automatic theme recognition, in forum block

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

The block is sort of working.

It does change between themes now, but I can't get the new post images to show up, and I can't seem to get the rows to be recognised, so its showing up with one solid background color.

The other problem is that the block appears to be the entire page. Its very easily noticible when you change to a different template.

Anyone know what I'm looking for to fix that?.

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

I'll look into it again tomorrow, I play on the weekends and code on the weekdays right now Wink

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Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

Thanks

I'll reup the new file later today if I haven't gotten it to function, since it is sorta working would help if you actually have the right script.

I understand the need to play Wink

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

I uploaded the new file.

Can't figure out why that little line is in the top left corner of it.

I was looking through some of the other nuke scripts and noticed that in many cases Globals are defined through out the script. I was thinking that maybe if the table variables that contain the row info were made global, the then the colors for the theme would show through in the correct place in the table.

Problem is I don't know if you can do that without calling a function because everywhere I saw it done, there was a function. I tried using a couple different functions and ended up with getting a parse error past the close line of code. In theory I think it would work.

Any ideas on it?

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

I nearly have this script worked out I think. The images are showing, and it changes with the theme. The only problem I have now is the bars at the top and bottom of the last 5 posts don't show up. Ok well I can make them show up, but then it wrecks the structure of the rest of the block. The info doesn't disappear or anything like that, it goes from being a normal sized center block to one that takes the entire page and wraps itself around the other blocks.

Also I can't can't get the vertical lines that seperate the parts of the table to show up. the horizontal cells are a little wider then I would like, but I think that can be modified afterwards.

I'm pretty sure everything else works.

I've used echo to get the table structure and style to show, and have rearranged it about a dozen times, am having some difficulty with the last bit. If anyone has suggestions I would appreciate them.

You can see it here on my test site I have a copy of the last 5 forum posts block above the one I've been working on as a reference. The alignment of the titles is wrong, but that has something to do with the vertical dividers not showing up.

Thanks for your help

Joined: Jan 31, 2004 Posts: -88

for a block, use the

Code:

$content .="bla bla bla";

command, not echo.

ArtificialIntel

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

I'm going to head back to the drawing board then I think. I changed it from content because the whole thing wouldn't display.

Thanks

Joined: Jan 31, 2004 Posts: -88

I've just finished the modules tweak that I was working on, and anything that I put in the echo tags was appearing above the block heading Confused

when it put it in content it worked fine.

Make sure the content has

Code:

$content .="

at the start of every line

ArtificialIntel

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

Thanks,

I'll give it another go. I noticed that it was all appearing above the block title too. LOL Had NO idea how to fix it either. I was just happy it was showing up with the images and the correct colors.

Thanks for all your help. You guys have been great. Very Happy

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

I've changed things around again. Got it working with content instead of echo, but the title of the block shows on the left instead of in the center. I can't get the top bar or lines between posts to show up.

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Don't you love debugging code?

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

LOL yeah

Speaking of debugging. Can you turn debugging on in a block? Confused

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

To an extent yes. I think the block of code you can add anywhere is listed in the announcement forum thread.

Major Joined: Jan 15, 2003 Posts: 1269 Location: USA

Thanks very much Smile

EDIT: I turned debugging on, now I'm extremely confused. This the error that I got back

Code:

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /home/iacoj/www/test/PHP-Nuke/html/blocks/block-Who_is_Online.php on line 35

On my test site I'm using the standard who's online block that comes with phpbb port.

I looked at the script for the who's online block this is line 35 and 36.

Code:

$who_online_num = $guest_online_num + $member_online_num;
$who_online = "<center><font class=\"content\">"._CURRENTLY." $guest_online_num "._GUESTS." $member_online_num "._MEMBERS."<br>";

Is this a cookie issue? I had a cookie code in the forum block before and got back a ton of errors for it. Maybe I'm just writing it wrong, I've tried it a few different ways.