Like Compact Headers, this is basically a mod that streamlines chunks of UBB's table layout. This one deals with (big surprise) the bottom portion of the UBB.
I would like to say that I, honestly, am not very happy with the current way I did the Forum Page and the Topic Page - it really seems like they could be streamlined more somehow. But I'm stuck. If you've got any ideas, please let me know.
Update: Version 1.21 has been released. 1.2: Changes include fixed spacing between the tables in a couple of the files. This also fixes the alignment bug with the Hop To box in forum_page. (1.21 fixes more problems with the Hop To box.)
Anyway, here are links:
INSTRUCTIONS -
http://www.se7enet.com/ubb/index.shtml DEMO -
http://www.se7enet.com/site/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi (Note: The version on my own site is significantly different than the one in the zips. Use this as a demo of the sizes only - what you see on my site isn't what you get in the hack.)
---Skorpion
[ 09-28-2001: Message edited by: Skorpion ]
maybe it is just me but if you had "New Post" in the left cell then "All Times are..." in the center cell and "No New Post" in right cell it would look better and maybe if you put the:
Powered by Infopop Corporation
Ultimate Bulletin Board 6.04a
in the left cell of the other table and the
Contact us in the center cell and then your copyright in the right cell. it is just me but i think that would go better then maybe make the 2 tables touch at the top
looks good thanks! but....
http://www.blizzardrealms.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=3 the bottem of the main page looks awsome but the bottem of the forum pages need a little work
keep up the good work!
This I know.
M2sc - thanks for the ideas. I'll keep playing around with stuff that you suggested and stuff that I come up with later, and see what I can do.
---Skorpion
thanks for considering
my ideas
Version 1.1 has been released. Check the original topic for details.
---Skorpion
w00t! looks way better! but i was thinking... any way you could put that hope to drop down menu in one of the tables?
Well, I tried that. And the problem with it is, that thing actually takes double the space you see. For some reason there is a chunk of blank space under it that can't be removed, that is about the size of another line. I've tried putting it in the table, and it adds a bunch of extra height that isn't needed, which is why the previous design looked so cluttered I think.
Also, in the initial redraw I did, I had it inside the table and had that whole thing on one big line. But it was too wide for 800x600 resolutions, so I had to shorten it. By moving the Hop To box under the table, there's a lot more space that won't cause h-scrolls in lower rez's.
Trust me - if I could get into a table and still have it look even *decent*, I would do it. But it's either outside the table or be too wide for low rez's.
---Skorpion
looks a lot better not and the editing does not take near as long as your Compact Headers
how can i get it to look like this?
http://www.m2sc.com/want.gif
You can't get it to look like that, without adding a TON of extra work.
The only way to actually connect the two rows like that, would be to remove the table closer tag in public_forum_summary.pl, and remove the table opener tag in public_common.pl. And by removing the table opener in common.pl, you would render that table completely useless to every other view of the forum. The only way to actually make the table work, from then on, is to add an extra table opener tag into every other public template file. If you felt like you absolutely needed to do that, and had the time, I suppose this would be possible. But IMHO it's really way too much unnecessary work.
As for simply moving the location of the buttons/functions in the top row: just switch the contents of the second and third cells, and make it so the second cell has the width="100%" attribute instead of the third one.
---Skorpion
[ April 16, 2001 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Skorpion ]
bummer that looks good. to bad we cant get it to look like that
i might do it when i have time
Got a question! How did you get your copyright statememnt to be like 2 lines...I pressed enter for my copyright...but it still shows it as one line...
I did this hack in about 5 mintues...very breezy! Thanks
I have another problem....when you go into one of the forums...the "hop to" box exceeds the other ones....its like longer than all of themm
...------------...
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...------------...
thats what it looks like.
Patrick, please post a link to your forums so I can see what exactly you're talking about.
---Skorpion
Very Nice!!
But I got the same thing as Patrick!
[ April 21, 2001 08:08 PM: Message edited by: d0mmy ]
Alright, I will be looking for this problem soon. Trouble is, I don't seem to be having it. What resolution are you two running at? And what browser are you viewing it in? This will help me better troubleshoot the problem.
Thanks!
---Skorpion
IE 5.5, 1024x768
Ill ask other members of my board if they see it too.
1280x1024, IE6
and everybody sees it, but i temporarly deleted the `Go` part, and it looks good too!
