Adding text to header

glidergirl · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 10:40 pm

I'd like to add a welcome message/link to rules in the header of our forums. I'm assuming I could do this by adding HTML to a file -- but I don't know which one.

A. Is there a chance this could affect functionalitiy?
B. What file?

Thanks for your help!

corky · Regular Joined: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 63

Try Header.php

Raven · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:35 pm

GG,

The header.php file is for the nuke site and appears on every page so that is not what you would use. Also, you should never change the header.php file. You would actually change the includes/my_header.php Wink

There would be several ways actually/unfortunately. I will give you but one as an example. This is using the standard subSilver template.

You can modify the modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/overall_header.tpl file. Now this particular example will show on every forum page. Towards the bottom of this file you will see code similar to this

Code:

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
   <td class="bodyline"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
      <tr>
         <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
            <tr>
               <td align="center" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span class="mainmenu"><center> <a href="{U_FAQ}" class="mainmenu"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_faq.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_FAQ}" hspace="3" />{L_FAQ}</a>   <a href="{U_SEARCH}" class="mainmenu"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_search.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_SEARCH}" hspace="3" />{L_SEARCH}</a>   <a href="{U_GROUP_CP}" class="mainmenu"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_groups.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_USERGROUPS}" hspace="3" />{L_USERGROUPS}</a> 
                <a href="{U_PROFILE}" class="mainmenu"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_profile.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_PROFILE}" hspace="3" />{L_PROFILE}</a>   <a href="{U_PRIVATEMSGS}" class="mainmenu"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_message.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO}" hspace="3" />{PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO}</a>   <a href="{U_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" class="mainmenu"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_mini_login.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" hspace="3" />{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}</a> </center></span></td>
            </tr>
         </table></td>
      </tr>
   </table>

To add a message right after that, try adding this code

Code:

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
   <td class="bodyline"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
      <tr>
         <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
            <tr>
               <td align="center" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap"><span class="mainmenu"><center>This is a test message</center>
               </td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      </tr>
   </td>
</tr>
</table>

That should give you an idea of the methodology.

glidergirl · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:29 am

Awesome. Thank you so much for all your expertise!