Charles, any specific information you can share about these IE quirks?
Part of my site's layout really needs to be editable by the end user (a header and a sponsor sidebar). The users (Moderators) are responsible for maintaining their part of the site. Using frames is a fairly easy way to accomplish this (aside from the many target issues).
The UBB Styles html header and footer is too complex and sensitive to allow these users access to the CP. What I need is the ability for the header and footer html variable to call a file from another folder on my site, a user editable file. (edited with a totally separate script.)
That way, I can maintain the forum's style header and footer html safely, and give the user a place to edit the contents of a table cell within the header html.
If vars_style{Header} was a script instead of a string of html, I could use a script to create the html to place in the header.
I'm not a perl coder, but I've been able to do things like modify existing subroutines to get the desired result. This looks like it would be a pretty significant change to the cp_styles code, and likely over my head. But simple for an expert?
I'm thinking I should add two vars to to the %vars_style, $HeaderCustom and $FooterCustom, and have an on/off var $UseCustom that says "use HeaderCustom or use Header". That way, I could have both my standard html in the style *and* custom html. I could turn off the custom html if a user screwed up his contribution to HeaderCustom.
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$HeaderCustom and $FooterCustom would be created by a sub that gets an external file (the custom content) and inserts it into the specified table wrapper. Then that completed html would be written into the $Header var for the specified style.
Anyone want to give it a shot or suggest how I should start?
Thanks and best regards,
Greg Stasko
