Alternating Thread Rows

Just as the title says, this will allow you to alternate the thread row colors when viewing each forums' thread display (i.e. have each thread row alternate instead of having each cell alternate). I noticed this was requested a while back on vBulletin.com and had been asked before, so here it is .

I don't believe the same modification has been released for vBulletin 3.0 that I have been made aware of, though if such has been released, please feel free to make notice.

Installation takes all of 2 minutes and requires modification to only 1 file and 1 template.

[yoyoyoyo]

great hack, but unfortunately now it makes my "new posts" results shaded in, instead of the old way or alternating

[venomx]

Am I the only one who doesnt understand what this does? I looked at the images... they look the same to me color wise...

[AlienSector]

Originally Posted by venomx

Am I the only one who doesnt understand what this does? I looked at the images... they look the same to me color wise...

It will alternate row colors (via alt1 and alt2) instead of alternating every other cell in the row. One row will be set to alt1, the next alt2, the following alt1 and so forth.

[venomx]

Unless I am blind it already does that...

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by venomx

Unless I am blind it already does that...

rows
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alt1
-----------
alt2
-----------



default is column's

| alt1 | alt2 | alt1 |

[albireo]

Thanks for great hack. It works nicely in the forumdisplay. But in search result (of threadbit style), every class="$altclass" tag is changed as follows:

every class=" " [empty]

How can I solve this problem?

[Mythotical]

you can try it as class="$altclass" and see what happens or just leave it alone and wait for someone else to reply.

[fribs]

Originally Posted by albireo

Thanks for great hack. It works nicely in the forumdisplay. But in search result (of threadbit style), every class="$altclass" tag is changed as follows:

every class=" " [empty]

How can I solve this problem?

Here's what I did (3.0.8)- but be warned! I am no coder so this may trade one problem for another. At the moment though it is working for me:

In search.php
find:

// get info from thread
$thread = process_thread_array($thread, $lastread["$thread[forumid]"]);

			$itemcount++;

and below it add:

$altclass = ($row_count % 2) ? 'alt1' : 'alt2';

Then a few lines down find:

exec_switch_bg();
eval('$searchbits .= "' . fetch_template('threadbit') . '";');

and below it add:

$row_count++;

This fixed the search results for me, but like I wrote earlier, this may cause problems that I am not farsighted enough to see - but since it's been a good month since you asked the question then this should cause someone with more experience to speak up if it is problematic.

In my novice understanding adding the code to search.php populates the variable where before it was empty. In any case, thank you AlienSector for taking the time to release this, it's a really nice touch to have for those of us who don't speak fluent PHP.

Fribs