Deleting columns "Topics" and "messages"

by **Shadow** on November 23rd 2010, 11:36 am

First and foremost, you must:
- Be the founder of the forum,
- Be on phpBB2,
- Have a basic knowledge of HTML, and templates.

Tutorial effects
Instead of having a traditional appearance of the forum:
Deleting columns "Topics" and "messages" Tuto110

Topics and messages will appear as follows:
Deleting columns "Topics" and "messages" Tuto_210

Changing templates

Administration Panel Deleting columns "Topics" and "messages" 16-arr10

Display

Templates

General
Edit template index_box

1. Locate:

Code:: <th nowrap="nowrap" width="50">{L_TOPICS}</th> <th nowrap="nowrap" width="50">{L_POSTS}</th>

Delete it.

2. Locate:

Code:: <td class="row3" align="center" valign="middle" height="50"> <span class="gensmall">{catrow.forumrow.TOPICS}</span> </td> <td class="row2" align="center" valign="middle" height="50"> <span class="gensmall">{catrow.forumrow.POSTS}</span> </td>

Delete it.

3. Locate:

Code:: <h{catrow.forumrow.LEVEL} class="hierarchy"> <span class="forumlink"> <a class="forumlink" href="{catrow.forumrow.U_VIEWFORUM}">{catrow.forumrow.FORUM_NAME}</a> </span> </h{catrow.forumrow.LEVEL}>

Replace with:

Code:: <table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><h{catrow.forumrow.LEVEL} class="hierarchy"> <span class="forumlink"> <a class="forumlink" href="{catrow.forumrow.U_VIEWFORUM}">{catrow.forumrow.FORUM_NAME}</a> </span> </h{catrow.forumrow.LEVEL}></td><td style="padding-left: 40px; text-align: right;" class="gensmall">{catrow.forumrow.POSTS} messages in {catrow.forumrow.TOPICS} topics.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Check by clicking Pending Deleting columns "Topics" and "messages" New_window

And if you're satisfied, publish.