Unique Forum Header Including Parent Forums

FireFly told me to post it and its semi based on his code.

it tries to use its own forumid if it doesn't use it then it tries the parent one and so forth and if it doesn't find one then it uses the default one.

open global.php

look for

PHP Code:

eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";"); 


replace with

PHP Code:

if (substr($PHP_SELF, -strlen('forumdisplay.php')) == 'forumdisplay.php') {
  $forumid = intval($forumid);
  $foruminfo = verifyid('forum',$forumid,1,1);
  $parentlist = explode(",", $foruminfo["parentlist"]);
  $header = '';
  for ($i=0; $i<count($parentlist) and empty($header); $i++) {
    eval("\$header = \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_header".$parentlist[$i])."\";");
  }
  if($header == '') {
    eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
  }
} else {
  eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
} 


now create a new template called forumdisplay_headerFORUMID where Forumid is the forumid you wish to have the banner for, though this will also affect child forums unless they have their own.

[Dade]

Excellent hack oh master of hacking

Do you by any chance have a demo or screenshot available?

[Scott MacVicar]

em there is no demo :P

it would just change the header at the top....

[Floris]

I can't imagine how this would look, but I do not wish to alter any files prior to the hack, could anybody who applied this please post a screenshot?

This hack sounds like one I am looking for, just wanna be sure

[Psychdrone]

well my guess is it would look like Vb, header

notice how it switches between banners

Thanks so much Pnn, this is simpile but grand!!

[Scott MacVicar]

PPN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**hits Psychdrone**

[drives fast]

I accomplished this same thing by creating (more than one) new templates and naming them whatever. The parsed them and then edited the appropriate templates replacing $header with the new template names.

A bit more time consuming but effective

great job folks

[Lionel]

I think it is good to have the flexibility to customize forums individually. You could theme an entire forum. Great hack. that was the only functionality that I was missing from UBB.

[Psychdrone]

Originally posted by PPN
PPN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**hits Psychdrone**

right.........PPn
In my book you will always be Pnn

[Lionel]

can this hack be extended to include showthread.php for that particular forum? The idea is to sell the new header to a sponsor, but with all the different news hacks or the different ways to access a thread directly without having to enter forum, some people will never see the new header.