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]

FASherman-

Any chance of getting that code posted?

[Dean C]

this is awesome.. didn't realise what this did til now

*goes to install*

[Smoothie]

Find:

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO forum
(forumid,styleid,title,description,active,displayo rder,parentid,
parentlist,allowposting,cancontainthreads,iconimg,
daysprune,newpostemail,newthreademail,
moderatenew,allowhtml,allowbbcode,allowimages,allo wsmilies,allowicons,
styleoverride,allowratings,countposts,moderateatta ch,forumnewsid)
VALUES
(NULL,'$styleset','".addslashes($title)."','".adds lashes($description)."','$isactive','$displayorder ','$parentid',
'','$allowposting','$cancontainthreads','".addslas hes($iconimg)."',
'$daysprune','".addslashes($newpostemail)."','".ad dslashes($newthreademail)."',
'$moderatenew','$aallowhtmlcode','$aallowbbcode',' $aallowimgcode','$aallowsmilies','$aallowicons',
'$styleoverride','$allowratings','$countposts','$m oderateattach','$forumnewsid')");

Ok this part I can find in my admin/forums.php, but not all of what's above is there, specifically: iconimg, forumnewsid, '".addslashes($iconimg) and this '$forumnewsid')"); Same with step 7. Can someone help? i know that these need to be removed from the repace part, but what exactly should the replace code look like? Need step 5 and step 7 replace code. thanks!

[Dark Waltz]

can I use this to add a different logo to each forum on my board?

[N9ne]

Dark Waltz: yes you can.

[floridaideal]

How can I add a different vb logo on each of the forums please? This would complete the great hack, just installed it and had to remove a little extra code but its working great now.

Just need to know how to edid the logo and buttons.

Thanks

Stu

[ricoche]

Hi there,

Today I just finished installing this hack and I must say I'm very impressed and excited about it. It works very well and I've already created a layout in the header for my Flash Gallery Menu and Forum Jump links. It works beautifully. Thanks so much for a nice hack. It really allows me to create and experiment with new things.

I did encounter one strange thing that I apparently fixed. On my site I run multiple themes, such as Ravio, Ekko, Emerge etc. When I installed this I used the Ravio and Ravio Blue skins to test the hack. I found that when using image files for category headers it leaked into to other category headers in the forum and in my vbportal. The background images had the same name "catbg.gif" but were in different folders and were different images. So I just renamed them to different names and it corrected the problem. Sorry, but that might be difficult to understand <LOL>

Anyway, great hack. I'm really going to enjoy this. I attached a screen shot if anyone wants to see how I started using this hack for my site.

Thanks again,

Ricoche :bunny:

[gynot67]

Ok, first off, fantastic work!!
This is one step away from being exactly what I needed.
Got it all installed and running beautifully, however does anyone know how I can go about making this javascript friendly?
I'm looking to stick a banner rotation in a particular forum

[Figment]

Wow!!!

[firas]

i like it but i don't have the icon hack so would you please tell me what to do exactly