[HowTo] Break posts up from eachother

[HowTo] Break posts up from eachother?
(but still keep the top/bottom post stick to top/bottom row)

What does this one do?
When you view a thread, it shows the first row, the posts, the last row; all sticking together. What we want is a space between the posts. But not a space between the first row and the first post, the last row and the last post. We only want to make a <br> between each individual post. I was not able to do this with a template modification, so I run crying to FireFly and he thought about it for 2,8sec. and gave me the following code to accomplish my wish. *respect*

Why did you make it?
Because vB didn't came with the option by default. And I think it looks pretty damn cool. After applying it to my board I got fan mail with requests on how to do this. I ignored most of them, and now the requests start on vB.com too. So I decided to publish it here. Please note that I am NOT the author of this little code hack, and that all credits should ofcourse goto FireFly.

• Instructions:
• Open the original vBulletin file "showthread.php" and find:
  (near line 425)
  

  $postbits .= getpostbit($post);

• Replace that with:
  

  $postbits .= iif(empty($postbits), '', '<br>').getpostbit($post);

• Save the file, upload it again and see if it worked.

Done!

Version?
Tested with vBulletin 2.2.5 (final) and it works just great! (I wouldn't know about older versions for sure, but it is pretty easy to undo, so doesn't hurt to check it out)

Support!
Feel free to click 'Installed' once you got it up and running on your board!

Tweak!
There were threads where users complained about the breaking showing up the page bground color instead of the main table background color. I fixed this on my new style by putting eveything in the header & footer in 1 new main table. Please keep in mind that if you have other designs etc, this might screw it up, but it works here.. so enjoy
header - at the top add :
<center>
<table bgcolor="{pagebgcolor}" width="{tablewidth}" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td>
footer - at the bottom add :
</td></tr></table></center>
Maybe it helps you too.


The Result
This is how it looks on my web site:

[K33nny]

<a href="http://ewplanet.com/e/showthread.php?postid=2" target="_blank">http://ewplanet.com/e/showthread.php?postid=2</a>

You may notice the break tag being visible between the posts. I'm in the process of constructing the forums so at times things will look extremely sloppy, don't mind that.

How do I fix that? Also, how would I break the categories on forumhome?

[K33nny]

Nevermind guys.

[Heineken77]

Nicely done!

Thanks

[NexDog]

Nice hack once again. I got most of yours now.

[Tyrant]

Is the same not achiveable without editing the showthread.php file? I think it is, heres what i did:

* Goto Templates > Modify > [expand list] > Postbit Templates [expand] > postbit [edit]

* Then find this:

<!-- spacer --></td><td width="10"><img width="10" height="1" src="images/space.gif" alt=""></td></tr></table>

* Now Insert this directly below it

<!--added spacer--> 
<table align="center"> 

<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100" height="10" align="center"></td> 

</table>
<!--/added spacer-->

Replace the bgcolour value with the your site's

[kmfdm_kid2000]

Sorry, had to uninstall, conflicted w/ no double posting hack...Looks nice cosmetically anyway Easy install too...

[FleaBag]

Works on 2.2.7. Thanks.

[Floris]

Yeah it does. I re-applied it to 227 yesterday when I took the time to upgrade, and had no errors what so ever. (ofcourse)

[FleaBag]

I love your little hacks, they make a big difference to the presentation of my forums.

[UnForums2k]

br in the template is alot easier, and this hack ddnt work on forum im usin 2.2.7 all well i still got it though