iPod-Hacking.com's mobile skin

iPod-Hacking.com's mobile skin V1.0.0

This is my first release of the skin that I have developing for my forum.

Live Board

The instillation for this board is a bit more elaborate due to the custom status icons.

Installation:
1) Upload the file in the folder names "put in root of fourm" to your forums root directory.
2) Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Download / Upload Styles -> Upload iPod-Hacking.com V1.0.0.xml
3) Configure the status icons*
4) Done!

Credits:
-- Status Icon's - Any Apple developers who's i used
-- Skin based off of ElForro iPhone skin
--Menu based off of Justins mobile skin
* the status icons are located in the put "in root of fourm/iPhone/statusicon" directory. All status icons are assigned by forum id.

Example
You have a forum named announcements. The forum ID to it is 12. You would Name the picture that you would like to assign to that forum 12.png

In order the find forum id look in the URL bar when inside that forum.

http://ipod-hacking.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=104

Notice how it end is f=104
The forum id to that forum is 104.
So in order to put a status icon next to it i would need to have a picture named 104.png in the statusicon folder

In the extras folder their are PSDs that can be used to create the status icons.
Status icons are in a 50X50 format.
The best way to achive that size is to open the rendericon.psd
Click on one of the boaders.
Resize the icon so that it fits in the boarder.
Click back on the boarder and go to Select>load section> load the boarder.
Click back on the icon and press the delete key.

That will delete any extra color around the icons making perfectly rendered icons. For best results its better to cut a little off the icons then make them to small.

[andreamarucci]

Thanks for this fantastic style. However you said

I will go threw and remove the hooks for my 1.1.0 release.

And since I've some Cyb mods and other mods on the regular board, I would like to know when you think to release this version because I would not want to mess up with the templates deleting things to make mods doesn't appear in the iphone style. Your idea to remove the hooks is correct so that if anyone would like to have the mods simply put the tag inside the template, otherwise should be better to have a theme without the hooks.

Thanks again...

[andreamarucci]

Another suggestion if possible. I think the the traditional method to display if the content of some forum is new or not it's better than having fixed icons like in this template. This way the user cannot see immediately if there are new post and where. Instead, with the traditional way, the user can see where the new messages are.

is there a way not to show the fixed icons and show the classic icons that are different if there are new messages or not?

thanks again

[andreamarucci]

Originally Posted by Jman423

[*] To fix the "Post Reply" button at the top of the thread, I had to edit the SHOWTHREAD template. I replaced the URL for the "largereplybutton" with the following (I also added another button to the bottom of the SHOWTHREAD template):

newreply.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newreply&noquote=1&p=$FIRSTPOSTID

I hope this helps someone out...

It helped me. Thank you very much!

[andreamarucci]

Last question. The quickreply box is showed but there's no way to make it work. in my forum it's necessary to click on the quick reply button to activate the field but I'm unable to find the correct link to copy and paste in the postbit template. Can you help?

[andreamarucci]

Mmmhh it's just an impression or it seems that noone is hanging out here?

[AshleyTwo]

I really like how it looks but there are a few things I am wondering if anyone knows how to change;

When viewing threads is there any way to introduce a "go to first unread post" button, like on a normal scheme? My forum has some large threads and I'm sure people wouldn't want to be scrolling all the way through them.

Thanks.

[thephoneclub]

How Could you disable the icon column forums?

[Alfa1]

After uploading the files and installing the forum style, I get a zillion of these:

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Offset not contained in string in [path]/includes/functions_forumlist.php(393) : eval()'d code on line 227

How can I fix this?

[exel]

Alfa1, you have any modifications installed?

[Alfa1]

Yes, many. But after review of this style, I choose not to use it. My site is too large for it. Each forums takes up a considerable amount of space in this style. So having 350 forums does not work well with it.