Some vB questions

**Jake Bunce** · Tue 25 Dec '07, 7:33pm

1) The second post in this thread shows how to add a link to the quick links menu. The original calendar link can simply be removed from the same template.

2) Go to your:

Admin CP -> Languages & Phrases -> Search in Phrases

Search for "first_visit_message" in the Phrase Variable Name Only. Edit the matching phrase.

3) Stickies are similar to announcements. Many people use them in place of announcements because they are easier to manage.

4) Edit this template:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Threadbit Templates -> threadbit_announcement

Remove the red code:

Code:

<tr>
	<td class="alt1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/announcement_$announcement[statusicon].gif" border="0" alt="$vbphrase[announcement]" /></td>
	<td class="alt2" colspan="$announcecolspan">
		<div>
			<span class="smallfont" style="float:$stylevar[right]">$vbphrase[views]: <strong>$announcement[views]</strong> <a href="announcement.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$foruminfo[forumid]$announcementidlink"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/lastpost.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_announcement]" border="0" /></a></span>
			<strong>$vbphrase[announcement]</strong>: <a href="announcement.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$foruminfo[forumid]$announcementidlink">$announcement[title]</a>
		</div>
		<div>
			<span style="float:$stylevar[right]"><if condition="$show['forumtitle']"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$announcement[forumid]">$announcement[forumtitle]</a> </if><span class="smallfont">$announcement[postdate]</span></span>
			<span class="smallfont">
				<a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$announcement[userid]">$announcement[username]</a>
				[color=red]<if condition="$announcement['usertitle'] != ''">($announcement[usertitle])</if>[/color]
			</span>
		</div>
	</td>
</tr>

**Tanapangarap** · Wed 26 Dec '07, 9:39am

Thank you. I've managed to implement the changes.

I have four further questions. I anticipate no more after that.

1. On the View Forum Leaders page, I want to add a message on top of the administrator list. I want the message to be contained inside a box that like the welcome message displayed to guests on the index. I want it to say:

Listed below are all the members of forum staff. If you want more information about them, you can check their profiles, or you can read the "<strong><a href="http://www.theinfinityprogram.com/showthread.php?t=1229">Staff List</a></strong>."

How might I go about doing this?

2. How do I remove View Forum Leaders from near the bottom of the forum? I want to remove it because I instead added it as a menu option near the top of the forum, and titled it "Staff List".

3. The header for the guest welcome message says "Welcome to the The Infinity Program". As you can see, "the" is listed twice. "The" is part of my forum name, and it must be capitalized, so how would I go about removing the one that is shown uncapitalized?

4. How would I go about implementing online/offline/invisible IMAGES in place of the "is [insert status here]" text?

**Jake Bunce** · Wed 26 Dec '07, 9:59am

1) Edit this template:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Show Groups Templates -> SHOWGROUPS

Near the top, add the blue code:

Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
$headinclude
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $vbphrase[show_groups]</title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar

[color=blue]<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat" align="left">
		MESSAGE TITLE
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt1" align="left">
		MESSAGE HERE
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />[/color]

<if condition="$moderatorbits">
<!-- moderators -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat" colspan="4">$vbphrase[moderators]</td>
</tr>
<tr>

2) Edit this template:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Forum Home Templates -> FORUMHOME

Remove the red code:

Code:

	  </if>
	</tr>
</thead>
$forumbits
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
			<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
			[color=red]<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
			<a href="showgroups.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>[/color]
		</strong></div></td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
$forumhome_markread_script
<!-- /main -->

<br />
<br />

<!-- what's going on box -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>

3) Go to your:

Admin CP -> Languages & Phrases -> Search in Phrases

Search for "welcome to the". Edit the first matching phrase.

4) The software already shows those images by default:

images/statusicon/user_invisible.gif
images/statusicon/user_offline.gif
images/statusicon/user_online.gif

**Tanapangarap** · Wed 26 Dec '07, 11:26am

Thank you; your instruction was most helpful again.

However, I have some comments:

Regarding #3, does it matter if I search "Phrase Text Only" or "Phrase Variable Name Only", or both?

