UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Forum Design Integration Integrated Index Page (IIP) 5.1.1

The boxes should expend to 100% but the index page has 3 columns. The only time the wide right column is used is with the menu options such as Attachment List or Profile Index.

You could try to turn everything off in the right hand column and set the right hand column's size to 0 and then adjust the center to the rest of the width and then turn on what you want for the center.

That may work, I think.

Oh I see - sorry my mistake.

Just fixed the user's time offset for the shout box to display the adjusted times. I had forgotten to request the offset information when authenticating so it was always 0.

I updated the attached zip file located in this thread's main post. Just download the zip and upload the new shoutdisplaypal.php script to your pal directory and you should be set.

Just wanted to share some information I noticed while playing with my various browsers... lol

I really like Mozilla and will be using it much more when I get time to switch to Linux. One of the things I like is that it displayes how long it took to load a page. I went to your website with Mozilla for the first time and your page said:

Generated in 1.668 seconds in which 1.612 seconds were spent on a total of 14 queries. Zlib compression enabled

Mozilla took 2.235 seconds to load the page and graphics.


I browse a bit then go back to the entrance to see how the times change now that the graphics are cached. Your page said:

Generated in 1.856 seconds in which 1.762 seconds were spent on a total of 14 queries. Zlib compression enabled.

Mozilla took 5.781 seconds to load? It has been hovering around that 5 second mark too. Weird, huh?



Don't freak lol just wanted to let you know what it was like in something other than IE

(it looked great in Mozilla too, btw)

I personally don't run mozilla at home, but have used it at work on my site a few times. Tonight may not have been an accurate test, since for a while it was completely down, and off and on tonight its been fairly slow

But that seems aroung right, the 2 second mark. In IE when I first go to my page, its roughly 2 seconds from blank screen to a display.

Also, are you sure the header looked ok in mozilla? I thought last time I checked it was messing up the table with the mouseover buttons, but I may have fixed it and just haven't tested it yet.

Looks good in Mozilla 1.1 and the rollovers work too.

In Opera it looks good and the rollovers work too but there is padding around the body and the <iframe> width isn't supported in percentages (I believe) and is best set to a specific size such as 200. To get rid of the padding set it to 0px in your .css body style: padding:0px;

In IE and Mozilla the "margin:0;" removes the padding for them.

Ahh, silly opera

EDIT - hmm.. something is amiss

Wow.. something is messed up. Earlier today, index was loading at an almost always consistent 1.7sec or so. Well, now that you mentioned it was getting 5+ seconds.. I'm getting that now too. I tried to think of what I changed...

maybe an hour ago I added one new forum. It only has one post in it, but after that I too notice the index being extremely slow, whereas all my other pages still load very fast (0.1-0.17 sec)

Hmmm

I don't think it's the new forum. It's more likely just heavy server load right now. Give it a few hours and see what happens.

[]Ahh, silly opera

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opera 7 should finally work like IE/Mozilla as it is supposed to support standards.

finally

I am sooooooooo looking forward to that! Maybe it will also support the percentage sized iframe too... guess I can wait and see before changing.

just uploadet it but i dont have any link on the ipp copyright link ???

how do i get to configure panel ??

www.holme-olstrup.dk/ubbthreads

Thomas

If your logged in, are an Administrator, and your cookies are set site wide, ie: $config['cookiepath'] = "/"; you should see the link.

(your cookies don't have to be site wide if the index is in your .threads installation directory though)

Hope that helps.

When I looked at my site with Mozilla 1.0 my images had a space between them. In RC1 that was cleared up.

But one thing I did notice was that Mozilla seemed to incorrectly display the table widths.

My left Column was set to 60% then the middle and right are set to 20% each. But both the middle and right columns looked more like 10% each.

The columns are controlled by one 3 column table with each column set to a specific width. The pal boxes inside these columns expand to 100% which will end up being the same width as the column it is in. I have viewed 4 different sites, including my own test sites, with Mozilla 1.1, IE 6.0, Opera 6.0.5 and Netscape 7.0 and the only thing I have noted is that Opera does not handle the <iframe> width being set in a percentage as the other browsers do.

Now that IIP is XHTML 1.0 compliant there should be no layout problems when viewed with a standards compliant browser such as the ones noted above with the exception of Opera. I am told that Opera 7.0 will be comming up in the near future so that may help the layout of the <iframe>, I hope.


Note: I just set IIP to 60,20,20 here at ThreadsDev and in Mozilla 1.1 it looks as it does in IE. Have you altered the html in the index?

Actually I think I found the problem.

While using the validator I have a few open tags.

I'll have to look at my header and footer.

I was compliant before......:(

I know what it's like to miss a tag or two... or more... lol

I am now once again XHTML compliant....:)

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=w...tect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

But the right column still seems to be smaller than the middle column which both are set at 20%.

I have another Index set up at
http://www.unnecessaryroughness.com/pigskin/

That one looks fine. So I think it is the URL in the last News Item that doesn't wrap in Mozilla but does in IE.

