Custom Forum Headers

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I was wondering if there was a way to have a custom Masthead for each forum. I understand that I can include an image in the initial entries of each topic but that doesn't fit my purposes as I'm hacking the default JForum theme within an inch of its life (I'll post the URL when I'm done). I was thinking something more along the lines of:

If forum ="forum name" then display "forum div" or else display nothing.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Eric


[originally posted on jforum.net by slowhome]

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I think Freemarker lets you wrap includes inside if statements. Also on the forum and view topic pages, there is generally a "forum" object in the FreeMarker context. You can probably combine these two in the correct template files to do something like:

<#if forum.id == {id number of form} >
  <#include "forumXHeader.htm" />
<#elseif forum.id == {id number of form} >
  <#include "forumXHeader.htm" />
<#else>
  <#include "defaultHeader.htm" />
</#if>

Where id is the id number of the forum (database key).
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]

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Didn't work. Here's what I put in forum_show.htm

<#if forum.id == {1} >
<#include "includes/customMasthead.htm" />
<#elseif forum.id == {1} >
<#include "includes/customMasthead.htm" />
<#else>
<#include "includes/defaultMasthead.htm" />
</#if>


This is what the console barfed out:


freemarker.core.ParseException: Encountered "}" at line 57, column 20.
Was expecting one of:
"," ...
":" ...
"." ...
"[" ...
"(" ...
"?" ...
"!" ...
"??" ...
"+" ...
"-" ...
"*" ...
"/" ...
"%" ...
"!=" ...
"=" ...
"==" ...
"=" ...
ESCAPED_GTE ...
"" ...
ESCAPED_GT ...
LESS_THAN_EQUALS ...
LESS_THAN ...
".." ...
AND ...
OR ...


I've verified that the forum.id is correct. The includes work if not wrapped in the statement.

Thanks for any help.

Eric
[originally posted on jforum.net by slowhome]

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Sorry, the {} part was just my way to indicate a replacement item. Just put the number there and no curly braces.
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]

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Works perfectly! Thanks for your help.
[originally posted on jforum.net by slowhome]

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FWIW, Looking at your sample.. you don't need the second

<#elseif forum.id == {1} >
<#include "includes/customMasthead.htm" />

part unless you are doing more than one custom mastHead. E.g., Forum id 2 has a different one from 1.

I was just trying to indicate that you can string together a bunch of different forum id's and mastheads with the elseif statements if you need to.
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]