Forum Display Enhancements - This Day In History ~ Changes Daily

This Day in History

Just a Little hack here which you can add to your Forums, Give you a bit of content which changes daily, Should keep your members amused.

You can use this code in a variety of places, If you want it at the top of your forum you can add it to your header like below...



or if you want to be a bit creative you can make a new category and add the code to the discription field, this is great if you want to break up your forum like this...



Content changes daily and your members can read up more about the Day in History directly at the http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ site.

So lets do it......

If you want to add the code to your header, or footer, simply go to your ACP > Style Manager > Your Style

and add this to either the Header or Footer

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:;padding:4px">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000">This Day in History</div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div></div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

If you want to add it within your forum, as a category type of insertion, just go to your ACP >Forums & Moderators > Add New Forum

In the title add : This Day In History

In the discription add the code below..

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:#FFFFFF">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000"></div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div></div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

Remember under Posting options select "NO" to "Act as Forum" This will keep it as a standalone category style.

*****************UPDATE**********************

If you wanted to add this as an insertion after each 1st post you could use the code below (See picture ) This will show it after each 1st post in threads



Just go to your ACP> Style Manager> Your Style> Edit Templates> Forum Display Template> Postbit Template > (then your chosen Positbit ~ either plain postbit or legecy)

Add this code to the very end of your postbit template

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID']"> 

$spacer_open 
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px"> 

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"> 
<tr> 
    <td class="thead" align="left">This Day in History</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
    <td class="alt1" align="center"> 
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:;padding:4px">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000">This Day in History</div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

</if> 
    </td> 
</tr> 
</table> 

</div> 
$spacer_close 

</if>

if you come up with alternative uses, feel free to share them here

Thats it

Enjoy

[UKBusinessLive]

Reserved

[TimberFloorAu]

weird... went to your forum, and my IP is banned lol.
*reserved*

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

weird... went to your forum, and my IP is banned lol.
*reserved*

PM me your IP add i'll check, had lots of probs with spammers as of late

[TimberFloorAu]

why ban IP's though.. for guest viewing ?

Surely some good captcha code upon registration would thwart spammers.

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

why ban IP's though.. for guest viewing ?

Surely some good captcha code upon registration would thwart spammers.

I don't just ban ip for guest viewing, i ban only for a reason, Perhaps your IP addy is on my Country Ban list, and thats there because of the amount of spambots that have been doing the curcuits lately.

The site is mainly UK Business Related So i really don't need Asian, Eastern Block or Russian members signing up

Nothing personal, Send me your IP and i'll make sure its cool

[GSeybold]

Works great for me.... Totally cool. Just have to figure out where to put it... I have it in my footer now but I think a forum would be better.

Thanks.. no problems with install.

[GSeybold]

I decided to use it as a forum, even off topic. It gets people talking.

[Bawtneez]

Very nice, thanks you =)

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by GSeybold

I decided to use it as a forum, even off topic. It gets people talking.

Thanks