Customizing specific forums

Rudeman72 · Post by **Rudeman72** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:33 am

Just wondering if it was possible to customize a specific forum in phpbb3 or how to do it.

Example: A different header for each forum. Or adding a countdown stuff like that.

Like if one has a sports related message board that has a forum for each sport it would be nice to have a header that reflects that sport instead of having just one that is message board wide, or if one wanted a countdown to a specific event in a sport (World cup, Superbowl, World Series etc.)

So basically just want to know what I need to be editing (which files and where) and basically what to do to make it just for a specific forum.

Thanks in advance.

AmigoJack · Post by **AmigoJack** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:21 am

Rudeman72 wrote:A different header for each forum

It is possible. Implying that you know HTML by yourself, for every style your board uses open /styles/?/template/overall_header.html and then modify the place(s) of your choice to something like this:

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<!-- IF FORUM_ID == 32 -->
  <b>this is forum 32 bold</b>
<!-- ELSIF FORUM_ID == 9 -->
  <i>forum 9 is italic</i>
<!-- ELSE -->
  this is for everything else / the default view
<!-- ENDIF -->

The ordinals of each forum must be set by you, of course. The different views apply to viewing a forum and viewing a topic.

Oyabun1 · Post by **Oyabun1** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:45 am

There is a MOD, Custom Header Logo, that allows setting different logos (header images) for each forum.

AmigoJack's code will be useful for adding things like a countdown to be shown only in a specific forum.

Rudeman72 · Post by **Rudeman72** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:42 pm

Thanks, I'll test them both when I have the time. I appreciate the help.