fiblack3d with bNC 6.5 bundle

Private Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 42

WOW! First off these theme is IMPRESSIVE! I love it, kudos to the hard work and time for those that created this excellent theme.

I installed this theme and it works well with bNC bundle 6.5. It hasn't crashed or anything.

I have a question though - the forum is screwed up in that it doesn't spread 100% across to the right, so that it looks like there could be blocks there, but there aren't, it's just empty spae all down the right side. This is the same when i go into Members List.

I'll pay if i have to in order to get this theme to work 100% with the bNC bundle 6.5 <b>and I'm serious</b>. I don't mind paying for hard work. I am suprised these wonderful programs and modules are free in the first place. But i'll throw about $30 (USD) your way if you can help me out.

I just don't have enough waking hours to fiddle with it myself as I work full time and i have other things going on in my life. ugh.

thanks i really am being 100% honest and forward.

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:38 pm

I'll look into it for you and let you know.

It may be something pretty simple like changing a numeric width in one file.

-sting

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:41 pm

This isn't theme related I don't think - I just installed it fine on another site and it spreads all the way across. PM your site and admin login info (your call) so I can take a look at it.

-sting

Private Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 42

done...

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 6:36 pm

sting wrote:

This isn't theme related I don't think - I just installed it fine on another site and it spreads all the way across.

HA!

Shows what that guy knows...

Here's what I did - maybe someone else can give me a pointer or two on this.

There seemed to be a ton of proliferous table defining that was causing the formatting issue. So I worked around that and did the following:

Proliferous info:

Quote:

echo "</td></tr></table>\n"
."</td>\n"
."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"
."</tr>\n"
."<tr>\n"
."<td class=\"tblleft\"> </td>\n"
."<td><div align=\"center\"><font class=\"small\">\n";
footmsg();
echo "</CENTER></font></div></td>\n"
."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"
."</tr>\n"
."<tr>\n"
."<td class=\"tblleft\"> </td>\n"
."<td><div align=\"center\"><font class=\"small\">:: fiblack3d phpbb2 style by <a href=\"http://www.forumimages.com/\">Daz</a> :: PHP-Nuke theme by <a href=\"http://www.nukemods.com\">www.nukemods.com</a> ::</font></div></td>\n"
."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"
."</tr>\n"
."<tr>\n"
."<td class=\"tblleft\"> </td>\n"
."<td> </td>\n"
."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"
."</tr>\n"
."<tr>\n"
."<td><img src=\"themes/fiblack3d/forums/images/tnav_bl.gif\" width=\"14\" height=\"26\" alt=\"\" /></td>\n"
."<td class=\"tblbot\"> </td>\n"
."<td><img src=\"themes/fiblack3d/forums/images/tnav_br.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"26\" alt=\"\" /></td>\n"
."</tr>\n"
."</table>\n";

I replaced that with comments as below:

Quote:

echo "</td></tr></table><CENTER>\n";
/* Commented out by sting to get the forums to work correctly */
/*."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."</tr><CENTER><BR>\n"*/
/*."<tr>\n"*/
/*."<td class=\"tblleft\"> </td><BR>\n"*/
/*."<td><div align=\"center\"><font class=\"small\">\n"*/
/*."<BR>\n";*/
footmsg();
echo "</CENTER></font></div></td>\n";
/*."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."</tr>\n"*/
/*."<tr>\n"*/
/*."<td class=\"tblleft\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."<td><div align=\"center\"><font class=\"small\">:: fiblack3d phpbb2 style by <a href=\"http://www.forumimages.com/\">Daz</a> :: PHP-Nuke theme by <a href=\"http://www.nukemods.com\">www.nukemods.com</a> ::</font></div></td>\n"*/
/*."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."</tr>\n"*/
/*."<tr>\n"*/
/*."<td class=\"tblleft\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."<td> </td>\n"*/
/*."<td class=\"tblright\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."</tr>\n"*/
/*."<tr>\n"*/
/*."<td><img src=\"themes/fiblack3d/forums/images/tnav_bl.gif\" width=\"14\" height=\"26\" alt=\"\" /></td>\n"*/
/*."<td class=\"tblbot\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."<td><img src=\"themes/fiblack3d/forums/images/tnav_br.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"26\" alt=\"\" /></td>\n"*/
/*."</tr>\n"*/
/*."</table>\n";*/

and voila, the footer works - centered, etc.

Two catches.

1. The theme image on the left side ends at the footer.
2. The theme's credits do not show up after being commented out. If you leave the code as is, it shows up centered on the right side of the page.

Temp Workaround for number 2 - In order to ensure that the credits remained on the site, I put the theme credits directly in the footer.php file. Of course this means that regardless of the theme, the footer credits will still have fiblack3d credits in there as well.

These catches of course beg the questions:

1. How do I put those images in on the left side without reinserting all of the code that caused the forum alignment issues in the first place?

I have a feeling it has something to do with

Quote:

/*."<td><img src=\"themes/fiblack3d/forums/images/tnav_bl.gif\" width=\"14\" height=\"26\" alt=\"\" /></td>\n"*/
/*."<td class=\"tblbot\"> </td>\n"*/
/*."<td><img src=\"themes/fiblack3d/forums/images/tnav_br.gif\" width=\"15\" height=\"26\" alt=\"\" /></td>\n"*/
/*."</tr>\n"*/
/*."</table>\n";*/

but would like some reassurance and direction there...

and

2. Where do I put footer info that is theme footer specific in the theme.php file where it will show up AFTER the footer.php information and not cause an issue?

Thanks in advance for any help..

-sting

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 11:46 am

Quote:

Where do I put footer info that is theme footer specific in the theme.php file where it will show up AFTER the footer.php information and not cause an issue?

try instead calling the footer.html from the themefooter function
like this

Code:

$tmpl_file = "themes/fiblack3d/footer.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;

place after your above modified code.

the proliferous code you were referring to was to enlcose the whole theme in the outer table. It was by design.
fiBlack3dBlue will probably be the same.

I'll bet though that there is some code change in the page_tail.php for the buyndle that could probably be altered so that this problem wouldn't even exist. I'll have to look at that file.

Code:

$template->pparse('overall_footer');

Yup, it calls the overall_footer file for the template. Pretty sure that is somehwat the cause.
This was commented out in versions other than the NC bundle. It was done in order to return the template's credit line. Which was really not necessary. The info could have been moved to the Nuke footer. Wink

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:13 pm

OK found some more interesting stuff.

If you comment out this line in the page_tail.php for the NC bundle when using this theme

Code:

$template->pparse('overall_footer');

the page fits all the way to the right, thus eliminating problem one.

BTW, make sure you setup your serverload.php file to connect to the database. Same way you setup your config.php

So I think the fact that NC bundle now includes the calling over the overall footer from the page_tail file, We are going to start having some broken footers. Same problem I have gone through with other version changes.