Hey Tubedogg!

[JJR512]

I was looking at the message board in your signature: http://board.tubescan.com/

And I noticed how you have a small "New Thread" button for each forum in the "threads" column. I made my own button, but how did you do the rest of it?

Thanks!

[tubedogg]

LOL actually it's only there because my co-admin objected to putting it in the column with the forum name, but if you look at http://www.sitepointforums.com you can see something very similar. (He's got a couple other things there too - latest topics, and something else.)

Really very simple. Just edit the forumhome_forumbit_level2_post template. Find

	<td bgcolor="{ firstaltcolor }"><normalfont>$forum[threadcount]</normalfont></td>

and replace it with

	<td bgcolor="{ firstaltcolor }"><normalfont>$forum[threadcount]</normalfont><br><a href="newthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newthread&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><img src="{ imagesfolder }/newthreadsmall.gif" border=0></a></td>

and edit the .gif name to reflect your image. (Remove the spaces around the replacement variables.)

[JJR512]

OK, works great, thanks!

You can see my implementation here: http://www.jjr512.com/forums/index.php?s=

You should add this to your signature!

[RJ]

I'm not the type to hack my board, but I will in this case, because this is a totally COOL hack!

Nice job!

[tubedogg]

<gets up on soapbox>
Editing templates is not hacking. You are not hacking your board unless you edit the PHP files themselves.
</soapbox>

Sorry I had to say that.

[JJR512]

Well, maybe right below your "my vB2 hacks" section, you could make a "my vB3 template mods" section. And the first one in there is this one, since I recommended it!

[RJ]

Okay, okay, I reiterate - it's a totally cool template modification.

Better?

[tubedogg]

LOL you guys

At least you didn't scream and bite my head off. Wayne has gotten that response at least once when he's said that.

[RJ]

Why would I scream? You didn't beat me with a stick, or anything!

I've already had my daily dose of caffeine (and then some), so I'm in a relatively peaceful mood.

...Life is good...

[JJR512]

Yeah, I know, I gave him one once. I basically told him if he didn't like it, he could shove my reply in the template mods forum. Thing is, I didn't know there actually was such a forum, and the comment was supposed to be flippant. But since there was, he did it, and I think the tone behind it was completely missed!

[Hooper]

http://www.sitepointforums.com

Tube,

I would like to have mine set up like the link you posted.

http://www.sitepointforums.com

Where I could have the "read new posts", "create new thread topic" and "subscribe to the forum" in the same exact location as they have it. I'll make some images for this I would suppose.

Could you explain how they did this to me? Maybe even post the code for the 3 and explain how to get it in that location?

I would appreciate it. That is a real nice idea and makes it even more functionally friendly.


Thank You,
Hooper

[Wayne Luke]

Here is my forumhome_forumbit_level1_post template with the icons. To do the "Read New" you will have to find the code for my search2.php file which is posted in these forums as well.

<tr>
  <td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" valign="top"><IMG SRC="{imagesfolder}/$forum[onoff].gif" BORDER=0 align="left" valign="top" width="20" height="20"></td>
  <td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}">
    <table width="100%">
      <tr> 
        <td valign="top"><b><a href="forumdisplay.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><normalfont>$forum[title]</normalfont></a></b></td>
        <td width="35%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="search2.php?action=getlatest&forumid=$forum[forumid]"> <img src="{imagesfolder}/findnew.gif"  border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Read New Posts since Last Visit"></a><a href="newthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newthread&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><img src="{imagesfolder}/newthread.gif" border="0" width="11" height="11" hspace=2" alt="Create a new Thread topic in this forum"></a><a href="member2.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=addsubscription&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><img src="{imagesfolder}/subscribe.gif" border="0" width="13" height="11" hspace="2" alt="Subscribe to the Forum to Build a Custom SitePoint"></a></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2"><smallfont>$forum[description]</smallfont></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </td>  
  <td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" align=center valign=top NOWRAP><normalfont>$forum[replycount]</normalfont></td>
  <td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" align=center valign=top NOWRAP><normalfont>$forum[threadcount]</normalfont></td>
  <td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" NOWRAP valign=top align=center><normalfont>$forum[lastpostinfo]</normalfont></td>
</tr>

p.s.... I am moving this to the template forum.

[Hooper]

To WLuke

That was very kind.

Thank You,
Hooper

[JJR512]

I would like to add that if you want to make the same change that I asked about originally, and which tubedogg showed how to do in his first reply, to the subforums that show up at the top of the parent forum, then you need to make the exact same changes that tubedogg described as doing to the forumhome_forumbit_level2_post template, only this time do it to the forumdisplay_forumbit_level1_post template.

[JJR512]

Also to forumdisplay_forumbit_level2_post template. (So that it shows up on subforums under the parent forum when viewing the category.)