Why won't announcements sink? And how can I insert a logo AND a text?

kramer65

Hi Guys,

I am falling more and more in love with Vanilla Forums. I am almost where I want to be, but there are two things that I still wonder about.

==1==
I made one topic into an Announcement, which sticks it to the top. I then selected "Sink" for that topic, which according to this comment, should move the topic down when new topics are created. So I created a few new topics, but the announcement stays on top of the list.

Do I misunderstand 'Sink', or am I doing something wrong here?

And also, is there a way to make another kind of Announcement, called "NEWS", which behaves the same as the announcement?

==2==
On the backend I can upload a logo, which is then displayed instead of the title which I inserted. I want however, that both the logo and the title is displayed. So I found this page, on which it says that I can simply insert '{logo}'. So I copied '/applications/dashboard/views/default.master.php' to '/themes/myowntheme/views/default.master.php'. In there I found the following line:

<h1><a class="Title" href="<?php echo Url('/'); ?>"><span><?php echo Gdn_Theme::Logo(); ?></span></a></h1>

So I inserted '{logo}' in there, but on the front page I simply see the text "{logo}" displayed. So I guess the code 'Gdn_Theme::Logo()' displays either the title or the logo.

Does anybody know how I can display both the logo and the title in the header?

(btw. sorry for so many questions on this forum in only two days, but I need to septup a new forum asap, and I would really like to use Vanilla instead of phpBB.. )

Sheila

kramer65 said:

I made one topic into an Announcement, which sticks it to the top. I then selected "Sink" for that topic, which according to this comment, should move the topic down when new topics are created. So I created a few new topics, but the announcement stays on top of the list.

Announcement makes the topic to stay/stick on top. Sink makes a topic to sink by time. Atm you are trying to do both to the same topic at the same time..

And you might wanna check the documentation also, thou it is not very wide, I've found several answers from there.

422

You cannot use .tpl codetags in php code

whu606

@kramer65

Why not make your text and logo a single graphic, which you could then upload as normal?

UnderDog

kramer65 said:
So I found this page, on which it says that I can simply insert '{logo}'. So I copied '/applications/dashboard/views/default.master.php' to '/themes/myowntheme/views/default.master.php'. In there I found the following line:

<h1><a class="Title" href="<?php echo Url('/'); ?>"><span><?php echo Gdn_Theme::Logo(); ?></span></a></h1>

I'll help a little more tomorrow, but the simple answer for the moment is the following:

You have 2 types of themes. Themes with a default.master file that end in .php and that end in .tpl. The themes that end in .php (sorry for the short 'formulering') will have actual php code in them:

<h1><a class="Title" href="<?php echo Url('/'); ?>"><span><?php echo Gdn_Theme::Logo(); ?></span></a></h1>

The themes that end in .tpl will have actual 'template-tags' in them.

Just make a decision which type of theme you want to make (.tpl files and therefore 'template-tags' will have the preference) and then adjust your theme to your liking.