Coding Issues with Drop Down Menu and Quotes

[chandlerb]

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with coding. My drop down menu for my board's affiliates aren't linking to the other sites. Could someone take a look at the coding and help me out? I'd really appreciate it.

<br />

$spacer_close
<!-- /content area table -->

<form action="$vboptions[forumhome].php" method="get">
    
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="page" align="center" width="100%">
<tr>
    <if condition="$show['quickchooser']">
        <td class="tfoot">
            <select name="styleid" onchange="switch_id(this, 'style')">
                <optgroup label="$vbphrase[quick_style_chooser]">
                    $quickchooserbits
                </optgroup>
            </select>
        </td>
    </if>
    <if condition="$show['languagechooser']">
        <td class="tfoot">
            <select name="langid" onchange="switch_id(this, 'lang')">
                <optgroup label="$vbphrase[quick_language_chooser]">
                    $languagechooserbits
                </optgroup>
            </select>
        </td>
    </if>


<div class="smallfont" align="center">$vbphrase[all_times_are_gmt_x_time_now_is_y]</div>
<br />
<div align="center">
    <div class="smallfont" align="center">
    <!-- Do not remove this copyright notice -->
    $vbphrase[powered_by_vbulletin]
    <!-- Do not remove this copyright notice -->
    </div>
    
    <div class="smallfont" align="center">
    <!-- Do not remove $cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->
    $cronimage
    <!-- Do not remove $cronimage or your scheduled tasks will cease to function -->
    
    $vboptions[copyrighttext]
    </div><div class="smallfont" align="center">
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</div>
    <td class="tfoot" align="$stylevar[right]" width="100%">
        <div class="smallfont">
            <strong>
                <if condition="$show['contactus']"><a href="$vboptions[contactuslink]" rel="nofollow" accesskey="9">$vbphrase[contact_us]</a> -</if>
                <if condition="$vboptions['hometitle']"><a href="$vboptions[homeurl]">$vboptions[hometitle]</a> -</if>
                <if condition="$show['admincplink']"><a href="$admincpdir/index.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[admin]</a> -</if>
                <if condition="$show['modcplink']"><a href="$modcpdir/index.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[mod]</a> -</if>
                <if condition="$vboptions['archiveenabled']"><a href="archive/index.php">$vbphrase[archive]</a> -</if>
                <if condition="$vboptions[privacyurl]"><a href="$vboptions[privacyurl]">$vbphrase[privacy_statement]</a> -</if>
                <a href="#top" onclick="self.scrollTo(0, 0); return false;">$vbphrase[top]</a>
            </strong>
        </div>
<br />

<div class="smallfont">
            <form name="affiliates">
            <select class="select" onchange="window.open(document.affiliates.menu.options[document.affiliates.menu.selectedIndex].value);" size="1" name="menu" label="Suit Up Affiliates">
<optgroup label="Suit Up Affiliates">
            <option value="http://www.cbs.com">&nbsp;-- CBS</option>
            <option value="http://www.google.com">&nbsp;-- Google</option>
            <option value="http://www.spoilerfix.com">&nbsp;-- Spoiler Fix</option>
            <option value="http://www.pixelmator.com">&nbsp;-- Pixelmator</option>                      
            </select>
</optgroup>
        </form>
        </div>
    </td>
</tr>
</table>

<br />

</form>

<if condition="$show['dst_correction']">
<!-- auto DST correction code -->
<form action="profile.php?do=dst" method="post" name="dstform">
    <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
    <input type="hidden" name="do" value="dst" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
    var tzOffset = $bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset] + $bbuserinfo[dstonoff];
    var utcOffset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
    if (Math.abs(tzOffset + utcOffset) == 1)
    {    // Dst offset is 1 so its changed
        document.forms.dstform.submit();
    }
//-->
</script>
<!-- / auto DST correction code -->

</if>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
    // Main vBulletin Javascript Initialization
    vBulletin_init();
//-->
</script>

</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Also, my BB codes for my quotes work only part of the time. Usually when I go through "Advanced Posting". If I go through Quick Post and manually insert in [quote=Poster 1]Says something like this[/quote], it usually does not work.

The code for this is:

<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; <if condition="$show['iewidthfix']">width: 100%;</if>">
    <table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
        <td class="alt2" style="border:0px">
            <if condition="$show['username']">
                <div class="smallfont">
                    <em><phrase 1="$username">$vbphrase[originally_posted_by_x]</phrase></em>
                    <if condition="$postid"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$postid#post$postid" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="$vbphrase[view_post]" /></a></if>
                </div>
                $message
            <else />
                $message
            </if>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
</div>

I'd appreciate any help on this. Thanks!

[peterska2]

With regards to your custom menu, you will get a quicker response from vBulletin.org

With regards to your quotes issue, please reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server. Also be sure to upload the admincp files to whichever directory you have set in your config.php file. Then run 'Suspect File Versions' in Diagnostics to make sure you have all the original files for your version:

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions

[Note: In some cases you may also need to remove any of the listed .xml files in the includes/xml directory.]

Next, disable all plugins.

Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Then if you still have this problem, create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Finally empty your browser cache, close all browser windows then try again. Make sure you change to the new style and view your forums with it. Now check again.

Do you still have the same problem?