Invision Board Customizing

[Wilexa]

In these Family Forums there are a couple of links near the top left, just below the banner. They are "Web Hosting Home" and "Forum Guidelines". My board doesn't have any thing like that (just a straight install), but I would love to be able to put similar ones on my board.

 

Am I blind? I searched the IPB docs and can't find any mention of them. Are they a plug-in, a straight PHP edit, or something else?

 

Can anyone enlighten me?

 

..Dave

[TCH-Dick]

What version are the forums you have? v1.2 has the links via the admin cpanel under board settings.

[Wilexa]

That's the problem. I have 1.1.2

 

Time to upgrade.

 

Thanks for the fast reply! Rock Sign

 

...Dave

[TCH-Don]

Dave for 1.1.2

you can to add to the upper right forum menu after 'help'

or on that line:

 

 

first change permissions for

/Skin/s1/skin_global.php

CHMOD to 0777 via FTP. IBF cannot do this for you.

 

then to edit skin/s1/skin_global.php

 

log into your admin CP

goto skins and templates

manage html templates

manage html

global html elements

select Board Header (logo, links, etc) > edit

 

 

find the area

function end_nav

look below for the line

<span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span>

copy and paste it below itself after a blank line

then edit in the blank line between them

to add a menu item

then update in your admin CP

at the bottom of the window

 

 

 

<!-- partial code -->

 

function end_nav() {

global $ibforums;

return <<<EOF

</td>

<td align='right' valign='middle' nowrap>

<table cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0' border='0' style='border:1px solid <{tbl_border}>' class='row2'>

<tr>

<td nowrap><a href='{$ibforums->base_url}&act=Help'>{$ibforums->lang['tb_help']}</a>

 

 

<!-- copy this line and paste below -->

<span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span>

<!-- add menu item here -->

<a href='http://example.com/chatroom/'>Chat</a>

 

<!-- paste the line with | here -->

<span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span>

 

 

 

 

<span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span> <a href='{$ibforums->base_url}&act=Search&f={$ibforums->input['f']}'>{$ibforums->lang['tb_search']}</a>

<span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span> <a href='{$ibforums->base_url}&act=Members'>{$ibforums->lang['tb_mlist']}</a>

<span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span> <a href='{$ibforums->base_url}&act=calendar'>{$ibforums->lang['tb_calendar']}</a>

<!--IBF.CHATLINK-->

</td>

</tr>

</table>

 

 

anyway this should give you the idea.

[Wilexa]

Turtle...

 

Wow, are you ever a fountain of knowledge! Thumbs Up

 

Unfortunately for me, I had just come back to the forums here to report success in upgrading to 1.2 when I saw your post.

 

However, your efforts were not in vain. I learned a lot about the way the forums are coded by reading your post. Thank you very much.

 

I think this would make a great how-to for customizing an IPB in the "Family Members How To's" forum. I am sure many TCH'ers are running the Invision board and would appreciate it. Especially after reading that 1.1.x skins won't work in 1.2, a lot of folks will probably stick with 1.1.2 for a while.

 

Thanks again,

Dave

 

Rock Sign

[TCH-Don]

Your are welcome Dave,

your forum is looking good Thumbs Up

[talkingplant]

I'm probably missing something here, but when I follow these directions the global html elements part just isn't there. Any ideas as to what I'm doin wrong here???

Thanks

 

Ich, never mind, had to resynch first. Well, I guess it's best to answer your own questions when you can.

[TCH-Don]

There are more hints about customizing your IPB board in

Tutorials and Frequently Asked Questions>Third Party Script Tutorials