Solar Flare II Fix

[rsuplido]

Hi. I'm new here and like some of you, I'm having the same problems with Solar Flare II template when used with SMF. Basically, after installing the bridge, the center article block and the right nav will appear at the bottom of the left nav. I thought I'd post the solution for this since after getting this error I searched and searched and wasn't able to find a fix.

Since SMF is overriding the login block, after much tests I traced the problem to  modules/mod_smf_login.php:

Find:

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Username:<br /><input type="text" name="user" size="10" /><br />
Password:<br /><input type="password" name="passwrd" size="10" />


Change to:

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Username:<br /><input type="text" name="user" size="8" /><br />
Password:<br /><input type="password" name="passwrd" size="8" />


I hope this helps.

[trenchteam]

so does this allow the forum to be wrapped in the template now in IE?  It always worked in FF but I could never get a fix for IE. thanks for your reply

[chadness]

You'll still run in to situation here and there where the forum (or other components - I know akoLegal had issues) will drop down.  You can solve that by changing some "width" settings, if you don't mind not accomadting 800x600 people as well.

[trenchteam]

Can you eleborate more on this.  I added the code, but the forums are still going down below to the left.

[rsuplido]

Please give a link or screenshot of your site to give us an idea.

[trenchteam]

Internet Explorer



Firefox (LOOKS GREAT!)

[chadness]

Try this (untested, may or may not work). 
Open up index.php of the Solarflare II template. 
Change the width setting on line 48 to "908". 
The ads might look funny, so you may want to change the width setting on line 99 to "568".  (You'll need to make your advertisement pictures bigger to fill that in).

[trenchteam]

Going to give it a go!  Damn, this is pretty frustrating. Thanks though.

[trenchteam]

Did not work for me.

[chadness]

If you can zip up a copy of your theme and post it some where, I'll check it out if I get a chance.

[chadness]

OK, in the solar flare templates, most of the widths are set in the CSS file.  I remember what I did now.  I widened the content area by 100 pixels (yes, this makes it so it's not 800x600 friendly).  This involved widening the main page by 100, the content area by 100, the advertsement by 100, and the last posted and popular boxes by 50 each.  If you search through the CSS file for every Width tag, you can change them one by one until you have it the way you like.  You'll also want to change your header graphic and ads to fill up that extra space.

Trench, let me know if the file I edited for you works!

[trenchteam]

Gonna give this a go on the weekend. Thanks. I'll be sure to let you know

[Kindred]

FYI... on mamboforge, they have breleased a variable width version of solarflare II

[chadness]

This one?  http://mamboforge.net/projects/solarflare2-dw/
That should help a lot of people...