Forum Home Enhancements - Extra forumbit controls

This adds 4 mini icons (famfam) corresponding to each forum on forumhome and forumdisplay (subforums)

DEMO1
DEMO2

The 4 controls added are:-

Read new Posts
Create a new thread
Subscribe to Forum
RSS Feed


1. First upload the 4 attached icons in images/misc/ folder.

2. Then in Forum Home Templates/forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

Find this:

<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]" >

Add below:-

<div style="float:right">
<a href="search.php?do=getnew&f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/newposts.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Read New Posts" /></a>

<a href="newthread.php?do=newthread&f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/newthread.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Create a New Thread" /></a>

<a href="subscription.php?do=addsubscription&f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/subscribe.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Subscribe" /></a>

<a href="external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/rss.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="RSS feed" /></a>
</div>

3. Then in Forum Home Templates/forumhome_forumbit_level1_post

Find this:

<td><img src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" alt="" width="9" height="1" border="0" /></td>
			<td width="100%">

Make the change in the above code (in red) and add below:-

<div style="float:right">
<a href="search.php?do=getnew&f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/newposts.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Read New Posts" /></a>

<a href="newthread.php?do=newthread&f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/newthread.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Create a New Thread" /></a>

<a href="subscription.php?do=addsubscription&f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/subscribe.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Subscribe" /></a>

<a href="external.php?type=rss2&forumids=$forum[forumid]"><img src="images/misc/rss.png" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="RSS feed" /></a>
</div>

Thats it!

a) Obviously, works in all vb versions!
b) Yes, it is XHTML valid.
c) If this has been released before, then sorry.

If you like it, please click Install and join my site too

Thanks

Source: http://tech6.com/f51/extra-forumbit-controls-t549/

[R1lover]

Very nice but your site is extremely slow......

[Quantnet]

Google's Chrome does not show this properly. Firefox shows fine.
The spanning 100% on the level 2 does not affect the Chrome browser

[skylab]

Perfect. Thanks!
Just noticed what you said about chrome. I'll have to test this out on chrome then.

[sctsnipe]

when I did this, my forums links are no longer links. just black text


edit://nvm

[Zacaretas]

This is a great mod, veenuisthebest!

I love it because not only is it useful, but it also adds some filler to the clear space that was once there, giving the forum a neat and not-so-bland look

Thank you!

[Indyaboard]

thanks a lot!

[zelnik]

Hi, firstly lovely addition to vB

I have a concern though.. I do not want my moderator section having RSS as if I were to ever remove a Moderator then they would still be getting the RSS feed for the section. No?

How do I disable it for a specific section on my forum?

Thanks

[veenuisthebest]

Originally Posted by zelnik

Hi, firstly lovely addition to vB

I have a concern though.. I do not want my moderator section having RSS as if I were to ever remove a Moderator then they would still be getting the RSS feed for the section. No?

How do I disable it for a specific section on my forum?

Thanks

So you do not want the RSS icon to display for any moderator (staff) forum, is that all what you want?

You can wrap the rss icon code with a conditional

<if condition="$forum['forumid'] != X"></if>

where X is the forum ID.

Let me know if it works, you forgot to mark as installed btw.

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

So you do not want the RSS icon to display for any moderator (staff) forum, is that all what you want?

You can wrap the rss icon code with a conditional

<if condition="$forum['forumid'] != X"></if>

where X is the forum ID.

Let me know if it works, you forgot to mark as installed btw.

I had not installed it until now and I have noticed that I get a blank screen for the 2 non public sections when I click on the RSS icon (mods and site news section) so I assume it will only generate an RSS feed for public forums/sections so that would stop it anyway.

But is the above method better than just having a blank screen?

PS: the if condition removes the rss icon so that works, but I'm wondering if it is possible to show up a msg saying that no rss feed is available on the other private (not accessible to guests) forums instead of a blank white screen?

[zelnik]

Also there is a minor error in your instructions :

Find this:

Code:
<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]" >

it should be :

<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">