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. It is a plain port of my 3.0 version you can find here.

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

Right now, it's just working on forumhome.
I'll add changes for forumdisplay later

[Caiman]

Originally Posted by Cheertobi

Try to add the following variables in forumhome_forumbit_columncell

$forum[lastpostinfo] (Maybe you have to modify the forumhome_lastpostby template, to make it look nicer)
and
$forum[browsers]

Thanks, I wanted to show lastpostinfo a little differently in the columned forums than it is shown in those that remain normal, so I've lifted some functions from forumhome_lastpostby and chucked them in the new template and achieved what I wanted. Thanks for your help

Thanks again for the lovely hack, Xenon.

[Xenon]

I have uploaded a new version now.

The hack is no longer considered as beta, so you should all be able to use it
It's now using the vbulletin product system, to make the install much easier.

For those who have installed the Beta version, you have to manually drop the subforumcolumn field in forum table, before you can run the product xml file.

I'll send out an upgrade, once i have got positive feedback, that i didn't forgot something

[Borgs8472]

^ ^
Thanks!

/me will be upgrading asap

Updated hack installed, and is working great. Thanks again Xenon

[fridayweb]

I was trying to add in the old option from 3.0 where there was a radio select button where people could select columns or not. I did everything the same way that was described in 3.0 and it's not quite working. I was wondering if you had some updated changes that could fix that for this 3.5 hack? Thanks!

[Xenon]

I don't remeber of such a modification, but it should work quite similiar, just a few variables have changed, so you might reneame those whaen porting that mod.

[DJ XtAzY]

i cant wait till u have time to work on the forumdisplay version

[fridayweb]

Thank you for your quick response before, I know you're a busy person!

From Forums arranged in columns on forumhome (3.0.3):

Originally Posted by Xenon

as said create a new custom profile field just allowing yes/no as option, and afterwards open functions_forumlist.php

find:

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' AND $forum['subforumcolumns'] != 1 AND ($subsonly OR $depth < MAXFORUMDEPTH)) 


and change into

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['fieldxx'] == 'yes' AND THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' AND $forum['subforumcolumns'] != 1 AND ($subsonly OR $depth < MAXFORUMDEPTH)) 


replace the xx with the fieldid of your new custom field

that's all

Originally Posted by Xenon

glad you could solve it

oh yes, i know the second problem
i forgot to tell you, that you ahve to manipulate the template forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost as well.

find there

<if condition="$forum['subforumcolumns'] > 1">

and change it to

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['fieldxx'] == 'yes' AND $forum['subforumcolumns'] > 1">

I made those two conditional adjustments. On 3.0 it worked great for me, but on 3.5, this is what I'm seeing. The yescolumn.gif and the nocolumn.gif show you what my forum looks like. I've been playing with the fields and it's driving me crazy! (it's not a problem of the yes/no being case-sensitive or a wrong field number)

Oh and when I don't have the conditional in there, the columns work perfectly and I love them. I just know that some of my users want to have the 'old style' rows. If you could give me any advice, I'd really appreciate it. This is the last thing I need to fix for my 3.5 update and my forum will be ready.

Help me, Xenon. You're my only hope!

[Allan]

Click Install

but, i'm this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: construct_forum_columns() in /xxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxx/public_html/forum/includes/functions_forumlist.php on line 296

[Xenon]

@Allan: you missed a step during the installation:

then add this new function to the file:

Originally Posted by fridayweb

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['fieldxx'] == 'yes' 


should be:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['fieldxx'] == 'yes' 


then it should work.

Originally Posted by XtAzY

cant wait till u have time to work on the forumdisplay version

shouldn be too long

[Allan]

Not understand this:

replace the xx with the fieldid of your new custom field

Which custom field ???

[Xenon]

he is referring to an old addon, look into the 3.0 thread to find out

[Allan]

Originally Posted by Xenon

he is referring to an old addon, look into the 3.0 thread to find out

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=375

but not anderstand

I does not see the report with the hack, why creates one custom field ?

[fridayweb]

Xenon, that works PERFECT!!! Is there someway I can donate some money to you? Seriously, you just cured a four day headache for me! Much appreciated.

Allan, sorry to confuse you, I was asking about an old setup that would allow this to be user selectable. Check the other thread, and then make the small correction Xenon suggested above.

[Xenon]

@friday: well, you don't have to, but if you want, xenon@vbulletin.org is my paypal addy

@Allan: that mod was never officially added to the hack, it's normal for such sub addons