Forums arranged in columns on forumhome

As requested several times, this hack allows you to arrange forums on forumhome in xx columns instead of just one per row as it is in standart vb3.

Look at the screenshot to know what i mean

The design is changeable in the templates of course

I've tested it, and it should work, but as i don't use it myself, i cannot do a longtime test, so if you find any bugs, report them

You can apply the changes to forumdisplay as well if wanted

[Xenon]

it's spelled construct_forum_columns

[Okiewan]

Having some difficulty figuring this one out...
I use the category spacing mod, so my level_one_no_post looks like this:

<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
	<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead" width="30">&nbsp;</td>
	  <td class="thead" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="125">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
	  <td class="thead" width="100">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>
$childforumbits
<tr><td class="thead" style="line-height: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0;" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>"><img src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" alt="" width="1" height="12" /></td></tr>
</tbody>
</if>

Any idea how to combine these two mods?

[Xenon]

you just have to replace the $childforumbits with that

<if condition="$forum['subforumcolumns'] > 1">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
<table style="border: none; width: 100%;">
			$childforumbits
</table>
		</td>
	</tr>
<else />
	$childforumbits
</if>

[Okiewan]

Thanks for the reply!
Only one thing still wrong, see attachment.

[Xenon]

replace

<else />
	$childforumbits
</if>

with

<else />
<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead" width="30">&nbsp;</td>
	  <td class="thead" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="125">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
	  <td class="thead" width="100">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>
	$childforumbits
</if>

and remove the part i added from the other appearance..

[Okiewan]

and remove the part i added from the other appearance..

confused...? (sorry!)

[Xenon]

<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead" width="30">&nbsp;</td>
	  <td class="thead" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="125">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
	  <td class="thead" width="100">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>

that part should be removed from my first post and added to the place i told at the second post

[Okiewan]

Perfect... thanks for all the help

[Xenon]

you're welcome

[Indy]

I too have the separate catagory box hack and applied the fix you show above. Everything looks and works great however my expand and collapse buttons do not operate now for any of the catagories.

BTW, very nice hack indeed. This sure is going to save a lot of screen real estate for my forums when I get them updated!

Thanks!
Dan

Here is my level1_nopost code.

<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">

<if condition="$forum['subforumcolumns'] > 1">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
<table style="border: none; width: 100%;">
       
			$childforumbits
</table>
		</td>
	</tr>
<else />
	<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead" width="30">&nbsp;</td>
	  <td class="thead" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="240">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="55">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
	  <td class="thead" width="100">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>
$childforumbits

</if>
</tbody>
</if>

[Indy]

When I was pasting the code changes in, I duplicated the following code by not pasting on the correct line. :nervous:

Removed the dup code and I can now collapse/expand catagories.

Thanks!

<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">

[Indy]

To give the columnized catagory a similar look as my regular catagories, I added one small bit of code to the level1_nopost template.

<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">

<if condition="$forum['subforumcolumns'] > 1"> 
<tr>
    <td class="thead" width="100%">By Manufacturer</td>
</tr>

[Xenon]

nice additions

[surfhog]

forgive me for asking has the image addition part been written yet?

as i said in a previous post, i do like this modification and i am waiting for the image part LOL

[NTLDR]

The image is just a template conditional:

<if condition="$forum['forumid'] == X"><img src="x" alt ="zx" /></if>