P.S. I found a small XHTML error in pollpal.php
If this is fixed in the latest version please disregard

Line 268:

code:

echo "<tr><td align="left" valign="top" 
class="tdheader">{$pal_CurrentPoll[0]}</td></tr><tr><td 
align="left" valign="top" class="lighttable"><table 
width=100%>";

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Should be:

code:

echo "<tr><td align="left" valign="top" 
class="tdheader">{$pal_CurrentPoll[0]}</td></tr><tr><td 
align="left" valign="top" class="lighttable"><table 
width="100%">";

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In Mozilla 1.1 the middle and right columns seem to be of the same widths but that left column is stretched way out to the extent that I have to scroll right to see the right column...

IIP's columns worked correctly here so I thinnk it's possibly the html changes you have made.

Good catch!

That's one I missed. I have it fixed now and I also updated the attachment of IIP 5.0 in this thread's main post. I also updated the pollpal.php script here at threadsdev.

Thanks.

Editing the URL that wouldn't wrap fixed the issue. It would not wrap in Netscape 6.2 either.

anyone have problems downloading v6.1 br1 of ubb.threads from infopop? I have been downloading for like 15 times now and still get corrupt files. Damn=( just needed the download.php file, so I can use IIP. Is it possible to post that file for me?

I will try again to download the file again.

That's a copyrighted file. It should never be posted for download. Sorry.

Ya. I know. No Problem. I will sent them a email now and see if they can email it to me

If your on a windows box, trying to download the .zip I know what ya mean. The download box in ie tends to 'hang' at 99% waiting for the final confirmation from the server (i think). I just let it sit there and it finally finishes ok. I don't have this problem on the .gz version, nor on other websites. (well I did on one server which was some type of unix/linux too)

Has anyone noticed that IIP doesn't work with beta2? I just found out the hard way..... I imagine Dave is working on things.....

Hey Dave,

In the last version... for the news pal... you had the ability (for a select forum) to disable the user picture, date and username. In this version I can only find where to disable the user pic.

For example... if you look at my homepage... the first forum... we don't need the date and/or username as it's all intro to the site... and or banner ads etc... I don't need the date and such until you go lower to actual posts.

Any idea if there's an easy way to disable this stuff in the one forum?

OK -
Actually found the answer to this one on my own... it's no longer a config option...

In newspal.php

Find this line:
$date = "<br />{$pal_News[8]} $date";


Above it add this:
// begin conditional for forum without date, name and extras
if ($postdisplay[$i] != "keywordofforumhere") {




Find this:
$printPost = "<a target="_blank" href="{$config['phpurl']}/printthread.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$palKeyword&main=$palNumber&type=post"><img alt="{$pal_News[13]}" src="{$config['images']}/print.gif" align="middle" border="0" width="18" height="16" /></a>";
$twidth = "100%";


Below it add this:
} //end of if statement to avoid date, name and extras

else {
$date = "";
$userPic = "";
$palUsername = "";
} //end of else

I took them out thinking nobody actually used those options... lol sorry

I'll make sure they are in for the next one.

Maybe nobody else in the world did. <SHRUG> [lol]

But on my home page.. we pull stuff from one forum to be the intro, content and ads on our front page. I guess I could hard code some pal boxes like I did with my ad pal boxes... but having that stuff in the forums allows the other admin to easily edit.

Thanks Dave!

We don't get the # of replies anymore either

hmmmmm.... now that should be working... lol I'll take a look sometime today. Are the ones being displayed allowing guests to post? I think that I have it set to not show the replies or the reply link if they don't have write access. This will be a simple fix.

question: Where is the code (html) you get for the open table and close table hidden?

[]hmmmmm.... now that should be working... lol I'll take a look sometime today. Are the ones being displayed allowing guests to post? I think that I have it set to not show the replies or the reply link if they don't have write access. This will be a simple fix.

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It's the announcements/news pal. We only have guests posting in the test forum here

That's part of ubbt.inc.php around line 755 so changes there may mean changes for other .threads scripts...

Perhaps removing the open_table and close_table calls and replacing them with straight html?

hmmm... or an open table/close table specific to IIP. Tho I like the idea that it uses the basic html from the forum. Let me work on my problem a bit more then. It really should be possible to get most of that work to work from those basic calls, would simplify forum-wide changes. As it stands in 6.0x and 6.1, the faq page is the only public page affected by open and close table. I've recently found out I have a few more days anyway Getting this right will simplify transitioning to 6.2+

Hey Dave, I don't know if you have been able to test this or not, but to my supprise, my website was almost unreadable when using a mac running netscape. The IIP was completely toast, the whole right column was missing.

Also, I noticed many posts within the forums were really screwed up as well. Not sure if its just an issue with a certain version of mac NS or what, but it wasn't pretty

It should render well on a mac with a standards compliant browser. It's XHTML 1.0 compliant!

I'm not sure why it didn't in your situation. Does the page validate with your header/footer and any other changes?

Not sure, haven't checked recently. But even if the header/footer are slightly amiss, the whole ubb threads was pretty messed up looking. Instead of those nice one pixel black borders around everything, it was big fat 3+ pixel gray spacing throughout all of the ubb.threads pages. Looked pretty bad.

I should have checked other threads sites while I was on it just to compare.. I will do that tomorrow

Thankfully only 0.000003% of the population uses macs AND netscape (haha, sorry Josh )