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I just thought of this today as a nice little thing that could be added to the templates by default. It would make 1 less place(and a tricky place at that with the way some people setup styles) that needs to be modified by mods that add buttons up there.

Why not add an extra thing like the profile_fields loop in before this code?

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<a href="{U_FAQ}"><img src="{T_THEME_PATH}/images/icon_mini_faq.gif" width="12" height="13" alt="*" /> {L_FAQ}</a>
You could add a template loop there and then mod writers would simply have to put the link, img src, width, height, and alt in an array and have the template engine parse it. Then they would not need to edit the tricky header and worry about when people start using a bunch of other styles.

It could be something like:

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<!-- BEGIN header_links -->
<a href="{header_links.URL}"><img src="{header_links.IMG_SRC}" width="{header_links.WIDTH}" height="{header_links.HEIGHT}" alt="{header_links.ALT}" /> {header_links.TEXT}</a>
<!-- END header_links -->
Wouldn't be too hard to add, and would probably save some headaches and work later on. :)

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I don't like that idea at all...

It’s much easier and better to control the individual links, their placement, and the control statements of when they will appear if they are isolated elements rather than if they are restricted in a loop.
Plus there are so few link anyways, it’s not that big of a deal to just move or manipulate them how you want them. :)
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Highway of Life wrote: It’s much easier and better to control the individual links, their placement, and the control statements of when they will appear if they are isolated elements rather than if they are restricted in a loop.
Plus there are so few link anyways, it’s not that big of a deal to just move or manipulate them how you want them. :)


But the whole point is to make it easier for MOD authors and newbies to phpBB MODing and HTML.

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well… I could see something like making a links.html and putting the links section in there… then including it in the overall_header.html… but why? there's not much in the overall_header to begin with.
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Handyman wrote: well… I could see something like making a links.html and putting the links section in there… then including it in the overall_header.html… but why? there's not much in the overall_header to begin with.


But that wouldn't really help...

I am not trying to make it shorter in the overall_header.html area, I am just trying to make it so that it will be much easier for mod authors to add a link in the header, so they will not have to edit the template manually at all. If you ever had a semi-popular mod you know how bad it can be when other templates are starting to be used. Some people just don't install anything on the other templates, some completely put it in the wrong places, and with some styles the header won't be anything at all like subSilver, so you will pretty much have to do the edit for them...

Trying to get other templates to work is not always a fun experience. There may be a few other places that could have a loop like I mentioned to make it easy for mod authors as well(off the top of my head, on view topic, or memberlist view).

Mod authors do not have to use the loops either if they want it in a specific place, the ones who want to control exactly where it is will just have to deal with the problems it may bring with other styles. ;)

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Anyone else? 8O

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I think this needs another bump...

I want to hear what the devs think of it...

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Do not forget for prosilver its now all CSS based

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<a href="{U_FAQ}" title="{L_FAQ_EXPLAIN}" class="icon-faq">{L_FAQ}</a>&nbsp;
So really when a MOD author needs to do it now they need the CSS editted. I would prefer a method for MOD authors to have their css file included without having to edit and include another @import manually in stylesheet.css

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Ya, I haven't gotten into the whole XHTML, tableless design, or CSS based stuff like that yet...


But wouldn't you still need to add a line like the following to the template:
<a href="{U_BLOG}" title="{L_BLOG_EXPLAIN}" class="icon-blog">{L_BLOG}</a>&nbsp;

And like you said, it would be extremely helpful if the templates automatically included CSS files in a certain folder. And it would be great if the parse_header() function automatically included files in a certain folder to be parsed. Then you could add all kinds of things without having to edit much, if anything at all. :D

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You never have to edit much… currently you just edit the overall header to make it look however you want.
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