Yeah I don't use that anyways...is there a way I can just take it out?
A man of my own heart!!!
Man, I hate that Hop To box!!!
Open public_forum_page.pl, find:
And delete that.
---Skorpion
[ April 22, 2001 03:52 PM: Message edited by: Skorpion ]
One more question for ya....well my icon backround is black (thats what my page bg is) so on the footer....that is a differnet color...so my icons look really bad...because they are not transparent...which would be easier..trying to change the color of that strip? or make the icon transparent?
yo Skorpion that Hope To Box thing is not in my public_forum_page.pl???? are you sure that is the file?
and also were do i add the text for the lower right hand corner box?
would be easier to make the images transparent this would save tons of time having to edit the files
can someone help me with my above posts?
if you already added the template the comment got taken out and was change from a table by itself to a cell next to the other stuff look for hop and it will find it
i still cant find the hope to box code any were and it is on the forum! and also were do i put the text for the bottem right hand corner box?
the new code in the public_topic_page.pl for the hop to box is
|
nobody uses it anyways...
that will make it look better =)
Amen to that, acidbox! I firmly stand by my conclusion that the Hop To box is evil!
---Skorpion
Any chance you could make an SHW file (Script Hack Wizard) for this hack? This is a HUGE hack, and when 6.1 comes out, we'll have to add it again ;0 ahhhhhhhh
Compact Footers is huge?! Um, it's only like three files. I suppose I'll make one, tho, just for kicks and giggles. Eventually...
Compact Headers is the huge one. That one is for all the public templates. I think that may be the one you're talking about.
---Skorpion
Ya........ i posted in the wrong thread..... I meant to post in compact headers.... an SHW file for that would be nice =)
Actually.. It only took me 12 minutes to install Compact Headers [full] .. its just copying and pasting and you really dont have to search for anything because it is all at the top of each template and most of each thing is short..
Version 1.2 has been released.
Check the original topic for details.
is there a file for those who want to upgrade from 1.1?
cuz i already installed it and i want to upgrade it from 1.1
ok forget the above post i put..i upgraded already
ok but now i have a little html problem
the bottom looks messed up
but the other pages look fine such as my main ubb page
whats wrong?
[ June 08, 2001 08:29 PM: Message edited by: SK8285 ]
ok for the above post i re-edited my forum_page.pl and put the old Footers 1.1 hack back for that file and it looks much better but now i came across the hop to box problem again
i want it OUT
i hate it
i tried what M2sc-com said and how to take it out but it didnt work...i deleted it from the page he said but it was still there i cleared the cache and it was still there
plz help i want the hop to box out!!!!!
in public_forum_page.pl
Find and delete:
I will take a look at the forum_page problem tonight when I get home. The hop to box was a very quick fix, and quite honestly I didn't do much testing on it. It looked fine on my test board, so I called it good. I will go back in tonight and redo it to make it correct.
Also, tonight I'll be updating the full distribution file to contain two copies of topic_page.pl - one with Hop To, one without it. So wait till tonight when I get home from work, and I will get the problems fixed asap.
---Skorpion
ok the template files u are giving for d/l with both compact header and footer installed is what version of ubb...
is it ubb 6.04e or something lower
They are from 6.04F.
In every version since 6.03, there have barely been any changes to the templates, so for the most part any files from any of the versions that fall within that range are interchangeable with other versions. If you are seriously concerned with incompatibility, just upgrade to the latest version before you install them.
---Skorpion
ok i kinda fixed the hop to box in the forum_page.pl template
so it doesnt extend out of the original size of my ubb and now it looks nice...and i want to say
Skorpion, this is a great hack
[ June 08, 2001 08:32 PM: Message edited by: SK8285 ]
Alright, Compact Footers has been updated to version 1.21. This is just a very quick update that should fix any problems associated with the Hop To box in forum_page.
To upgrade, you'll need to just replace the entire $page_bottom subroutine in public_forum_page.pl. (Everything from my $page_bottom = qq~ to ~; inclusively.)
I've also updated the template distribution file to include two forum_page versions: one with Hop To, and one without it. Check the readme for more info. If you downloaded the template distro file within the last 24 hours, just redownload it and recopy public_forum_page.pl or the no-hop-to version (be sure to read the readme!!).
Hope this fixes the problem. Lemme know if there are still bugs.
