[HOW TO] Status Forum Marker Placement

First I want to give credit to miner for teaching me part of this. I've tweaked and added a bit to what he taught me.

This tutorial is used to change the status forum icons from vertical to Horizontal display on Forumhome and Forumdisplay.


Open Forumhome template.

Find this:



<!-- icons and login code -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<if condition="!$show['guest']">
<!-- member logout -->
<td align="$stylevar[right]"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()"><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[log_out_x]</phrase></a></td>
<!-- end member logout -->
</if>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / icons and login code -->


[I]Replace with:

<!-- icons and login code -->
<br />
<table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border: 1px solid #55473B; background-color: #F1EBE7;">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle" class="smallfont" >
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" align="middle" border="0" /> New posts &nbsp; &nbsp;
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" align="middle" border="0" /> No new posts &nbsp;&nbsp;
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" align="middle" border="0" /> A locked forum &nbsp;&nbsp;
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_link.gif" alt="links" align="middle" border="0" /> Links
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / icons and login code -->


You can change the background and border colors to match your style's colors, or delete if not needed.
Notice that I added the forum link image and deleted the login code. It's not really necessary to have the login/logout code there, IMO, since it is already located on the navbar.
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Open Forumdisplay

Find this:


<else />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>



[I]Replace with:

<else />
<br />
<table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border: 1px solid #E0AAD9; background-color: #ffffff;">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle" class="smallfont" >
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" align="middle" border="0" /> New posts &nbsp; &nbsp;
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" align="middle" border="0" /> No new posts &nbsp;&nbsp;
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" align="middle" border="0" /> A locked forum &nbsp;&nbsp;
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_link.gif" alt="links" align="middle" border="0" /> Links
</td>
</tr>
</table>


Just below that, find:
<!-- / icon key -->

Below, add:
<br />
<br />

This prevents the icons from sitting on top of the forum jump menu on forumdisplay.


Enjoy

(hahaha, my first vB tutorial... whoda thunk it!)