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This hack allows you to design dynamic vb templates which change themselves according to different conditions. Thus you can customize your board very powerfully with "intelligent/interactive" templates. It uses the same "conditional concept" just like my Webtemplates and Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack. With conditionals you can program your templates to:

be displayed differently to different users.

hide/display some part/texts/html codes/even the entire template for some users

include extra text/HTML codes/secret messages inside which will be displayed if page visitor matches your pre-configured criterias

Have multi-templates inside 1 template and each of them will be parsed and displayed only if their set condition applies.

You can program your templates according to many different criteria, such as:

user's userid
user's usergroup
user's profile fields' input
user's post number
user's last visit time
user's seniority (register date)
today's date, day, month, week, year, hour, second, if today is user's birthday
user's is visibility status
style id user's using
user's cookie status
user's time settings
(in forumdisplay templates) forum id
(in showthread templates) thread id
etc.

Some practical examples about what you can do with this hack:

You can have different postbit templates for different users/usergroups.
Display your board differently to the user if it's his birthday, if he is X, if he age <Y, if he didnt visit your board since Z etc.
Display Admin Only Profile fields/or any profile fields in postbit if X condition applies
You can hide Admin only links in your templates such as "Show IP".
Disable Email/Pm User links in postbit or userprofile screen if reader is from usergroup X etc.
Send different email text to different users according to different criteria. Add hidden email texts if X condition applies
Hide "register" link if user is not a guest, add access to pm if user is not a guest
Ban some templates if X condition applies such as dont display profile screens if user's X profile field = Y
Disable some forums if today is X day or hour is Y
Dont display thread view/user count/last reply date if user's usergroup is X
Hide threads according to different criteria in showthread templates

Well there are literally millions of possibilities you can apply, so please use your imagination for more examples..

The Hack's Features:

Installation is VERY easy: Actually 2 steps in 1 file will take less than 1 minute..You will be surprised how such a small modification will make such a big difference in your board.
It's compatible with ALL vb versions I know
The hack covers all the templates in your database: ie. custom templates, ALL vbulletin templates including even emails and error messages etc.
It's fully compatible with all your installed hacks and their custom templates too.
It makes many small hacks obsolete because you can now modify your templates to achieve the same result instead of hacking your board (=changing .php files)

Vbulletin v.3 has been announced to have "conditional" concept in templates, however my hack wasn't inspired by it at all, because I'm using the conditionals in my Webtemplates hack since March 2002 so in fact vb developers might be inspired by me.

My Dynamic Forum Announcements hack uses the same concept for forum home announcements too.. (Wait for my other hacks depending on conditionals cause I really like them, they are really powerful and customizable)

Performance Issues
The hack does NOT add any MYSQL connections. It just process your already retrieved templates in a function to parse the hack conditionals. Thus the performance is IMO quite bearable. However please notice that if a template has a conditional in it, the hack have to parse it before displaying it and technically this parsing is done with PHP's preg_match command which is known as a powerful but slow command. So does it cause any performance problems? In most cases no. But if the conditionals are applied in a very frequently used and/or long template and/or you used too many conditionals in one template AND your traffic or server load is high, this MAY increase your PHP processing time whenever this template is displayed as the hack has to deal with the conditionals everytime this template is called. I suggest applying Teck's Microstat's hack and observe the PHP running time with that hack after you applied a conditional especially in a frequently used template (eg. postbit). If it slows down the display, simply reduce your conditional count in that template or delete the conditional or remove the hack altogether. Personally I dont have any performance problems in my own board related to this hack but just wanted to give my 2 cents anyway especially for high-traffic boards..

If you liked the hack (I guess you will), I strongly suggest checking out my Webtemplates hack which provides exactly the same feature for your NON-VB pages.

Also please click INSTALL if you use the hack, thank you..

