Name: Compact Headers Full

Description: Tightens up the headers of the pages, works well if your forum logo is in your header, not in the forum itself.

Author: Allen Ayres

Original Author: Skorpion (Jamin)

Demo: http://www.ubbdev.com/test/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi

Download: Click Here

Requires: DaysPruned Mod for the forum page.

Note: This is beta code, I haven't checked it yet, so expect a bug or 2. Let me know what you find and I'll update the zip.

Allen:

I downloaded the above file thinking it was a Hack MOD with a .txt file, but discovered that it contains a lot of .pl files. How do I utilize/implement these files?

upload these in your template directory but make sure to do this on an unhacked board (otherwise all templates modifications done by hacks will be lost)

of course make a backup beforehand

AA, I have it installed on my forum here:

http://norcalcycling.com/forum/ultimatebb.cgi

Seems to be a few display bugs on the Forum Summery Page. Any idea how to fix it? Check the "Topics" "Posts" "Last Post" and "Moderators" columns.

Thanks man... great hack. I've been waiting for this one!

Allen, I hate to ask, any way of getting say a multihack for those of us who have already modded the hell out of our boards?

I only briefly looked at your source but it seems that while your Post Indicators, Topics, Posts and Last Post columns had assigned "width" percentages to it your Forum and Moderator columns do not. More than likely you'll need to define the width for these two.

The other possibility would be that since you're using a 820px width you may need to define the columns not by percentages (5%), but by absolute intergers (10px).

hmm, ok, I'll chech that out. Thanks PT. Silly me, I just dropped the files into my DIR and left it at that.

I should be able to use %. Is it only the "public_forum_page.pl" and "public_forum_summery.pl" that use the tables?

Thanks!

PT's got it right I hadn't counted on people using fixed widths

Gizzy, I don't have one made - you can use Beyond Compare to add the changes in if you like, it's most every public .pl file at the top except the public_common.pl file where it's in several places.

Thanks AA. So: "public_forum_page.pl" and "public_forum_summery.pl" are the only files I need to modify?

the summary page should be the only one you need to modify to get the widths on those columns straight.

hmmm... I left out the 'days pruned' links for the forum page. I'll need to fix that. I'd recommend setting it in the cp to 1000 or 'show all' - it makes the site look busy for slower sites and saves bandwidth for all sites because the cache gets hit more often (thereby loading the pages using the phpaccelerator). I think I'll go that way and add the instructions to this to make it do that from the start. It will keep the forum page cleaner up top

ok, updated instrcutions up top, you'll need to use this:
http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=33;t=000009

woohoo... I think I got it. Now to install the 'days pruned' thing setup.

how'd it go? It'd looking good so far

Yup...It is looking good Stilgar. You got the aligment working now.

Thanks guys. I still need to do the same thing to the Forum categories and topic lists. Which files are they? "public_forum_page.pl"? What other one?

that's 98% of it

LOL, thanks.

Hey AA, PT or other knowlegable people. Where might I look to fix these two little bugs:

http://norcalcycling.com/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=1;DaysPrune=365

the tables widths. What file has them.?

at the bottom the post folder key doesn't show all the symbols.

only running this hack (compact headers).

TIA!

in the icon legend table? everything looks good to me

Looks fine on my browser as well. I'm not on 6.5 but I think that the "Legend" icons show up dynamically. This means that when a new folder or sticky icon is used (by a post) your Icon Legend will reflect those changes.