[Tutorial] Forums in Columns

[Simple]

This is the same basic idea from the "Subforums in colums" tutorial (http://community.mybb.com/thread-32008.html).

Preview at the bottom.

Editing Templates​

Open your theme global.css style sheet and put this at the end:

table.forumh {
    width:100%;
    margin: 0px auto auto;
    clear:both;
}
table.forumh h3 hr{
    width:98%;
    filter:alpha(opacity=60);
    opacity:0.6;
}
table.forumh h3.forumdisplay{
    text-align:center;
}
table.forumh h3  img {
    margin-right:3px;
    vertical-align:text-bottom;
    max-width:30px;
    max-height:25px;
    filter:alpha(opacity=60);
    opacity:0.6;
}
table.forumh h3 span {
    font-weight:normal;
}

table.forumh ul {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}
table.forumh ul li {
    list-style: none;
    width: 50%;
    margin-bottom:10px;
    float: left;
}
table.forumh ul li table {
    width: 98%;
    min-height: 110px;
    margin: auto auto;
    background: #feffe8;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #feffe8 0%, #d6dbbf 100%);
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#feffe8), color-stop(100%,#d6dbbf));
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #feffe8 0%,#d6dbbf 100%);
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #feffe8 0%,#d6dbbf 100%);
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #feffe8 0%,#d6dbbf 100%);
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#feffe8', endColorstr='#d6dbbf',GradientType=0 );
    background: linear-gradient(top, #feffe8 0%,#d6dbbf 100%);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
    -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
    -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
    -moz-border-radius: 5px;
    border-radius: 5px;
}
table.forumh ul li table td img {
    max-width:150px;
    max-height:110px;
}
table.forumh ul li table div {
    font-size:80%;
}
table.forumh ul li table div.last {
    font-size:80%;
}

Open your theme forumbit_depth1_cat template and replace everything with this:

<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="forumh">
<thead><tr><td>
<h3><img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$expcolimage}" id="cat_{$forum['fid']}_img" class="expander" alt="{$expaltext}" title="{$expaltext}" /><a href="{$forum_url}">{$forum['name']}</a> - <span class="smalltext">{$forum['description']}</span><hr/></h3>
</td></tr></thead>
<tbody style="{$expdisplay}" id="cat_{$forum['fid']}_e"><tr><td>
<ul>{$sub_forums}</ul>
</td></tr></tbody>
</table>
<br />

Open your theme forumbit_depth2_forum template and replace everything with this:

<li><table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle" width="1px" rowspan="2"><img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/{$lightbulb['folder']}.gif" alt="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" title="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" class="ajax_mark_read" id="mark_read_{$forum['fid']}"/></td>
<td valign="top">
<strong><a href="{$forum_url}">{$forum['name']}</a></strong>{$forum_viewers_text}
<div>{$forum['description']}{$modlist}{$subforums}</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
{$lastpost}
</td>
</tr>
</table></li>

Open your theme forumbit_depth2_forum_lastpost template and replace everything with this:

<div class="last">Last post {$lang->by} {$lastpost_profilelink}, {$lastpost_date} {$lastpost_time}<br />
<a href="{$lastpost_link}" title="{$full_lastpost_subject}"><strong>{$lastpost_subject}</strong></a></div>

Open your theme forumdisplay_subforums template and replace everything with this:

<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="forumh">
<thead><tr><td>
<h3 class="forumdisplay">{$lang->sub_forums_in}<hr/></h3>
</td></tr></thead>
<tbody style="{$expdisplay}" id="cat_{$forum['fid']}_e"><tr><td>
<ul>{$forums}</ul>
</td></tr></tbody>
</table>
<br />

Preview​

Notes​

You will need to change the images from the code as I used hotlinked images.

For the collapse icons, I use these two:
http://www.iconfinder.com/ajax/download/png/?id=12606&s=48
http://www.iconfinder.com/ajax/download/png/?id=12605&s=48

For the on/off/offlock icons I use (150w)x(110h) images.

Anything else just edit the css code.

That is it.

Pd: Why can't I upload attachments here?

 

[Kyles]

This is amzing; The TTG wannabe forums will be using this, lol.

 

[Simple]

Yeah, I was thinking that too.

 

[Kyles]

Well, I will maybe use this later on, But for now I'm "pulling a TTG"; Putting together phpBB, Nuke, And custom.

 

[Simple]

Well, you could still try it lol.