I asked this question before and somebody gave me a 1 line code/instruction on how to do it. I need more. Can somebody please help me.

I just want on the main forum page to be able to change the solid color of my forum to a background graphic. Please help. Thanks.

Try this hack

HACK NAME : Category background image.

VERSION: 1.0 - 11/28/2000

DESCRIPTION : Puts a image instead of just a color for the Category header.

AUTHOR : N/A

PROPOSED BY : I think CWM

ORINGAL HACK : unknown by me

DEMO : http://www.subzeroland.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
http://www.quake3world.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
CREDITS : CWM for the Great Idea, and a special thanks to Spawn for the help
*cough* and most of the hacking,,hehe.
REQUIREMENTS : A full version of the UBB.
This version has only been tested to work on UBB v5.46. It may work on slightly earlier versions, but has not been tested.

DOWNLOAD URL : http://www.subzerolan.com/bgimage.zip

Edited files; Ultimate.cgi, Forumdisplay.cgi and ubb_library2.pl

SUPPORT : [email protected]


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: Like always, make backups of your ubb incase this doesn't work for you.
*When you find the url "http://www.yourdomain.com/ubb/tablebg.gif" you will have to edit this for your own
board.*


*Open Ultimate.cgi*
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Find this:
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if ($CategoriesOnly ne "true") {
# check Forum Total option--
if ($ForumTotalOption eq "Topics") {
$TopRow = qq(
Topics
);

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Replace with:
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if ($CategoriesOnly ne "true") {
# check Forum Total option--
if ($ForumTotalOption eq "Topics") {
$TopRow = qq(
Topics
);

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Find this:
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elsif ($ForumTotalOption eq "Posts") {
$TopRow = qq(
Posts
);
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Replace with:
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elsif ($ForumTotalOption eq "Posts") {
$TopRow = qq(
Posts
);
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Find this:
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$TopRow = qq(
Topics

Posts
);
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Replace with:
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$TopRow = qq(
Topics

Posts
);
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Find this:
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unless ($ShowMods eq 'no') { # display mod column unless set to No in CP
$modcolumn = qq(

Moderator

);# end qq
}
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Replace with:
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unless ($ShowMods eq 'no') { # display mod column unless set to No in CP
$modcolumn = qq(

Moderator

);# end qq
}
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Find this:
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$BorderTop





$TopRow

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Replace with:
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$BorderTop

$ForumHeader

Last Post

$TopRow

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Find this:
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sub ForumTableTop2 {
print<


$BorderTop

$ForumHeader

Last Post

TableTop2
}
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Replace with:
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sub ForumTableTop2 {
print<


$BorderTop

$LastLoginTime
Forum Categories	Total Forums

TableTop2
}

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Save Ultimate.cgi file and open Forumdisplay.cgi
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Find this:
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$BorderTop

$LastLoginTime
Forum Categories	Total Forums

$IconFieldHeader




OtherMiddle
} ## END Middle HTML for Topic Page

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Replace with:
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$BorderTop

Topic

Topic Starter

Replies

Last Post

$IconFieldHeader




OtherMiddle
} ## END Middle HTML for Topic Page
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Save forumdisplay and open ubb_library2.pl
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Find this:
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$BorderTop

Topic

Topic Starter

Replies

Last Post

);
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Replace with:
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$BorderTop

Author

Topic: $TopicSubject

);
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Save ubb_library2.pl and upload all three files to your site.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
and I think your done
You can take this hack further and do the postings.cgi file. I didn't document that because I didn't like the
way it looked.

Author

Topic: $TopicSubject