Arrange Sub-Forums in columns
Mod Version: 1.00, by tamarian
This modification is in the archives.
| vB Version: 3.5.1 | Rating:  (4 votes - 4.50 average) |
Installs: 122 |
| Released: 10 Jun 2005 | Last Update: 05 Aug 2005 | Downloads: 114 |
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Ported from 3.0.x.
What it does
This hack arranges sub-forums on the forum home into 2 columns, makeing large lists of sub-forums more presentable. You can see the before/after in the screenshots attached
Note:
1. You need to enable sub-forum display on the forum home from your vB admin panel
2. This hack is for the forum home page, not forum display.
To enable sub-forums on the forum home page
1. Go to your forum Admin panel
2. Click vBulletin Options
3. Select "Forum Listings Display Options" from the drop down list
4. In "Depth of Sub-Forums" replace 0 with 1
Installation
To install, edit the file includes/functions_forumlist.php
1. Find (there are two slightly different lines, differing by a space, the one in question is around line 552)
Place this code below it:
2. Find
Replace with
Template modification (optional)
As this hack will list the sub-forums in a table, the font used is not effected by the <div> tag for subforums, which will cause the default font to be used instead of smallfont.
To use smallfont for sub-forum names, edit the "forumhome_subforumbit_post"
Change (this is the whole template)
To:
And for those who want to edit or remove the "Sub-forum" word, just remove (or edit, if you just want to change it) "<strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>:" from the "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template.
handling of sub-forums.
3.6 plugin version by Cybernetec with more options:
Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager
3.5 plugin version by Atakan KOC: Arange Subforum
CSS/templates version by hpwilhelm:
CSS - Sub-Forum-List in Columns
What it does
This hack arranges sub-forums on the forum home into 2 columns, makeing large lists of sub-forums more presentable. You can see the before/after in the screenshots attached
Note:
1. You need to enable sub-forum display on the forum home from your vB admin panel
2. This hack is for the forum home page, not forum display.
To enable sub-forums on the forum home page
1. Go to your forum Admin panel
2. Click vBulletin Options
3. Select "Forum Listings Display Options" from the drop down list
4. In "Depth of Sub-Forums" replace 0 with 1
Installation
To install, edit the file includes/functions_forumlist.php
1. Find (there are two slightly different lines, differing by a space, the one in question is around line 552)
PHP Code:
if (!isset($vbulletin->iforumcache["$parentid"]))
{
return $output;
}
PHP Code:
$output .= "<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" ><tr valign=\"top\"> ";
$cols = 0;
PHP Code:
if (!empty($output))
{
$subforum = $splitter["$canpost"] . $subforum;
}
if ($depth < $vbulletin->options['subforumdepth'])
{
$output .= construct_subforum_bit($forumid, $cancontainthreads, $subforum, $depthmark . '--', $depth + 1);
}
}
}
return $output;
}
PHP Code:
//sub-forum hack
if ($depth < $vbulletin->options['subforumdepth'])
{
$cols++;
if ($cols==3)
{
$cols = 1;
$output .= "</tr><tr>";
}
$output .= '<td width="50%">' . construct_subforum_bit($forumid, $cancontainthreads, $subforum, $depthmark . '--', $depth + 1) . "</td>";
}
}
}
if ($cols ==1) $output.="<td> </td></tr></table>";
else $output.="</tr></table>";
return $output;
}
//end hack
As this hack will list the sub-forums in a table, the font used is not effected by the <div> tag for subforums, which will cause the default font to be used instead of smallfont.
To use smallfont for sub-forum names, edit the "forumhome_subforumbit_post"
Change (this is the whole template)
Code:
<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/subforum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" /> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>
Code:
<img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/subforum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" /> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><span class="smallfont">$forum[title]</span></a>
And for those who want to edit or remove the "Sub-forum" word, just remove (or edit, if you just want to change it) "<strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>:" from the "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template.
handling of sub-forums.
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