[Done 1.5.x] Category Switch v1.9 SE

[Juvenall Wilson]

Inspired by a design change I'm working in for the next version of the perl YaBB (no, not Y2), I created a mod for SE that will give the same effect. It's been tested on both 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 and seems to work alright for the three beta testers I abused today..

Category Switch v1.9 SE
By: Juvenall Wilson (switch)

One of the things that always got me about the BoardIndex of both the Perl and PHP versions of YaBB was how the Category name was listed after the forum key. Adding to my frustration, the size of the cells always threw me off. So I threw this mod together.

Nothing too fancy here. We simply search for the html that prints out the forum key then move that into the category display. This causes it to show the key directly after the catagory name. While we're up to that, we change the class the two parts are a part of so we can control their look more precicley then before.

After you run the mod, you MUST add the two new classes to the CSS of your template. If you don't, it won't look as good. Then again, there's no accounting for taste..

Here's the screenshot after it's installed -


Click here to get Category Switch 1.9 SE!

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!-Important-!
You MUST add two new classes to your template's CSS file. This gives you more control over the size and color of the category title and forum key without making major changes to the rest of your forum. You'll find the two classes inside of the package.

Also note there is no Admin option for this yet. I'll add that in later when I get some extra time again..heh
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Please let me know of any bugs or compatability problems you happen to run into.


Enjoy

[Juvenall Wilson]

Removed something that was screwing up the bottom of some templates.

[B »]

wonderful mod for consistency addicts here

WTG Juvenall

[I, Brian]

Good idea! If it's not too remedial to ask, where abouts is the actual text title "forum" coded? It would like more logical to change that to "board", yes?

[B »]

Good idea! If it's not too remedial to ask, where abouts is the actual text title "forum" coded? It would like more logical to change that to "board", yes?

Suit ur logic buddy

Here u go ...

The actual text "Forum" is called from the language file ur using, say "english.lng" to the file "Sources/BoardIndex.php"

Open up the file "english.lng" and search for "$txt[20] = 'Forums';". Here, replace the word "Forum" to "Board"

OR

u can add a new text variable eg. $txt[1001] = 'Board'; into the "english.lng" file and call it in the "Sources/BoardIndex.php" where it is colored red below:

(note: the code displayed below is 'after' the mod has been applied)

$curcat=$row_board['ID_CAT'];

         echo "<tr> <td colspan=\"5\" class=\"cattitlebg\" height=\"18\">\n";

         echo "<a name=\"$row_board[ID_CAT]\"><b>$row_board[catName]</b></a></td>\n</tr>\n";
         echo '<tr>
                  <td class="forumkey"> </td>
                  
                  <td class="forumkey"><b>' . $txt[20] . '</b></td><-- Replace the 20 with 1001 within the []'s here.

                  <td class="forumkey" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[330] . '</b></td>

                  <td class="forumkey" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[21] . '</b></td>

                  <td class="forumkey" width="22%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[22] . '</b></td>

               </tr>';

Have gone in for the former option, later one is another option u wud like to use only if u choose to