Regarding #4, yes, and I should have been more specific. For the template supported by vBulletin, including the default one packaged with the software, this would be the case, but the problem I'm having is with the ones I purchased, which, instead of an image, has text either saying "is online" or "is offline" beside the user name. But it occurred to me that it would be proper for me to consult the respective companies I got my templates from, since they know the modifications they made to the template, so I would have been wasting your time and being improper asking you the question instead of the company I got the templates from. For that, I'm sorry.

Regards,

Kevin

**Jake Bunce** · Wed 26 Dec '07, 11:31am

3) Use Phrase Text Only which is the default.

4) It sounds like they have changed this template:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> « » -> Postbit Templates -> postbit_onlinestatus

Try reverting it.

**Tanapangarap** · Wed 26 Dec '07, 1:35pm

Regarding #3: Thank you; I have applied the change.

Regarding #4: Correct. I have checked, and this is what I found:

Code:

<if condition="$onlinestatus==0">is <span class="smallfont">Offline</span></if>
<if condition="$onlinestatus==1">is <span class="smallfont" style="color:#cdf16c;">Online</span></if>
<if condition="$onlinestatus==2">is <span class="smallfont" style="color:green;">Invisible</span></if>

I knew to look at the code for the default vBulletin template, which already has online/offline images instead of text, to see how I should change the above code, but I'm still confused how I should go about modifying, assuming I wouldn't merely copy-and-paste.

Here would be the respective directories of the two templates (marked in red) to which I want to apply the change (assuming it would be of any use to know):

/enlighten/statusicon

/images/greenfox/statusicon

(As to the latter directory having the template in "/images", well, that was the company's template installation instructions, and it was proper.)

I have already posted in the support forums of the companies of the templates I purchased, but thought, in the mean time, I might ask you, too, in case I made get additional useful info, or in case it's similar info, but phrased in such a way as to further help my understanding.

**Jake Bunce** · Wed 26 Dec '07, 1:46pm

That template has been modified. Try reverting it. This is the default code:

Code:

<if condition="$onlinestatus==0"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/user_offline.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$user[username]">$vbphrase[x_is_offline]</phrase>" border="0" /></if>
<if condition="$onlinestatus==1"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/user_online.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$user[username]">$vbphrase[x_is_online_now]</phrase>" border="0" /></if>
<if condition="$onlinestatus==2"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/user_invisible.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$user[username]">$vbphrase[x_is_invisible]</phrase>" border="0" /></if>

Note the $stylevar[imgdir_statusicon] variable in the image path. Each style has its own statusicon directory defined:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> StyleVars (in the menu) -> Item Status Icon Folder

**Tanapangarap** · Mon 31 Dec '07, 4:29pm

If it's alright, I have one additional question for now. I already asked in the topic of the author of the modification in question, but have been without a response in a long while, so I thought I'd repeat it here. I posted telling the author that I like his modification and wish to implement it, but that I cannot because I do not understand step three of implementation, which is this:

Code:

STEP THREE

ADD PHRASE

type: global
varname: gender
Text: Gender

I asked for a walk-through, if someone might give me the privilege. Might I have the privilege here?

And if it might also be of use, here is the text for the modification in question for context:

Code:

**************************************************
** ADD GENDER ICON TO POSTBIT    v1.04          **
** By peterska2 08 June 2006                    **
** For release at vBulletin.org peterska2.co.uk **
**        and vBhacks-germany.com only          **
**                                              **
**************************************************


STEP ONE

Create the following new profile field. 
Type: Single-Selection Menu
Title: Gender
Description: Select your gender
Options: Male
     Female
Set Default: None

Allow user to input own value: No

Display page: Edit Profile


***********************************

STEP TWO

Note the field number (shown in the profile field manager), eg field5

***********************************

STEP THREE

ADD PHRASE

type: global
varname: gender
Text: Gender

************************************



STEP FOUR

POSTBIT TEMPLATE EDIT

-----------

POSTBIT OR POSTBIT_LEGACY
-------

FIND

                <if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: $post[age]</div></if>

ADD BELOW

<if condition="$post[fieldx]">$vbphrase[gender]: <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/$post[fieldx].gif" alt="$post[fieldx]" /></if>

