Editing headers and footer comparison

[cronin]

i was testing out the admin demo because i am looking for something that has a way to edit forum's the way you can with proboards in the edinting headers and footers section, such as when you go into one of the forum pages, it plays a different music in everyone of them. Can you do those kind of things with vBulletin? Thanks

[Floris]

You can use conditionals to display a different element in the header/footer templates.

For example:

<if condition="$forumid == '5'">sound1.wav</if>

Would only display this sound if the forum had forumid 5.

[cronin]

this will work for every different forum under the same category?

[Floris]

Yep, any unique forumid, and .. they are unique :)

You can even make a default code for when the forumid is unknown.


<if condition="$forumid == '1'">
Code for when the forumid is 1
<else />
<if condition="$forumid == '5'">
Code for when the forumid is 5
<else />
Code for every other forumid
</if>
</if>

[cronin]

do these codes work only for vBulletin?

[Steve Machol]

Yes, these are specific to vB's template system.

[cronin]

cool thanks

[hilary]

I've used this idea to put a banner ad at the top of section of my forum...

this is the code that I've used,

<if condition="$forumid == '205'">
<center>
<a href="http://www.linkcounter.com/go.php?linkid=274092" target="new"><img src="http://www.bubhub.com.au/images/zkindermusikbanner.gif" alt="Kindermusik" border=none></a><br>
</center><br>
<else />&nbsp;
</if>

The target=new code is ignored and instead of a new browser window opening, the viewer is taken from our site to the advertisers site. Is there any code that I could use to clicking on the ad open a new browser window?

Thanks

(Oops, just noticed this is in a version 3.0 section of the forum - I am using 3.5.3 if that makes a difference to the reply)

[harmor]

target="_blank"

[Steve Machol]

This is the Pre-Sales forum. Please post in the appropriate forum for support.

[harmor]

I thought it be ok to answer since the it's more of a HTML question than vbulletin.

[hilary]

Hi harmor

Thanks for the response, that worked!

I think the 'post in the correct section' comment from Steve was aimed at me rather than you!
Sorry Steve, I only realised after I'd made the post that it was in an inappropriate section - I know how annoying this is and promise not to do it again!:)