UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Forum Design Integration IIP SideBarPal 1.1

Ian are you using a percentage table width in your theme file - or a fixed width. There was a bug in My home using the table wrappers and a fixed table width. The side bar accentuates that issue.

100% table width - and 20% for the sidebar. It was all apeearing fine, until I tried to change the stylesheet, and then it threw it out. Strangely enough I spotted the proflepal appearing, then I went to 'my home', and it suddenly vanished

[]Okay in sidebar_leftopen.tmpl - it causes ubbthreads.php to be centred from top to bottom in Opera. Displays fine in IE.

Changing <td align="center" valign="top"> to <td valign="top"> eliminates this problem.
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This problem is also here on Threadsdev - all pages are centred in the main box under opera 7.11, with the sidebarpal set to the left.

Thanks for finding that. I knew Opera didn't display the same as IE and Mozilla.

I just downloaded Opera yesterday to try this out. One more browser to add to my collection when checking design issues for different browsers. I usually just check IE,Netscape and Mozilla.

The one thing I notice about the Opera browser is that it renders images slower than IE at all the others. For me thats a downside to using that browser. Has alot of nice toys(tools) to play with though.

[]Just installed this on our test site - and all looks great except in 'my home' the 'post remnders', 'favourite threads', and 'main configuration' boxes are being displayed beneath the sidebar, when it is set to the left.

If the sidebar is set to the right, the page displays fine.

I can't find any errors. I am running 6.3b4, using the stock IP supplied themes.

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Okay - this was caused by an error in myhome.tmpl.

Changed this

<!-- END ONLINE LOOP -->
</table>
</td>
</tr>
$tbclose


to this


<!-- END ONLINE LOOP -->
$tbclose
</td>
</tr>
</table>

and the page now displays fine

My only issue now is the profile spotlight vanishing

Profile spotlight? You know Ian I had noticed that as well yesterday but had not said anything yet on that. I have had this installed for a while but just never noticed it and then when you say something I figured I would speak up as it seems to be more than just random chance as this is not related to only one site.

I can't see this mentioned in this thread, but the template files have a line missing


<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="{$config['phpurl']}/pals/java/javapal.php"></script>

If this is missing then a runtime error will occur, when hovering over status icons to alter the settings.

more fun:

when sidebar is on the right, the </body></html> tags are missing

Allen my site validates with the sidebar on the right or left

ugh, then it's something 'special' we have here

Here we have the "work in progress" that JustDave did - which is where I swiped it from.

There's small handfull of buglets and issues here, but I've been holding off doing any major construction knowing that 6.3 will be stable soon enough and It'll be time to swing the wrecking ball around in here a bit again.

Ain't nothing easy, Don't ya just love those sneaky tough little buggers.

I have a problem with the sidebar actually appearing. The ubbthreads.php will shift either left or right depending on the sidebar setting. Any ideas on where to look to check the code?

Not sure I follow? Do you have a link?

Here is the link:

http://www.siforums.com/threads/ubbthreads.php?Cat=

It appears just like the page is formatted for the sidebar except that it is blank where the sidebar should be. I was thinking about doing a fresh install of 6.3 and adding the sidebar mod again.

Probably best. The sidebar mod is written for 6.3.

Josh, I think I'll do a fresh install of 6.3 and do the sidebar later - thanks

Okay, I just about have this dialed in on 6.2.3 It displays the side bar just fine, the only problem is when I let it automatically refresh i.e. Who's Online page I get this error (I will try to post it so it doesn't make a huge line Josh )

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vhfansco/public_html/boards/templates/default/ubbt_header.tmpl:17) in /home/vhfansco/public_html/boards/ubbt.inc.php on line 1757

Ah - sorry I missed this.

I actually had this happen to me on one server I installed this on - not sure why. Some servers don't like using the authenticate step more than once.

When I get a moment I'll look back and see if I can find how I fixed it. LOL I did find a way around this.

Stay tuned.

Cool, thanks Josh.

