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 now.

You have to set up a new category(s). All direct subforums to this category(s) will be arranged in columns.
It can be very usefull if you have very much Subforums, so you haven't to scroll as much as you have before

Newest Version: 1.21
Known Bugs: none

Screenshots below.

Design can be changed in templates..

[omegauk]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=277106" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attac...&postid=277106</a>

[Tes One]

...and that Catagory ID has to be set as a Catagory and not a Forum correct?

[Xenon]

no it can also be a normal forum, it just must have subforums, which are shown as columns then

[influence]

mine shows weird. any help? http://board.rapflava.com

[Preech]

attachment doesnt work

[Xenon]

works perfect here...

check your browser..

[amykhar]

Interesting. It doesn't seem to work on private categories. I installed it, tried it on my admin forums, nothing. Changed the options to a public category, and it worked.

[Xenon]

really?

hmm weird, normally there shouldn't be any difference AFAIK the vb-code..

maybe i have to take a look at it on this issue..

[amykhar]

Never mind. Doh. I have the forumhome cache installed. My front page was cached.

[Xenon]

*gggg*

ok, that would have been really wierd

[Bad Bunny]

Thank you, Xenon. It works wonderfully. Everything was perfect.
And you give ALOT of room for creativity and customization.

[Xenon]

[high]* Xenon enjoys to hear that [/high]

[drives fast]

would it be possible to do this same thing to forum display instead of forumhome?

I am making a classifieds modification to my site by creating a forum (like normal) then creating subforums. The subforums become the categories (that I create) and the end result looks like this:


but I really want them to look like this:


this is what the list of ads in the category looks like:


this is what the ad looks like once posted:


granted, this is very basic looking since it is in the earliest stages of just template edits but I would really like to be able to change the arrangement in the first pic to look like the second pic bad without it affecting the rest of my site if anyone can help.

P.S.
I downloaded my default style and uploaded it as a new style and told my classifieds forum to use that style only to be able to make so many template changes without screwing up the rest of the site.

thanks for any help in advance.

[drives fast]

please?

[drives fast]

is it possible to modify this to affect forumdisplay instead of forumhome?

[Xenon]

the makeforumbit functions are identically afaik
so just copy them from index.php into forumdisplay.php

[drives fast]

I tried that but since my classifieds forum that I create subforums in (to become the categories) isn't a category.....nothing happens

[drives fast]

well...let me say this....I looked closely at the hack and I applied the hack to the forumdisplay.php instead of index.php (making sure to leave where it refers to forumdisplay instead of forumhome) but my classifieds is a forum instead of a category.....inside that forum is where I have subforums (these are the categories) and inside those is where members can post their ads (new threads)

but I am thinking that since the calssifieds is not a category is why this didn't work?

do you know of a quick mod to make it work the way I am trying to do it?

[Xenon]

hmm, i don't know then.

that's why i haven't clicked on give support to this hack, it's quite complicated as i realized

maybe for vb3 this would be easier to do, so i'll code the hack into vb3 and look how it'll work for forumdisplay.php

[drives fast]

thanks

[stangpower]

I tried this with 2.2.9 and it did not work for me.

Ian

[Mr L]

Great hack here, pretty much what I was looking for.

However, would it be possible to add additional columns like I have in the mock up screen shot I've shown?

Unfortunatly, I don't have the skills to do this so would need somebody to help!

Thanks...

[Mr L]

Xenon,

Sorry to "bump" this thread, just wondering if it would easilly be possible to adapt this hack as shown in the screenshot above.

Thanks.

[Xenon]

i don't support this hack any longer as you could see above the thread, because of a lot changes posted in this thread by other users, and i don' have time to work on any customizations.

your image above looks like its just a template mod.

set the cols to 2 and edit the col forumbit template to look like that.

[Pollo]

01-03-03 at 10:30 AM Tes One said this in Post #159
Ok, maybe I'm just missing something but I believe I have this hack installed correctly on a 2.2.9 board and it is simply not showing up for me. I did the queries, added the templates and made the mods to the index.php and I'm coming up with nothing.

Tes

03-21-03 at 12:46 AM stangpower said this in Post #181
I tried this with 2.2.9 and it did not work for me.

Ian

I have 2.2.9 and am wondering if this works with version or not? I'd also like to upgrade to 2.3.0 sometime, and if it works on that version as well?

[Xenon]

my testboard works with 2.2.9 currently and there it works

i haven't tested it myself on 2.3.0 but as there are no changes in index.php as i remember, it should also work there

[egn]

great hack, thanks!

[Pollo]

04-29-03 at 06:20 PM Xenon said this in Post #186
my testboard works with 2.2.9 currently and there it works

i haven't tested it myself on 2.3.0 but as there are no changes in index.php as i remember, it should also work there

Thanks for the reply, will test it out!

