UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Forum Design Integration [6.2] Templated English FAQ

What is it?: An English FAQ that uses a template.

Why should I care?: If you've installed the table wrapper mod the FAQ page won't match the look and feel of the rest of your site.

Props to Omegatron for spotting a way to structure the script to make it more compatable with different servers

Example: Da FAQ

Props to Omegatron for finding an error in my original template! The attachment has been updated

Instructions: Backing up is good, not backing up is bad...

Copy the faq_english.php file to your threads directory, after you back up the original...

Copy the faq_english.tmpl file to your /templates/default directory.

Footnote: I looked at the faq_big5.php file and my eyes crossed. I may tackle the other FAQs later, but since most of my visitors speak some form of english I'm holding off on porting the rest. If / when I do I'll post the complete mod here.

Enjoy

This has been mentioned elsewhere that the FAQ files need some sort of make over just like this. Thanks for all the effort you put into it!

LOL!

I asked for it over at the Info Pop Threads support forum, but I didn't want to wait so I went ahead and did the conversion for the English FAQ. I will probably do the others later, I just hope I get to use my own versions for a while before Rick converts them

Oh, and it stll needs some work. There should be bookmarks to take you back to the top of the page at every Q and A block.

Now you need to grab my 'real time graemlins" mod from the other forum and work that bit of code into here, so it would display the accurate graemlins.

Just a note on this mod. Must be something about my server I guess. I installed this and it would not show the tablewrappers. Here is your file guts

// Require the library
require ("./main.inc.php");

// -------------
// Get the input
$Cat = get_input("Cat","get");

// ---------------------
// Grab the tablewrapper
$html = new html;
list($tbopen,$tbclose) = $html -> table_wrapper();

// ---------------------
// Send the page to them
$html = new html;
$html -> send_header("FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)",$Cat,0,0,0,0,"");

$phpurl = $config['phpurl'];

//------------------
// Send the template and footer.

include("$thispath/templates/$tempstyle/faq_english.tmpl");


$html -> send_footer();

I hade to change the order a bit to get tablewrappers to show.

// Require the library. Edit the path to the
// main.inc.php file if necessary.
require ("./main.inc.php");
// ---------------------
// Send the page to them

$html = new html;
$html -> send_header("FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)",$Cat,0,$user);

// ---------------------
// Grab the tablewrapper
list($tbopen,$tbclose) = $html -> table_wrapper();

$phpurl = $config['phpurl'];

//------------------
// Send the template and footer.

include("$thispath/templates/$tempstyle/faq_english.tmpl");


$html -> send_footer();

Yup, some of mine show broken links since I don't have some of the defaults

Hmmm... not sure why it didn't like $html = new html; being used twice, but moving the table wrappers code after the first $html = new html; works.

Both work on my site, so I'm going to change the zip file to your version.

Thanks for posting the fix!

Cool. I noticed that right away since the only difference was the tablewrappers call not being after the html call.

I was thinking of doing this one and you beat me to it.
I was playing around with this one the other day.

I wish you had beat me to it -it was a pain!

I was playing around with this yesterday and blew it up, but I really wanted to see it work so I made a second attempt

Don't worry I am going to help out I have german and french done. I am going to do spanish next!

Here is your english template with a few minor changes for XHTML Compliance. I also noted that the usertitle file is not read either. Must be because it is in the template. I changed it to a link. If someone knows how to get it to list that would be cool. Anyway you can download this file and compare it to yours and see the changes I made.

Very cool! I'll update the first post with your attachment

There is somethign else that you might want to do with your own files: I changed the email address hyperlink in my copy of the english FAQ to the contact form hyperlink. If you have Josh's contact form mod installed then it's a good idea to get the email addy out of the FAQ (one less place for spam crawlers to get an email address from).

Until Josh's mod becomes a standard part of Threads (nudge, nudge Rick ) we'll have to leave the email address hyperlink and variables in the FAQs that we release

good idea. Gonna go take care of it.

I installed this hack, but have an error in the FAQ that relates to User Titles. That entry now reads:

Here is the list of the standard titles and # of posts to achieve them:

readfile("/htdocs/mydomain.com/ubbthreads/filters/usertitles");

I checked the file it references, and it does exist, and it does contain the user titles. Why is it not being displayed?

I commented on this in a prior post to Dalantech.

Find the

<pre>

readfile("/htdocs/mydomain.com/ubbthreads/filters/usertitles");

</pre>

and replace with

<pre>

template;

readfile("{$config['path']}/filters/usertitles");

echo <<<template

</pre>

or if you like a few posts back I have the template posted that is XHTML compliant as well. Just download that TXT file and rename it.

<< or if you like a few posts back I have the template posted that is XHTML compliant as well. Just download that TXT file and rename it. >>

Ah, sorry for the confusion. I saw the comments about changes being made, and thought the original post had the updated download.

He was going to include the update but we do get busy at times

Sorry

The original post has been updated.

No need to be sorry.

Me thinks it cool that us old timers are beginning to understand enough to solve some minor problems and help answer peoples problems.

It must be a miraculous day if I can look at a few lines of code and see where the mistake is.

LOL!

Just glad I'm not so old that I think it's a miraculous day when I wake up breathing

LOL

Or have to wear a diaper again.

I wasn't gonna go there...

LOL