CHANGE X TO THE FIELD NUMBER NOTED IN STEP 2


SAVE


********************************

STEP FIVE

MEMBERS LIST TEMPLATE EDIT

In Template memberlist_resultsbit

FIND

<if condition="$show['usertitlecol']"><div class="smallfont">$userinfo[usertitle]</div></if>

AFTER ADD

<if condition="$userinfo[fieldx]"><div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[gender]<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/$userinfo[fieldx].gif" alt="$userinfo[fieldx]" /></div></if>


******************************

STEP SIX

Choose your image set (either male & female or male2 and female2) 
Rename to male and female. They MUST match exactly the way it is typed 
in the profile field, otherwise they will not work!

Upload Male.gif, Female.gif and undisclosed.gif to /images/misc

*********************************

YOU ARE DONE! ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS SET YOUR GENDER IN YOUR USERCP

DON'T FORGET TO CLICK INSTALL! THANKS.

**Jake Bunce** · Mon 31 Dec '07, 9:30pm

Code:

STEP THREE

ADD PHRASE

type: global
varname: gender
Text: Gender

Admin CP -> Languages & Phrases -> Phrase Manager -> Add New Phrase

Phrase Type = Global
Varname = gender
Text = Gender

Then click Save.

**Tanapangarap** · Fri 4 Jan '08, 12:32am

Thank you.

Another question has been lingering in my mind for about a week now, and I've been unable to get help for it even at the forum where I saw the modification in question implemented. As I asked elsewhere:

Do you also know how to word-wrap the text for the Location field, for in case someone makes a long entry? This is already done at AdminFusion forum. For instance, at AdminFusion, I entered, for my location, "This is a long entry for the case of demonstration." The result was thus:

Location: This is a long entry for the
case of demonstration

I seek such a modification for Postbit, or the setting that has all user info above the post, like here at vbulletin.com.

**Jake Bunce** · Fri 4 Jan '08, 11:41am

Which postbit template? postbit or postbit_legacy?

From what I can see of those templates, both of them should allow the text to wrap unless it's one long string of text with no spaces.

**Tanapangarap** · Sun 6 Jan '08, 2:13am

I mean postbit.

For an example/demo, please view the second post in this topic on any three of my templates. Even the vBulletin default template has the problem.

**Jake Bunce** · Sun 6 Jan '08, 8:27pm

In the postbit template, try removing the red code:

Code:

				<if condition="$post['usertitle']"><div class="smallfont">$post[usertitle]</div></if>
				<if condition="$post['rank']"><div class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>
				$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left]
				
			</td>
			<td width="100%">&nbsp;</td>
			<td valign="top" [color=red]nowrap="nowrap"[/color]>
				
				<div class="smallfont">
					<if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: $post[joindate]</div></if>
					<if condition="$post['field2']"><div>$vbphrase[location_perm]: $post[field2]</div></if>
					<if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: $post[age]</div></if>
					<div>

...and adding the blue code:

Code:

				<if condition="$post['usertitle']"><div class="smallfont">$post[usertitle]</div></if>
				<if condition="$post['rank']"><div class="smallfont">$post[rank]</div></if>
				$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left]
				
			</td>
			<td width="100%">&nbsp;</td>
			<td valign="top" [color=blue]width="200"[/color]>
				
				<div class="smallfont">
					<if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: $post[joindate]</div></if>
					<if condition="$post['field2']"><div>$vbphrase[location_perm]: $post[field2]</div></if>
					<if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: $post[age]</div></if>
					<div>

Use whatever fixed width you want.

**Tanapangarap** · Thu 17 Jan '08, 9:45am

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it to work. No matter what width I choose--either great, small, or in between--all the info in the right becomes squeezed to the right, so that there are only a few characters per line, and the user info ends up stretching substantially vertically.

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