[3.0.3] Category Splitting

[Floris]

This won't be fixed, sorry. The fix is probably by adding a table to level1 or level2 post template.

[Noiz Pollution]

OK... why didn't you just tell me that when I asked originally? Instead of having me wait nearly 2 months for a reply.


Cheers,
Robert

[Blade-uk]

Floris if i use this, will all of the categories line up or not, as i'm using one similar at the moment, and this happens -

http://www.tech-arena.co.uk/forum/

See that the last post colum doesn't line up with the rest.

I've been told it's not fixable by the person who gave me their version.

Is yours the same, or do yours line up ?

[Floris]

I don't see any categories split from eachother on your styles.

[Blade-uk]

ye i've changed it back now.

I know jake bunce made a hack similar for this, and then made a fix to make the colums line up, but it didn't work.

I'll try it all again later maybe.

[Aros]

Well, like I said it's because vBulletin's Last Post Thread Title is too long (30 characters) and my version was using a percentage based width. You should set it to a pixel width value (175px - 200px).

[babolo]

does this work on 3.0.6?

[Hooper]

I just tried to install this on 3.0.7 and it messed up the display. Has anyone verified that this works on latter versions?

[SpaceStar]

Excellent - thank you very much - exactly what I needed on my board

[fire27]

yes it works on .0.7 you just may need to play with it a little

[evil presley]

Fixing problem with subforums not displyaing properly and components floating around

Hi Floris,
Thanks for the tutorial. I managed to get this to work for the fixed width forum of mine no problem; however the subforums are not quite working for subforums with sub categories (see http://www.xecutek.com/testvb/ using my member area username and password; if you cannot access this information, contact me through PM and I'll give you a different username and password for it). Is there a way to make it so that the same will work for subcategories with further subcategories?

Cheers,
Andy Huang

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For those who have had problems with subforums not displaying properly (parts of the forum floating around where they are not supposed to be). After looking around the code on a 3.0.7 installation where the page width is fixed I found that modifying the template called "FORUMDISPLAY" was the best way to go.

Try replacing "$forumbits" with

<!-- HACK FOR GETTING SPLIT FORUM WITH CHILDREN TO WORK -->
 <tr>
   <if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
     <td colspan="7">
   <else />
     <td colspan="6">
   </if>
 $forumbits
   </td>
 </tr>
 <!-- / HACK FOR GETTING SPLIT FORUM WITH CHILDREN TO WORK -->

Maybe this will help some of you.

[sere]

the hack worked fine in 3.0.7. i don't use subforums for now so haven't had any issues with that.

[jamiestevens]

Thanks a lot for this modifiaction help.
It worked just perfectly in version 3.0.8

THANK YOU!

[SonnetCelestial]

For 100% css validation remove the <thead> tags in the FORUMHOME first step so... rather than

 <!-- guest welcome message -->
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<phrase 1="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" 2="register.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
</if>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
<!-- main -->
$forumbits
<!-- /main --> 

Use this instead

<!-- guest welcome message -->
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<phrase 1="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" 2="register.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</if>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
<!-- main -->
$forumbits
<!-- /main --> 

It validated 100% for me

[M4g!k]

Can anyone tell me if this will work on 3.5.1? Its a long shot i know....