Sidebar(s) in forums?

[FeaR]

the left column shows up underneath the forums, not on top.

[FeaR]

also im not sure if im doing this right on the last part. I only want the left column on forums. Do i still have to change the FORUMHOME thing.....

[btappan]

Originally Posted by Brian

Thank you for the compliments.

As for integration, check this section of the user's manual.

http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersare...tid=4&pageid=6

what happen to this page? its GONE! i need it...............

[1996 328ti]

Are you taking about this?
http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersare...tid=4&pageid=6

[btappan]

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

Are you taking about this?
http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersare...tid=4&pageid=6

yeah, the link must have changed cuz the one i put up is from the forst post, Thanks!

[btappan]

does anyone else have this sucsessfully implemented on their forum home with 3.0.6? I just upgraded and can't for the life of me get this to work now. My forum ends up on the left and really narrow, and the modules follow in a column underneath that. I've check to ensure that the Cutom page content is enabled for the page and everything and that it is set for the center column. Anybody? please help

[1996 328ti]

I have a side bar on my entire forum.
I did nothing except run the cmps install and selected the link to update templates.

[btappan]

I unistalled and reinstalled and now it's like i posted above, cant do anything to fix it either that i have found. I even reverted all the templates, still no fix

[btappan]

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

I have a side bar on my entire forum.
I did nothing except run the cmps install and selected the link to update templates.

My only possible explantaion is that one of the templates in vb 3.0.6 has a misplaced tag or something and your modified templates were not overwritten. Mine were, and now this thing does not work. anybody have a test forum to check this out on?

[maniac]

Originally Posted by btappan

does anyone else have this sucsessfully implemented on their forum home with 3.0.6? I just upgraded and can't for the life of me get this to work now. My forum ends up on the left and really narrow, and the modules follow in a column underneath that. I've check to ensure that the Cutom page content is enabled for the page and everything and that it is set for the center column. Anybody? please help

I was running into the same problem on 3.0.5 and found this on this site somewhere (can't remember where), But basically, follow the instructions on the User Manual by adding:

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'include');

at the top of your php page and then replacing the appropriate "eval" line with:

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('FORUMHOME') . '";');
print_portal_output($home, $HTML);

where FORUMHOME is the name of the template you want to display.

For example, for showthread.php replace:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('SHOWTHREAD') . '");');

with

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('SHOWTHREAD') . '";');
print_portal_output($home, $HTML);

[maniac]

Brian,

I've managed to get this to work like a charm on my forums (as you can tell by previous post) but now I want to add an additional module to my pages as a popUp to one of the navBar items (like the default Quick Links and search box)

I already have the popUp in place and working with some static content, but, instead of that static content I want to display one of my cmps modules.

I tried putting the template name in place of my static content but got no results. Do you have any idea how I can do this?

Thanks in advance

[btappan]

Originally Posted by maniac

I was running into the same problem on 3.0.5 and found this on this site somewhere (can't remember where), But basically, follow the instructions on the User Manual by adding:

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'include');

at the top of your php page and then replacing the appropriate "eval" line with:

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('FORUMHOME') . '";');
print_portal_output($home, $HTML);

where FORUMHOME is the name of the template you want to display.

For example, for showthread.php replace:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('SHOWTHREAD') . '");');

with

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('SHOWTHREAD') . '";');
print_portal_output($home, $HTML);

so what was ur fix? the code you posted is the same from the manual. it doesnt work. i've tried it for FORUMHOME , SHOWTHREAD , and SEARCH and it still is messed up.

[btappan]

okay, here is the fix:

Originally Posted by Brian

Try looking for this code in your forum/includes/vba_cmps_include_bottom.php file:

PHP Code:

                if ($mods['identifier'] == 'custompage' AND $pages['template'])
                {
                    $cusid = $mods['modid'];
                    eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] = "' . fetch_template($pages['template']) . '";');
                } 


Replace it with this:

PHP Code:

                if ($mods['identifier'] == 'custompage')
                {
                    $cusid = $mods['modid'];
                    if ($pages['template'])
                    {
                        eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] = "' . fetch_template($pages['template']) . '";');
                    }
                } 


And let me know if that solves the problem.

[Andy R]

Originally Posted by btappan

I'm currentley building my forums and have this sidebar on most pages. the only one giving me a problem is the showthread page. right now i have the default style i'm trying to apply this to and on this page the postbit overstretches the fixed 755 width.

any suggestions?

Anyone seen a fix for this. My showthread is the only page that is extending too far to the right just like mentioned above..
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/atta...&stc=1&thumb=1

[wildondallas]

Originally Posted by golfrewind

Is there a solution for photopost yet? I would like to install a sidebar onto the photopost index as well.

me too

Also, has anyone figure out how to get the left column displayed in the calendar pages?

[kyzen]

Originally Posted by organic hosting

Anyone seen a fix for this. My showthread is the only page that is extending too far to the right just like mentioned above..
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/atta...&stc=1&thumb=1

Can you post the whole page mate?

[breaume]

Its from this post in this same thread on page 2.

I am having the same issue it can be seen here.

[zenithrs@bigpon]

Brian, I'm one of those "want the left blocks on every page" kind of dudes. I added them to newreply.php as per http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersare...tid=4&pageid=6 but it breaks the WYSIWYG editor in Firefox. It doesn't break it in IE though. Any clues why this would be?

[zenithrs@bigpon]

Actually I tracked this down. The adv_portal template doesn't have the $onload variable in the <body> tag. So I added that, but with no result. Had to edit line 79 of vba_cmps_include_bottom.php to include $onload in the global statement.

All fine now. I've no idead why IE wasn't affected though.

[Samir]

I've had a sidebar running on my site on the forum home for quite a while now. I have the left column size set to 145, but when the browser window size is reduced, the module box scales instead of staying at 145. My home page has fixed columns for both left and right at 185 and they don't change. I tried changing the 145 to 185 just to see what it would do. It changes in size when browser is full screen, still scales when window size reduced.

Here's a couple of links to help explain it:
Site home page: www.huntsvillecarscene.com - try to reduce the window size--the columns remain at 185
Forum home page: http://www.huntsvillecarscene.com/forum.php - try the same thing--the site navigation sidebar will shrink below its setting of 145.

Anyone have any ideas? Any assistance appreciated.