Custom Styles in Classified

HobbyTalk · December 20th, 2004, 09:30 PM

My Classifieds is using vB integration. Is it possible to use custom headers and footers instead of the vB default style in some catagories? If so, how?

Chuck S · December 21st, 2004, 05:45 AM

Not without further defining the VB header replacement system. The switch as far as our product is concerned is if your using the vb header your using the vb header.

HobbyTalk · December 21st, 2004, 09:01 AM

Thanks for the answer even if it's not what I wanted to hear

Michael P · December 21st, 2004, 09:21 AM

I've been trying to think of a way for us to offer this kind of functionality, so maybe we'll be able to cook up something in a future release.

HobbyTalk · December 21st, 2004, 08:49 PM

Maybe someway to call the style by style ID#? Not sure if that is possible but figured I'd throw out the idea. Thanks for considering it.

Lee Wilde · December 22nd, 2004, 01:33 AM

I have installed this hack and it works perfectly in my forums.

Header/Footer For Each Forum - by ChurchMedia
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65890

Something like this would be EXCELLENT in my classifieds.

Chuck S · December 22nd, 2004, 03:11 AM

Right and this is the quantrum we face

Your talking hacks. Our integrations and such need to be written to VB base code to be compatible for everyone. If a code modification is what it takes to get different headers and footers per forum in VB then until they allow this I doubt we could support such a thing. Rest assured we are looking at this.

HobbyTalk · December 22nd, 2004, 07:46 AM

I think just being able to use standard styles that vB uses would be great. I have 4 different styles that I use, being able to apply those to different pages (or even just catagories) in classifieds would be awesome.

Michael P · December 22nd, 2004, 08:28 AM

I'm curious - if you add a styleid=XX onto the end of a PhotoPost URL, does the vB3 header pick that up and change the style that it shows?

HobbyTalk · December 22nd, 2004, 08:38 AM

I don't have my PhotoPost style integrated with vB so someone else will have to try.

Lee Wilde · December 22nd, 2004, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael P

I'm curious - if you add a styleid=XX onto the end of a PhotoPost URL, does the vB3 header pick that up and change the style that it shows?

It doesn't make any difference on my site.

Lee Wilde · December 22nd, 2004, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by omegatron

Right and this is the quantrum we face

Your talking hacks. Our integrations and such need to be written to VB base code to be compatible for everyone. If a code modification is what it takes to get different headers and footers per forum in VB then until they allow this I doubt we could support such a thing. Rest assured we are looking at this.

Oh Ok, understood.

What if you looked at the methodology used in the vbhack above and applied something similar to the classifieds base code? There wouldn't be any need to change vb base code.

ie. Add "header" and "footer" fields to the pp_categories table and then call the information from showcat.php?

Unfortunately my imagination and technical skills are not equally weighted