The "Make Stickies Bold / Prefix Remove" Hack

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Make Stickies Bold Hack
By Shaolyen
email: John@eovie.com
msn: John@eovie.com
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Introduction
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Ok, just a quick one as per the request here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=49935
Nothing special I'm afraid - it simply gets rid of the "Sticky:"
prefix and makes the thread title bold instead.

It has its uses - I've been driven mad by the number of times
I've been asked what a "Sticky" is, at least now they see the bold
text and know it's an important thread.

Sticky behavior is unchanged (they still stay at the top, lol)
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A big thanks to Link14716 for pointing out my stupidity!

It's fairly simple, I can't see there being many problems with this one. Tested on vB 2.3.0, fresh install.

[John]

There are loads of things you could do with the sticky title.

The hardest part of making a hack like this is finding the code to edit!

[Gary King]

The simple way to do it could be to just make the Sticky prefix: <b>

But of course it won't have a closing tag, but hey, it saves time

[jamslam]

Here's just a small addon if you wish to have the sticky prefix with a colored/bold/italic thread title...

In forumdisplay.php find

      if ($thread[sticky] == 1) {
         $thread[typeprefix]=$stickythreadprefix.$thread[typeprefix];
      }

replace it with...

      if ($thread[sticky] == 1) {
         $thread[typeprefix]=$thread[typeprefix].$stickythreadprefix;
		 $thread[title] = "<font color=red>$thread[title]</font>";
	  }

Just in case you were wondering how to do it. You can of course put anything instead of the <font color=red>

remember to use \" for quotes!

[gmarik]

Hey, I wanted to ask you - can I have a prefix to choose from a drop down box, so it add's it to the thread? Can you post the little piece of code here too?

Thanks, Marco

[M.C.]

and small addition! If you want show special icon for sticky thread just do that:

in forumdisplay.php find:

PHP Code:

if ($foruminfo[allowicons] and $thread[pollid]!=0) { 
        $thread[icon]='<img src="{imagesfolder }/poll.gif" alt="Poll" width="15" height="15" border="0">'; 
      } 


and below add:

PHP Code:

if ($foruminfo[allowicons] and $thread[sticky] == 1) { 
        $thread[icon]='<img src="="{imagesfolder }/icons/icon4.gif" alt="Sticky" width="15" height="15" border="0">'; 
      } 


Don`t foget remove space after {imagefolder }! You can change icon for other if you want

Luck

P.S. my fist kind of hack

[SBlueman]

Is there anything like this for 3.6.5 and above?