---Skorpion
i am tring to get the rate topic to go along side the Hop to drop down box heres what i think is right but i may be wrong let me know?
Rate Topic add on with out compact footer hack
Rate Topic with compact footer:
I think this is correct but i could be wrong, i know they in the same table but not sure if it will work (Not HTML Savy)
[ June 14, 2001 09:05 AM: Message edited by: Loki ]
Best way to find out is to try it.
---Skorpion
Lo Skorpion i just love this hack it's pritty dam kewl... I just have a couple of problems... how i resolve this??
Look!! (with banners) the footer seems to have a slight problem
If i remove the banner the problem is still there
See!! (without the banner) And finally... how i sort those buttons out?? Post Reply and New Topic??
Cheers Pal...
Have a beer on me
[ June 15, 2001 11:27 PM: Message edited by: UltraNEO* ]
Looks like you did something wrong in public_topic_page. Cuz it all looks fine in other views.
What do you mean sort out the topic/reply buttons?
---Skorpion
Erm... i guess you ain't got a Mac Skorpion...
When browsing the forum on a Mac, both the 'new topic' and 'reply' buttons are on top of each other and the are out of allienment. Would youlike to tell me wich section or templete i need to edit to correct this problem? Other than that... this crack is really kewl!
The buttons appear to be fine on the PC version, i wonder why....
Thanks again
It already contains the NOWRAP attribute in the table cell, which is *supposed* to keep the cell from wrapping down, as it apparently is doing for you.
It could possibly be that Mac browser simply doesn't support the NOWRAP attribute, which is something I have no control over.
The only thing I can think of, is go into public_topic_page, and removing NOWRAP from the TD tag, and adding ... tags just inside the cell that contains the buttons (ie.
whatever | ). That also works I think - but I'm not sure. I seem to remember having mixed results with it... may not be supported by all browsers, even for PC, or something.
---Skorpion
Zip File Compact Footer and Header
work not in 6.0f.
Thunder33
The zip file was made from 6.04F templates. It does work.
If you'll be a little bit more specific as to the problem you're having, I'll be more than happy to try to help solve it.
---Skorpion
I've got a problem with this one. I also installed the "rate topic" hack, so the code in public_topic_page.pl looks a bit different, and i can't get this hack done. Anyone?
look a couple of posts above i think someone tried to solve the problem of the rate topic
Is there a way to add UBB CPU Cycle to this so you dont have to modify all the files?
Skorp - Very nice job on the templates and of course, the inspiring se7enet!
Just wanted to let you know that the instructions for public_topic_page.pl are wrong (looks like a typo)
just fyi
it currently says to replace the code with this
Code removed by Skorpion to keep page layout intact. Again Just FYI
- They are correct in your templates download (of course)
Not that it really matters since 6.1 is just around the corner :raisetheroof:
[ July 19, 2001 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Skorpion ]
Thanks for the heads up, freakscene! Allen showed me another error in Compact Headers too, so I'll try to get those two fixed tonight. (Since I'm not planning on spending another six hours on YourStyle tonight, I might have a chance at actually getting some other work done! :D)
Thanks for the kind words on Se7enet too!
Man, I can't wait for 6.1 (and Se7enet 2.0!)
---Skorpion
Yea that was a long night. Especially with AO[hel]L.
i installed it bt it messes up and skorp your links in the database for the compact footers dont work at all besides the txt file !!!!
i have the cpu thing already istnall could that mess it up !
Due to Code Red attacking one of the upstream providers for my host(
), my site is essentially down for right now. The links in the database are right, but they won't work until the site goes back up.
---Skorpion
How can i view a demo???
Can Anybody here send it to me????
contact me at:
http://huuthangkid.dk3.com or mail:
[email protected]
do not provide support to NHThang!! He is running a pirated UBB. How do i know? Go check se7enet and see for yourself, there he tried to get jamin to send him this very hack and he himself said that he didnt have a license.
http://www.se7enet.com/site/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000031 is the direct link.
The place you download them from seems to be gone.
Click on 'Hacks' in Jamin's signature.
DEMO!?
edit: sorry, i didn't read all posts
Hmmm can't download it anymore, all files missing.
Allen, that link doesn't have the new 6.2 versions, and it seems that the URL that Jamin uses is no longer existant..
There is no 6.2 version.
---Jamin
Sorry.. My bad..
Are we ever going to see this ported to 630??
~Speedy~
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