[Beta 1.5.x] Floating Categories

[Tywick]

I know I posted once before about this, however, I'm pretty sure the moderator deleted my post because he felt it redundant. BTW yes I did read Nicer categories (by Groundup) but I was unable to read a successful response in that thread. Here I give you a for sure working "floating" category hack which works much nicer than the original one I did.

View Sample* | Download

You can login via  Demo | demo

*The fixed background and the imaged border are NOT part of the hack. The "Mark messages Read" in the category also is NOT part of this hack.

[Webby]

People with mods already built in, don't have a use for it, because you can't tell what you've changed in the Boardindex.php

To wite a mod, you have to follow the "rules" : explain what you EXACTLY changed in the sourcecode.

[Tywick]

In BoardIndex.php

<find>

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         <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bordercolor"><tr><td>
            <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" class="bordercolor">
               <tr>
                  <td class="titlebg" colspan="2"><b>' . $txt[20] . '</b></td>
                  <td class="titlebg" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[330] . '</b></td>
                  <td class="titlebg" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[21] . '</b></td>
                  <td class="titlebg" width="22%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[22] . '</b></td>
               </tr>';
</find>

<delete>

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               <tr>
                  <td class="titlebg" colspan="2"><b>' . $txt[20] . '</b></td>
                  <td class="titlebg" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[330] . '</b></td>
                  <td class="titlebg" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[21] . '</b></td>
                  <td class="titlebg" width="22%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[22] . '</b></td>
               </tr>';
</delete>




<find>

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      {
   $curcat=$row_board['ID_CAT'];
   echo "<tr> <td colspan=\"5\" class=\"catbg\" height=\"18\">\n";
   echo "<a name=\"$row_board[ID_CAT \"><b>$row_board[catName]</b></a></td>\n</tr>\n";
}
</find>

<replace>

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{
   $BoardCount=-1;
   $curcat=$row_board['ID_CAT'];
   $FloatCounting = mysql_query(" SELECT DISTINCT ID_BOARD FROM {$db_prefix}boards WHERE ID_CAT='{$curcat}';");
   $FloatCount = mysql_num_rows($FloatCounting);

         echo '<tr> <td border="0" width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" class="bordercolor">';
         echo "<tr> <td colspan=\"5\" class=\"catbg\" height=\"18\">\n";
         echo "<a name=\"$row_board[ID_CAT]\"><b>$row_board[catName]</b></a></td>\n</tr>\n";
         echo '<tr> <td colspan="2" height="18" class="titlebg"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" width="10%" class="F_Name_Offset"><tr><td> </td></tr></table><b>' . $txt[20] . '</b></td> <td class="titlebg" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[330] . '</b></td> <td class="titlebg" width="6%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[21] . '</b></td> <td class="titlebg" width="22%" align="center"><b>' . $txt[22] . '</b></td> </tr>';
}
</replace>




<find>

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                     <font size="1">
                        ' . $latestPostTime . '<br />
                        ' . $txt['yse88'] . ' ' . $latestPostSubject . '<br />
                        ' . $txt[525] . ' ' . $latestPostName . '
                     </font>
                         </td>
                   </tr>
</find>

<replace>

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                     <font size="1">
                        ' . $latestPostTime . '<br />
                        ' . $txt['yse88'] . ' ' . $latestPostSubject . '<br />
                        ' . $txt[525] . ' ' . $latestPostName . '
                     </font>';
               
$FloatBoardCount++;
if ($FloatBoardCount == $FloatCount) {
   $FloatBoardCount = 0;
   echo "</td></tr></table></td></tr>";
         echo '<tr><td height="20" bgcolor="" class="Float_Amount"></td></tr>';
} else {
echo "</td></tr>";
}
</replace>




<find>

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   if ($username != 'Guest' )
   {
      echo '
               <tr>
                  <td class="titlebg" colspan="6" align="center">
                     <table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
                        <tr>
                           <td align="left">
                              ' . $img['new_some'] . '  
                              ' . $img['new_none'] . '</td>
                           <td align="right">
                              <font size="1"> ';
      if ($showmarkread == 1)
         echo " <a href=\"$scripturl?action=markallasread\">$img[markallread]</a>";
      echo '
                              </font>
                           </td>
                        </tr>
                     </table>
                  </td>
               </tr>';
   }
</find>

<replace>

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   if ($username != 'Guest' )
   {
      echo '
               <tr>
                  <td><table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="bordercolor"><tr>
                  <td class="titlebg" colspan="6" align="center">
                     <table cellpadding="5" border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
                        <tr>
                           <td align="left">
                              ' . $img['new_some'] . '  
                              ' . $img['new_none'] . '</td>
                           <td align="right">
                              <font size="1"> ';
      if ($showmarkread == 1)
         echo " <a href=\"$scripturl?action=markallasread\">$img[markallread]</a>";
      echo '
                              </font>
                           </td>
                        </tr>
                     </table>
                  </td>
               </tr></table></td>
               </tr>';
   }
</replace>

[james1979]

Why would you want this?  Looks kinda silly...

[Tywick]

I admit that the current border I have looks "silly" but as I pointed out

*The fixed background and the imaged border are NOT part of the hack.

that is NOT what your board would look like with the hack. Also even if you did an imaged border you could easily use your own images and overwrite the current ones so long as you use the proper names.

The Categories being seperated is the main focus of this hack.

Keep in mind this board was created soley for testing purposes. I do my best to point out what is and isn't part of the hack.  The hack actually looks more like http://test.msnug.com/yabbse_130 but because that's using version 1.3.0 (and also the fact I just put it up last night) I initially excluded it from this thread.

[Webby]

What happens when you have the collapsable categories mod built in ?

You get floating collapsable categories ?

_{(this is really a serious question you know....)}

[Tywick]

After looking at http://www.teambg.net/forum/?c=all&cattog=X it appears they only float when expanded. However, I'm not exactly sure how that person modified his/her board. I do know that s/he achieves floating the way I used to do it by adding space above the category.

With the code changes mentioned above it should only affect expanded categories because you're looking for the code that displays expanded categories.