A client’s vBulletin board uses vbadvaced news module to display posts from a hidden forum. Every post is wrapped with adv_portal_module_wrapper.
My client did not want the topic links to be displayed, so he asked me to hack the code to achieve this.
Change adv_portal_module_wrapper
The adv_portal_module_wrapper you will find in you ACP —> style manager —> in the drop down for which ever style your working on pick edit templates —> vbadvanced cmps templates —> adv_portal_module_wrapper (should be located halfway down in the list of templates)
However you might want to copy that template and make a new one in case you need the default, you can add one by ACP —> style manager —> the add template. copy and paste your adv_portal_module_wrapper contents in for a starting point.
The following is the original code of adv_portal_module_wrapper:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | $mods[formcode]
<div style="padding-bottom:$vba_style[portal_vspace]px">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="$mods[colspan]">
<if condition="$vba_style['portal_collapsemods']">
<a href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('module_$mods[collapse]')" style="float:$stylevar[right]"><img alt="" border="0" id="collapseimg_module_$mods[collapse]" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$modimgcollapse.gif" /></a>
</if>
<span class="smallfont"><strong>$vba_style[portal_blockbullet] <if condition="$mods['link']"><a href="$mods[link]">$mods[title]</a><else />$mods[title]</if></strong></span></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="collapseobj_module_$mods[collapse]" style="$modcollapse">
<if condition="$show['tablerow']">
<tr>
<td class="$bgclass">
$modulehtml
</td>
</tr>
<else />
$modulehtml
</if>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<if condition="$show['endform']"></form></if> |
I noticed the links where being created with the $mods[title] (refer to line 11). So where is this variable defined? Thanks to grep linux command I found out where it was assigned a value:
/includes/vba_cmps_include_top.php
/modules/news.php
In /modules/news.php there is this line, which gave me the clue on how to solve this issue
$mods['title'] = ($news['prefix'] ? $news['prefix'] : '') . ' <a href="' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/showthread.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 't=' . $news['threadid'] . '">' . $news['title'] . '</a>'; |
So I thought I’d change the $mods['title'] call in adv_portal_module_wrapper to $news['title'], so my resulting copy of adv_portal_module_wrapper is called adv_portal_module_wrapper_miguel and is like follows (the only thing changed is line 11):
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | $mods[formcode]
<!-- adv_portal_module_wrapper_miguel -->
<div style="padding-bottom:$vba_style[portal_vspace]px">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="$mods[colspan]">
<if condition="$vba_style['portal_collapsemods']">
<a href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('module_$mods[collapse]')" style="float:$stylevar[right]"><img alt="" border="0" id="collapseimg_module_$mods[collapse]" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$modimgcollapse.gif" /></a>
</if>
<span class="smallfont"><strong>$vba_style[portal_blockbullet] $news[title]</strong></span></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="collapseobj_module_$mods[collapse]" style="$modcollapse">
<if condition="$show['tablerow']">
<tr>
<td class="$bgclass">
$modulehtml
</td>
</tr>
<else />
$modulehtml
</if>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<if condition="$show['endform']"></form></if> |