| Re: New forum style and functionality [message #161076 is a reply to message #161067] |
Thu, 12 November 2009 22:25   |
Ernesto
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Registered: August 2005
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Sure, but it's rather ugly hehe.
What I did was that I created a special forum called "Site Content" - I hid this forum from the users, so they can read it, but its not visible.
I then checked what ID that forum had.
Then I just added IF statements in the template system, to draw the messages in that specific forum differently from all the others.
So in drawmsg.tmpl it would look like this under the message_entry field:
{SECTION: message_entry}
{IF: ($obj->forum_id == 118 || $obj->forum_id == 119)}
{TEMPLATE: dmsg_news_post}
{ELSE}
{IF: ($obj->forum_id == 124)}
{TEMPLATE: dmsg_downloads_post}
{ELSE}
{TEMPLATE: dmsg_regular_post}
{END}
{SECTION: END}
Then I just added sub templates which contains the layouts.
In the downloads section, I wanted the first post to look different than the rest of the posts in the topic - simple IF statement again and shabaam, Stylized first post, with simple styled comments to the main thing:
{SECTION: dmsg_downloads_post}
{IF: ($obj->root_msg_id == $obj->id && $obj->forum_id == 124)}
<tr><td></td><td>
<div style="padding: 3px; margin: 0px 2px; border: 0px solid #aaaaaa; background: none;">
<span style="float: right;">{TEMPLATE-DATA: edit_link} {IF: $perms & 32}[ <a href="{TEMPLATE: dmsg_delete_link_lnk}">Delete</a> ]{ENDIFI}</span>
{IF: $obj->icon}<div class="img_shadow"><img src="images/message_icons/{VAR: obj->icon}" alt="{VAR: r[3]}" align="left" style="padding: 0px;"/></div>{ENDIF}
{TEMPLATE-DATA: drawmsg_file_attachments}
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<div style="position: relative; left: 71px;clear: right;" class="img_shadow">
<div class="img_shadow_div" style="width: 506px; padding: 10px 5px; background-color:#FCFCFC; background-image:url({THEME_IMAGE_ROOT}/content_bg.jpg); background-position:right top; background-repeat:no-repeat;">{TEMPLATE-DATA: msg_body}</div></div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<div style="position: relative; width: 630px;">
<!-- <span style="color: #666666;font-size: 9pt;">Written by {VAR: user_login} {TEMPLATE: dmsg_post_date}</span>
<br> -->
</div>
</div></td><td>
</td></tr>
{ELSE}
{TEMPLATE: dmsg_news_comment}
{END}
{SECTION: END}
Something like that. When I started all that, FUD didn't have the plugin system it has now, maybe it would have been possible to do something similair but much better with that.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention - In the news post thing, it has to be sorted in a reversed order, so you have to also edit the thread.php.t file I think and add an IF statement about the forum ID there aswell, to sort it reversed, I did it like this, on row 21 in my version of the forum:
if ($frm->id == 118 || $frm->id == 124) {
$sort_order = 't.id';
} ELSE {
$sort_order = 'tv.seq';
}
$result = q('SELECT
m.attach_cnt, m.poll_id, m.subject, m.icon, m.post_stamp,
u.alias, u.id,
u2.id, u2.alias,
m2.id, m2.post_stamp,
f.id, f.name,
t.id, t.moved_to, t.root_msg_id, t.replies, t.rating, t.thread_opt, t.views,
r.last_view, t.n_rating, t.tdescr
FROM {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}tv_'.$frm_id.' tv
INNER JOIN {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}thread t ON tv.thread_id=t.id
INNER JOIN {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}msg m ON t.root_msg_id=m.id
INNER JOIN {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}msg m2 ON m2.id=t.last_post_id
LEFT JOIN {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}users u ON u.id=m.poster_id
LEFT JOIN {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}users u2 ON u2.id=m2.poster_id
LEFT JOIN {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}forum f ON f.id=t.moved_to
LEFT JOIN {SQL_TABLE_PREFIX}read r ON t.id=r.thread_id AND r.user_id='._uid.'
WHERE tv.seq BETWEEN '.($lwi - ($cur_frm_page * $THREADS_PER_PAGE) + 1).' AND '.($lwi - (($cur_frm_page - 1) * $THREADS_PER_PAGE)).'
ORDER BY ' . $sort_order . ' DESC');
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