2 Column Forum Layout

[st0ne]

I would also be interested in this. I was able to acheive this with vbulletin when i had it. I'm trying to get a similar look with the prosilver_se theme that you obtailed with your theme on 6 strings.

any help would be appreciated

[JohanNL]

You mean:

removing


and just holding the forum images (set in the ACP)? Or have special read/unread icons, like here?

[kenny]

Try this

If you want to get rid of the normal read/unread icons, you need to do a bit of CSS duplication and a small edit to forumlist_body.html - here's how it's done on 6SM.

OPEN: forumlist_body.html
FIND:

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   <!-- IF not forumrow.S_IS_CAT -->
      <li class="row">
         <dl class="icon" style="background-image: url({forumrow.FORUM_FOLDER_IMG_SRC}); background-repeat: no-repeat;">
            <dt title="{forumrow.FORUM_FOLDER_IMG_ALT}">

REPLACE WITH:

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   <!-- IF not forumrow.S_IS_CAT -->
      <li class="row">
<!--         <dl class="icon" style="background-image: url({forumrow.FORUM_FOLDER_IMG_SRC}); background-repeat: no-repeat;">   -->
         <dl class="icons">
            <dt title="{forumrow.FORUM_FOLDER_IMG_ALT}">

OPEN: content.css
FIND:

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li.header dl.icon dt {
   /* Tweak for headers alignment when folder icon used */
   padding-left: 0;
   padding-right: 50px;
}

AFTER ADD:

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li.header dl.icons dt {
   /* Tweak for headers alignment when folder icon used */
   padding-left: 0;
   padding-right: 4px;
}

From memory that's all I changed and should work

Purge the cache and refresh your theme afterwards

[st0ne]

Thanks -
I will give it a try, and let you know how it works out

[kenny]

I try searching on google and find out this page!! An awesome forum!

It's definitely useful to me. Uhm, if you don't mind, could you please show me how to change your code to be compatible with phpbb 3.0.4? i don't know why, but it doesn't show my topics in a sub forum.

Thank you.

My site: http://eeedit.com/phpbb304/

Oh, and could you tell me how to make it to three column layout?

[kenny]

The does does work with 3.0.4 fine, the display issue is somewhere in the CSS i think. I very hacky way to solve this, is to make sure that your forum descriptions are all the same or a similar lenghth. Eg. They all fit into 1 line, that way everything will fit nicely.

i don't know why, but it doesn't show my topics in a sub forum.

Can I ask what you mean by this? I'm not really too sure

Oh, and could you tell me how to make it to three column layout?

That would most likely involve re-writing the HTML code (and maye some of the php code), which is out of my depth sorry.

[geruk]

thx . i'll do it my self . about the topics' problem, just forget it .

[geruk]

Hmm.. how do I give the description a higher width?
http://johandev.dotbas.net/index.php

I think I have to ask the question again.
Finally I made it to three column layout with ease, but this problem is still there.



How to change things in the CSS?

[dragz]

Well, Thanks for this. I tried this on my forum but this was my result. [same problem as above]


How can I make it better? I really need this.
I guess its something with the CSS
regards

[kenny]

To be honest I'm not really sure there is much that I can do with this. I have founf that it works greate if you have a style that doesn't use a background image for each cell, but instead uses just a colour - I think that why it worked so well on my other site, as it used eMuzza. I will speak to some of the styles folk I know and see if anything can be worked out
There is always this option that I posted earlier

A very hacky way to solve this, is to make sure that your forum descriptions are all the same or a similar lenghth. Eg. They all fit into 1 line, that way everything will fit nicely.