Forum Headers Hack

The idea for this hack came from the desire to increase forum traffic. What I wanted to do was subscribe individual forums into webrings. The problem was each forum would have to have the webring code within that forum page.

So I began writing this with the idea of just enabling webrings for a forum, but saw that it would just as easily be useful for adding custom HTML headers to individual forums.

What this hack does is allow you to specify an HTML code as a header for a specific forum. From the Admin CP, you specify whether a forum should have a forum header, if it should be guest only or not (I didn't want to bother registeres users with the webring banner), and then a text box for entering in the HTML

You can view a sample forum header at my site:
http://www.fasherman.com/forums/foru...php?forumid=27

I've also included a screen shot of AdminCP

[Smoothie]

Maybe you could post the code to find and replace without those 2 bits of code in there. That would be appreciated.

[FASherman]

Originally posted by Smoothie
Maybe you could post the code to find and replace without those 2 bits of code in there. That would be appreciated.

I will certainly do that. You'll have to forgive me. I've only been running VB for two weeks. Most of the things I wanted to do, I found here. This was something I wanted but didn't find, so I wrote it and posted it mostly as a way to pay back those who poted the other hacks I used. Giving back to the community, so to speak. But mostly, I'm still new to this.

[thedvs]

godamnit, i installed the header version fine, but when i reinstalled to include the footer too, only the footer shows up and not both! help

[FASherman]

What do your changed areas of code look like now?

[thedvs]

exactly as yours in the install text, except without the forumnewsid stuff in forum.php
i followed it exactly

[FASherman]

Okay, lets start with the low hanging fruit...

Are the header options Yes (to using) and No (to just guests)?

[thedvs]

ok its all fixed, i forgot to change the template DOH (slaps head)
apologies.

GREAT HACK, well done for all your work

[FASherman]

Post your url. I'd like to see how you used it!

[fonzerelli_79]

great hack

ive placed the header just under the announcement

have a peek

http://www.affiliate-talk.com/forumd...php?forumid=12

basically ive used it to give an explanation of each forum



:nervous:

[fonzerelli_79]

is there a way to place ' in the header or footer as at present it cant update the table with any links with a ' in it