Flash header
We just launched our forums using Vanilla, and they are great, but I would like the forums to match the rest of our site and use the Flash navigation the rest of the site uses. How can I add it and also control the width of the forum.
Here are examples of the site and forum
Forum
http://mygreenworld.org/forums/
Our Site with the flash header
http://greenchefs.tv/
Also our wiki with the flash header
http://gknowledge.org/
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I caught your post about this on the blog, and I figured I'd show you that even with vanilla 0.9.2.x it can be very easy to accomplish this.
Here is a quick extension I wrote that inserts an html file at the top of the page:
<?php /* Extension Name: Banner Insertion Extension Url: N/A Description: Inserts a banner at the top of the page Version: 1.0 Author: Mark O'Sullivan Author Url: http://markosullivan.ca/ Copyright 2003 - 2005 Mark O'Sullivan This file is part of Vanilla. Vanilla is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Vanilla is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Vanilla; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA The latest source code for Vanilla is available at www.lussumo.com Contact Mark O'Sullivan at mark [at] lussumo [dot] com */ if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("index.php","comments.php", "account.php", "settings.php", "search.php", "post.php"))) { class BannerInsertion extends Control { function BannerInsertion(&$Context) { $this->Control($Context); } function Render() { include("./extensions/BannerInsertion/your_banner.html"); } } $BannerInsertion = new BannerInsertion($Context); $Head->AddStyleSheet("./extensions/BannerInsertion/style.css"); $Page->AddControl("Menu_Render", $BannerInsertion); } ?>Obviously, you'd need to place this code in a file within your extensions folder called "BannerInsertion.php". Then you'd need to create a folder called "BannerInsertion" and within that folder create a "your_banner.html" file with your custom banner in there.
You will also probably need to customize the CSS a bit to suit your needs, so I threw in another line there for a custom css file in your "BannerInsertion" folder called "style.css".
Good Luck!
But you seriously shouldn't be applying a test extension on a live server. You should test it on a local machine first. Don't you have a local copy of your site on your home machine?
Anyway, re-copy that code and it should work - but you'll still have some css issues to deal with - which is why I still say you should test it out somewhere else first.
It should work now. Sorry again.
, "signin.php", "leave.php"to the
if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("index.php","comments.php", "account.php", "settings.php", "search.php", "post.php"))) {So that whole line would become
if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("index.php","comments.php", "account.php", "settings.php", "search.php", "post.php", "signin.php", "leave.php"))) {^^the above is prolly wrong.