ALT Description on ForumDisplay Threads

ALT Description on Forum Display Threads!
An editing of PPN's 'Description of Thread' hack...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=38916

*NOTE* If you have PPN's version of his hack already installed, upgrade notes are at bottom.

I'm almost embarrased to call this hack, more of an addon, since it only changes a few things. All the credit in the world goes to PPN for this hack, and I just simply edited this.

What this hack does is adds a new 'Description' field to your New Thread page, where a user can put in a description and it will show up underneath the post subject on the forumdisplay.

Since some people don't like their tables being make longer, I did some more compacting and put the description into an alt, so when you put your mouse over the subject link on the Forum Display, a little dropdown appears with the thread description, rather then having it displayed underneath the link in text.

Here's a list of feature this hack has:

• New Description Field in New Thread allows user to make description for thread
• Description showed on Forum Display in drop down alt text (mouseover)
• Description can be edited in the Edit Thread admin options...
• Description can be deleted in Edit Thread admin options, when input box is left blank.

To do's:
- Add edit input box into edit post.

Installation Time:
1 minute for upgrade
10 minutes for manual install
4 minutes for original install, then upgrade.

*It is highly recommended you run PPN's vb hacker file for original hack, then use upgrade*

To upgrade from PPN's version to Alt Text Version:

In the 'forumdisplaybit' template...

Find this code:

<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$thread[threadid]">$thread[title]</a></normalfont>
<br><smallfont>$thread[description]</smallfont>

Replace with this code:

<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$thread[threadid]" title="$thread[description]">$thread[title]</a></normalfont>

It's that simple.

Thanks PPN for the awesome hack!

If you need the clean install, and want to edit all the files manually, a txt is attached with instructions. Otherwise, go to this thread, install his hack with the VB-Hacker, then come back and use the upgrade.

[traekwon]

Screenshot...

[RDX1]

cool cool, looks nice

[Dark Shogun]

It doesn't seem to work for me. The description box is under subject like it is supposed to be but when I hoover over the subject after posting it says thread[description].

Dark Shogun

[FleaBag]

When I do the template edit, it takes away the thread description and doesn't add the alt description. I already had the description hack installed. Any ideas?

[N!ck]

might want to check out my thread preview hack too

[traekwon]

Originally posted by Dark Shogun
It doesn't seem to work for me. The description box is under subject like it is supposed to be but when I hoover over the subject after posting it says thread[description].

Dark Shogun

Whoops! Sorry for the late reply, I totally forgot about this thread. I made a mistake while typing up the instructions but it's fixed now. Just add a $ before thread[description] to make '$thread[description]'.

[traekwon]

Originally posted by GamerForums
When I do the template edit, it takes away the thread description and doesn't add the alt description. I already had the description hack installed. Any ideas?

Double check to make sure you correctly edited the forumdisplaybit template so that it says 'title=$thread[description]' after the href link.