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]

I installed hack and created a category with 4 forums, now when I enter the Category Id in the control panel and save all the 4 forums disssapear and you can only see the actual category alone, any ideas whats wrong?

[Zachariah]

Great,
This is a must in all large forums.

Q: Absolute values would be cool on the columns.(word-wrap in the cell)

EX: Our site is set at 760px with 3 columns = about 254px a column. This is great, but with the current coding if a forum name is longer than that set value the cell will stretch vs. word-wrap. This intern destroys alignment of another parent forum.

As seen below in Parent Forum 2 the 2nd forum name because it is longer kills the alignment. Is there a math variable we could add to keep this from happening?

Parent 1

|small name|small name|small name|

Parent 2

|small name|larger names|larger name|

[kira]

Installed without a problem. What a clever solution for admins with a lot of related subforums! Thanks!

[omegauk]

Anyone know why this error?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/alex/public_html/muscle/index.php on line 746

[Hooper]

Just installed 2.2.6 and the hack worked. It does not work with 2.2.7 at this point.

Thank you,

[Hooper]

Originally posted by Smoothie
should/could those queries be run separately, or together?

Seperate. There are a few posts on this because most copy and paste without looking real close. I did the same before I noticed the two queries. You must run the queries seperate or you will get errors.

[Smoothie]

Thanks, and i did run them separately. Didn't have much luck though. Out of the 4 styles on my board, only one looked right. The other 3 were messed.

[Hooper]

Yeah. I pretty much gave up on it. Mine was way out of wack as well. Great idea and a nice hack, just seems to be less work to code the templates as needed by hand at this point. Plus, I believe the hack will need some modification to work correctly with 2.2.7. The new vBulletin version has much needed fixes. With a couple of my imported style sets and 2.2.6 it looked fine, but with the others it was going to take quite a bit of fixing.

[omegauk]

Can anyone help me here, my image is coming up with this funny line around and I need to remove the little text at the top right, posts, threads,last post. See the Red circles:

[Rose]

Originally posted by omegauk
Can anyone help me here, my image is coming up with this funny line around and I need to remove the little text at the top right, posts, threads,last post. See the Red circles:

Are you referring to a border inside the img tag?



Thanks for this hack - it's great! I have it running smooth at www.thesistersthree.com/forums > see the "casting couch" section.