09.Sep.2002 Bug Fix: If you installed the hack before 09.Sep.2002 please download the instructions again and reapply step 2, since I made an update for a small bug fix. There was a variable name collision which causes a problem with email validation screen which uses the same variable so I changed my variable's name. If you are downloading the hack now, go ahead.. The code you download is already fixed..
07.Oct.2002 UPDATE: I updated the hack code, so that people who have enabled template debugging in their Admin CP/vb Settings can also use the hack. Also small modification applied to increase template parsing time. If you installed the hack before my update, you may choose to reinstall (not necessary). If you are a new hack user, the instructions you download is already new version's.

Enjoy!
Logician \\=^))

Kars10 · #**162** 03-20-2003, 07:47 PM

@ Logician, is there a way to make a condition for Forumhome Moderators?
I want to add the moderators under Forum-description like here on vb.org [moderated by: xxx, xxx, xxx].
But when the forum isn´t moderated the [moderated by: xxx] is gone... is there a way to do this with this hack??

Thanks in advance
Kars

Logician · #**163** 03-21-2003, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Yesterday at 11:47 PM Kars10 said this in Post #161
@ Logician, is there a way to make a condition for Forumhome Moderators?
I want to add the moderators under Forum-description like here on vb.org [moderated by: xxx, xxx, xxx].
But when the forum isn?t moderated the [moderated by: xxx] is gone... is there a way to do this with this hack??

Thanks in advance
Kars

Not tested but building up a conditional depending on $moderator[userid] variable should do the trick. eg.

[[($moderator[userid])]]
Moderated by:....
[[/($moderator[userid])]]

Kars10 · #**164** 03-21-2003, 08:53 AM

@ Logician, do you mean i should place this codition in forumhome_forumbit_level2_post with the userids of my moderators? Can you show me a examble, please?

Thanks
Kars

Boofo · #**165** 03-21-2003, 08:57 AM

I tried that one and a few others and could never find one that worked. I ended up having to put code in the index.php to catch it.

Logician · #**166** 03-21-2003, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Today at 12:57 PM Boofo said this in Post #164
I tried that one and a few others and could never find one that worked. I ended up having to put code in the index.php to catch it.

ok please give the code then so that Kars can use it too

Code hacking is a better solution in this example anyway since forumhome templates are usually long and frequently called templates. So apply the hack into the code is more performance friendly than applying into the template, especially for large traffic boards..

Kars10 · #**167** 03-21-2003, 10:09 AM

Thanks Logician!!
I have PM?t Boofo about that!!

Kars

Boofo · #**168** 03-21-2003, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Today at 05:56 AM Logician said this in Post #165

ok please give the code then so that Kars can use it too

For you, Sinan, gladly.

Quote:

Code hacking is a better solution in this example anyway since forumhome templates are usually long and frequently called templates. So apply the hack into the code is more performance friendly than applying into the template, especially for large traffic boards..

I didn't know that. My forumhome templates are pretty coded up with your conditionals. I might have to take a look at some of them. Thanks.

Mr. Brian · #**169** 03-22-2003, 05:12 PM

Hi Logician,

Thanks for your reply, but omehow I still getting the same error.

Quote:

03-19-03 at 04:05 PM Logician said this in Post #160
I say check step 1.. After you applied it, the line should look like this:

PHP Code:

//Logician Advanced Templates Hack if (substr_count($template,'[[/(')>=1) {$template = advanced_templates($template);} //Logician Advanced Templates Hack if ($gethtmlcomments and $addtemplatename) {

Not like this:

PHP Code:

//Logician Advanced Templates Hack if (substr_count($template,'[[/(')>=1) {$template = advanced_templates($template);} //Logician Advanced Templates Hack if ($gethtmlcomments and $addtemplatename) {

More info here

Thats exactly what I did.

Logician · #**170** 03-22-2003, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Today at 09:12 PM Matthew Lam said this in Post #168
Hi Logician,

Thanks for your reply, but omehow I still getting the same error.

You are using notepad for editing, right?

Mr. Brian · #**171** 03-23-2003, 02:21 PM

Ya, last time I used to use notepad. But I've already no longer using notepad but using editplus instead. :bored:

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