[Doubledoom]

got this installed on my 2.3.0 board. Needed the Mr.P version of the hack as my forum template has gaps between the catagories.

Edited the colforumtableheader to allow the addition of the header to the boxes and put my own colforumbit code in place to suit my template style.

Thanks for the hack and the additions contained within the thread. (anyone want to see what i have done can visit www.new-version.org.uk )

[kevinnguyen]

how did u get it work? cuz i installed it on my 2.3.0 board and the forum template has gaps between the forum category too
it doesnt work w/ me

[croft]

Yeah this is messing up my 2.3.0 to =(

Im having a bit of problem with the index.php myself here =(

Im looking for this code

PHP Code:

global $DB_site,$bbuserinfo,$iforumcache,$ipermcache,$imodcache,$session,$accesscache,$usergroupdef,$noperms;
global $showlocks,$hideprivateforums,$showforumdescription,$forumhomedepth,$dateformat,$timeformat,$enableaccess;
global $bbforumview; 


But i cant find the

PHP Code:

global $bbforumview; 


Where is that or how do i fix this ?

[joeboo]

just put whatever u need to add after

PHP Code:

global  $DB_site,$bbuserinfo,$iforumcache,$ipermcache,$imodcache,$session,$accesscache,$
usergroupdef,$noperms; 
global  $showlocks,$hideprivateforums,$showforumdescription,$forumhomedepth,$dateformat,
$timeformat,$enableaccess; 


It worked for me.

[Hypey]

I'm using a 2.3.2.. When I load the main forum page, well, nothing loads LOL its completly blank o_O I think it must be the Index.php.. Anyone had a similar problem?

[dniMTheory]

I got this to wrk in 2.30. It should work in 2.32 also I would think.

I used a combo of Mr. P's version and Xenon's version

For colforumtableheader i modified my "forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost" template a little and pasted it. It works fine with my style(ekko) but I couldnt use the variables, I had to hard code the forum title and link.

[kid_ttvn]

soory!

File index.php of me: no have this code:
global $bbforumview;

only have:
global $DB_site,$bbuserinfo,$iforumcache,$ipermcache,$imo dcache,$session,$accesscache,$ usergroupdef,$noperms;
global $showlocks,$hideprivateforums,$showforumdescriptio n,$forumhomedepth,$dateformat, $timeformat,$enableaccess;

Help me

[Blindchild02]

did anyone ever get the modifications so you can add your own images like wiredgamers??

also.. how do u add lines between each one

heres mine www.xamira.net - look at showcase.

[X-Fan]

Is it possible to have this working on forumdisplay as well as index?

I also have the category sponsors hack installed, and here's that section of code from my index.php:

PHP Code:

if ($forum['sponsorimg'] && $forum['cancontainthreads']==0 && $depth==1) {
         eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost_sponsor")."\";");
        } else {
//         eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";");
        if(strstr(" ".$columnparent." ", " ".$forum['parentid']." ")) {
         if($colsdone!=1) {
            $colsdone=1;
            $colcounter=1;
            eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("colforumtableheader")."\";");
         } else {
            $colcounter++;
            if($colcounter%($forumcols+1)==0) {
             $forumbits .= "</tr><tr>";
             $colcounter=1;
            } 
         } 
         $width="width=".(100/$forumcols)."%"; //take out if you want variable column widths 
         eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("colforumbit")."\";");
        } else {
         if($colsdone==1) {
            $colsdone=0;
            $colcounter=0;
            eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("colforumtablefooter")."\";");
         }
         eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";");
        }
        }
        if ($depth<$forumhomedepth) {
         $forumbits.=makeforumbit($forum['forumid'],$depth+1,$forumperms);
        }
     } // END if can view
    } // END while ( list($key2,$forum)=each($val1) ) {
} // END while ( list($key1,$val1)=each($iforumcache["$forumid"]) ) { 


Is that right?

Thanks for the hack!

[assassingod]

Originally Posted by Hogwarts

hmm it want's me to find this:

$templatesused='forumhome_birthdaybit,error_nopermission,forumhome_pmloggedin,forumhome_welcometext,forumhome_logoutcode,forumhome_newposts,forumhome_todayposts,forumhome_logincode,forumhome_loggedinuser,forumhome_loggedinusers,forumhome_lastpostby,forumhome_moderator,forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost,forumhome_forumbit_level1_post,forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost,forumhome_forumbit_level2_post,forumhome,forumhome_unregmessage';

and it wants me to find it in index.php I am running vB2.3.2 and I see nothing like this at all, anyone have an idea?

It's there. Search harder by using bits of that code.

Alternativly, its on line 4

yeah I noticed, ... I was looking at my phpnuke index, im an idiot!

- Hogwarts