Forum Headers Hack

The idea for this hack came from the desire to increase forum traffic. What I wanted to do was subscribe individual forums into webrings. The problem was each forum would have to have the webring code within that forum page.

So I began writing this with the idea of just enabling webrings for a forum, but saw that it would just as easily be useful for adding custom HTML headers to individual forums.

What this hack does is allow you to specify an HTML code as a header for a specific forum. From the Admin CP, you specify whether a forum should have a forum header, if it should be guest only or not (I didn't want to bother registeres users with the webring banner), and then a text box for entering in the HTML

You can view a sample forum header at my site:
http://www.fasherman.com/forums/foru...php?forumid=27

I've also included a screen shot of AdminCP

[Imprezer]

What is Forum Icon hack? I cannot find it. Please help!

[GZ_Tanis]

Ok I went in and took out all that sanity check stuff. I am presently using this on my 2.3.0 board and it is working perfectly.

[Imprezer]

Thank you! I will try that as I am getting some errors.

[floridaideal]

Can anyone please tell me if its possible for this hack to add a 'vb logo' for each forum? That would be so cool if it could.

Also when I installed this I found if any of the text I included had a ' in it then it would cause a database error....just something some of you might want to look out for.

Thanks

Stu

[GZ_Tanis]

Today at 12:26 PM floridaideal said this in Post #44
Can anyone please tell me if its possible for this hack to add a 'vb logo' for each forum? That would be so cool if it could.

Also when I installed this I found if any of the text I included had a ' in it then it would cause a database error....just something some of you might want to look out for.

Thanks

Stu

Florida I know some people have posted examples but I didnt quite understand what this really did until I finally go tthis hack to work on my boards if you want to see what it does just after an install you can go here to this board and see what it adds. First go to our main page www.gzleagues.com/forum and see the top banner it says GZLeagues Private forum now go to this forum

http://gzleagues.com/forum/forumdisp...?s=&forumid=17

as you can see the top banner has changed into the Mechwarrior 4 banner. I had to go in and redo some coding to make just that banner show but I think you can get an idea of what this can do.

[Threshold]

04-10-03 at 11:21 PM GZ_Tanis said this in Post #42
Ok I went in and took out all that sanity check stuff. I am presently using this on my 2.3.0 board and it is working perfectly.

Thanks!

I am assuming your version of this hack is one based on "clean" code then?

[Okiewan]

Any idea what would make 2 headers/footers show up? Meaning, the main header is still there, with the forum specific header inside it... ??? It won't remove the original header/footer.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose... I'm assuming this was intended to replace the header/footer ... seems more like it just allows you to enter some info in the forumdisplay... my bad.

I'm looking for something to assign different styles (header/footer) the "complete" header and footer.

Basically, if this hack could be modified to remove $header and $footer from forumdisplay IF a custom header and footer is inserted in the specific forum edit, it would be killer.

[stamos2003]

gives me an error when i try to post complex html headers:

mysql error number: 1064

Invalid SQL: UPDATE forum
SET and here follows the html code i want to put.

any ideas ?!

when i set the same html code through phpmyadmin then it works.....

[stamos2003]

4get, was a hacking error

[pdatoon]

I'm not quite sure to understand if this hack will allow me to have customize categories headers? Like this : http://www.homedigitalandco.com/pdaforum/

Or this is just customized headers for each forum category?