Updated the mod to version 1.1 fixing the issue.

https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/showflat.php?Number=75896

Works like a champ Josh, thanks for taking the time to help me out with this. I have no idea why my server has an issue with that but your fix took care of it

he he

You got lucky. I was installing this for a client last night and had the same problem - so I was forced to re-figure it out sooner than later.

I think we broke the Hot Topic pal at 95 and it's been getting posts like mad today too, now it suddenly went back to "No posts have caught fire as of yet"

Hi...

i've a problem... i add die IIP 5.3.1 und then the IIP SidebarPal 1.1 die IIP 5.3.1.. still works... but the SidebarPal 1.1 dont works or it is better to say its not shown... when i set it to left or right in the user-settings it will not comes... i look for mistakes in the Files 3 times but all is right...

Greetings Baby D

I would double check your hacking and also remember the sidebar must be set to on in the theme config and it must be set on in the user's profile.

Note that for a hot topic to qualify as a hot topic..... it has to be started within 24 hours. So if an existing active thread continues to get lots of replies.... it won't be a hot topic if it's more than 24 hours old.

[]JoshPet said:
Note that for a hot topic to qualify as a hot topic..... it has to be started within 24 hours. So if an existing active thread continues to get lots of replies.... it won't be a hot topic if it's more than 24 hours old. [/]

Ahh, that would explain it. Thanks Josh.

Curious. I installed it but when I go to the display preference in My Home I get the following SQL error:


SQL ERROR: Unable to do_query: SELECT U_Sort,U_Display,U_View,U_PostsPer,U_TextCols,U_TextRows,U_StyleSheet,U_Preview,U_PictureView,U_PicturePosts,U_Language,U_FlatPosts,U_TimeOffset,U_FrontPage,U_ActiveThread,U_StartPage,U_ShowSigsSELECT U_Sort,U_Display,U_View,U_PostsPer,U_TextCols,U_TextRows,U_StyleSheet,U_Preview,U_PictureView,U_PicturePosts,U_Language,U_FlatPosts,U_TimeOffset,U_FrontPage,U_ActiveThread,U_StartPage,U_ShowSigs,U_SideBar FROM w3t_Users WHERE U_Username = 'bergmanb'
Unknown column 'U_ShowSigsSELECT' in 'field list'
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/tampains/public_html/ubbthreads/mysql.inc.php on line 131

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/tampains/public_html/ubbthreads/mysql.inc.php:217) in /home/tampains/public_html/ubbthreads/ubbt.inc.php on line 245



In the middle of the page I also get that "We cannot proceed" "We could not find your profile 'bergmanb' "

When I click on any other edit link in My Home I don't get any errors. I only get errors for the Display Preference edit link.

Anyone have a clue?

-Buddy

Looks like you pasted something twice. SELECT should be the begining of the query... U_ShowSigs was the end of the old query. You are supposed to simply add U_SideBar to the end.. but you've pasted the whole thing so the query starts over.

Start fresh and go through your steps near that query.

Hey that did it. Looks like I had that SELECT line in there twice, one right after the other on the same line. I dont know how that happened.

Thanks Josh. (now what about the subforum hack?)

-Buddy

I have not done a subforum hack.... and have no plans to (unless someone hires me to develop one).
I think JustDave has done some research in this area before and probably has the leg up on making this one happen.

Josh, is there a way that I can set the sidebar to be defaulted off? But, the user can turn it on in their profile?

The way it's working for me now is if I leave it blank in the theme config, it can't even be turned on in the profile.....

How difficult would it be to change this? Thanks for any insight!

You have to choose either left/right in the profile... because off won't work. This will be the default for new users from that point on.

But you can do an SQL Query to turn off existing users:

UPDATE w3t_Users
SET U_SideBar = 0


That should do it.

I guess what I was saying was that I didn't want ANY user, specifically new users, to have the sidebar, unless they choose it from the profile? Guess that's not possible?

Nope

TRAGIC! Thanks though!

The whole thing would need to be reworked..... because it uses 0 for the sidebar being off - but if it's 0 (or non existant in the theme file) it takes the option away.