UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications Forum Design Integration Forum Summary Table Background Images

Name: Forum Summary Table Background Images

Description: Adds table background images to your forum summary page in the forum name and forum description area.

Link: Here

Demo: none for v6 yet, a v5 version can be seen here: http://www.metallifukinca.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi

Requirement: UBB™ 6.3

Fantastic, I'll probably be using this

Thanks Allen

welcome, let me know how it goes... the v5 version looked good

Anyone try this yet?

I did, and it works great

Very cool Allen, what would be even cooler was if you could get rid of the on/off lights, then have 2 sets of the background image for each forum. If there are new posts it would use one, if there are no new posts itd use the other. (ie. you could use a color one for new posts and a black and white one for no new posts.)

But anyway... still very cool.

I try, but it doesn't work, I did what you said but ...
althought I have forum1.gif, forum2.gif in noncgi folder

I like this idea, any chance of it for 6.1 ??

should work in most any version I think

doesn't work for me, just opens the bulb table to the witdh of the background image but nothing more

maybe cause I have 6.4.0.1, are there any changes needed ?

this one should work for 6.4 and 6.5 too

yeah, it did, just had to change the variableURL but now i do like to FIX the HEIGHT of the tables so the backgroundpicture won't get messed up like it's now:
http://technoforum.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

it looks good to me, how do you see it? I am using IE6

here it isn't perfect - the bottom part of every forum row (except for the 2 last ones) is kinda messed up...

well, i do have a problem by finding out how to fix the height of the forumtablerows matching perfectly to the height of the slices. i included a bunch of 'height'-tags but they do not work. i also know that usually i have to include for especially very old netscape-browsers blind.gifs into a table-tag to fix the height and width.... but well, dunno,
using 6.01 was easy, had not big problems by creating a dumb table with a fixed height for every row but the template-files of 6.5 confuse me ..

anyway, lk, thanks for the hint @ infopop.com, i'm me dummy did not look in ubb_forum_sum to check the length of the subjectline, me dummy was look all time in public_forum_sum for that line *g*

height="x" for tables isn't supported by most browsers, it manages to sneak into people's code anyways

It looks like you need to make the image slices a bit taller to fill out the table, the extra you see at the bottom of each is the image being repeated to fill the space. You can add a no repeat style to the image, but it needs to be bigger to look right

well, because of the fact that usually some users do get problems by viewing a table with older browsers i made some sort of 'workaround' in 6.01 adding a 1px-col with a 1px-transparent.gif stretching the table to the correct height of the slices i used and im still using. because i just combined two lines in the pub_for_sum.pl-file (author+date > one single line) i do not have to reslice the backgroundpicture, no i just have to find out how to fix the height again. i made it in 6.01 perfectly after patching, so, just have to find another workaround again *g*... i think it shoudn't be the big deal, but 6.5 is completely new for me and i have to get into hacking files again...