How to place child boards under the main board topics

[pat_togo]

Dear All,
I am running a forum based on smf and by default when you open a forum its child boards are displayed on top while the forum own topics come after. How to change this, and have the topics coming on top and the child boards under them?
Thanks.
Patrick

[Owdy]

That code is in messageindex.template.php, you should move code a litlle. Those parent board code looks something like this:

Koodi [Valitse] Laajenna

if (isset($context['boards']) && (!empty($options['show_children']) || $context['start'] == 0))
{
echo '
<div class="tborder" style="padding: 1px; margin-bottom: 2ex;"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5">
<tr class="titlebg">
<td colspan="4">', $txt['parent_boards'], '</td>
</tr>';
foreach ($context['boards'] as $board)
{
echo '
<tr class="windowbg2">
<td class="windowbg" width="6%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=unread;board=', $board['id'], '.0">';

// Is this board itself new?
if ($board['new'])
echo '<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/on.gif" alt="', $txt[333], '" title="', $txt[333], '" border="0" />';
// Is one of this board's children new, then?
elseif ($board['children_new'])
echo '<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/on2.gif" alt="', $txt[333], '" title="', $txt[333], '" border="0" />';
// I guess it's not new at all.
else
echo '<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/off.gif" alt="', $txt[334], '" title="', $txt[334], '" border="0" />';

echo '</a></td>
<td align="left">
<b><a href="', $board['href'], '" name="b', $board['id'], '">', $board['name'], '</a></b><br />
', $board['description'];

if (!empty($board['moderators']))
echo '
<div style="padding-top: 1px;" class="smalltext"><i>', count($board['moderators']) == 1 ? $txt[298] : $txt[299], ': ', implode(', ', $board['link_moderators']), '</i></div>';

if (!empty($board['children']))
{
$children = array();
foreach ($board['children'] as $child)
{
$child['link'] = '<a href="' . $child['href'] . '" title="' . ($child['new'] ? $txt[333] : $txt[334]) . ' (' . $txt[330] . ': ' . $child['topics'] . ', ' . $txt[21] . ': ' . $child['posts'] . ')">' . $child['name'] . '</a>';
$children[] = $child['new'] ? '<b>' . $child['link'] . '</b>' : $child['link'];
}

echo '
<div style="padding-top: 1px;" class="smalltext"><i>', $txt['parent_boards'], ': ', implode(', ', $children), '</i></div>';
}

echo '
</td>
<td class="windowbg" valign="middle" align="center" style="width: 12ex;"><span class="smalltext">
', $board['posts'], ' ', $txt[21], ' ', $txt['smf88'], '<br />
', $board['topics'], ' ', $txt[330], '
</span></td>
<td class="smalltext" valign="middle" width="22%">';

if (!empty($board['last_post']['id']))
echo '
', $txt[22], ' ', $txt[30], ' ', $board['last_post']['time'], '<br />
', $txt['smf88'], ' ', $board['last_post']['link'], ' ', $txt[525], ' ', $board['last_post']['member']['link'];

echo '
</td>
</tr>';
}
echo '
</table></div>';
}

[Gidget]

Hi

I would like to do this as well.

Could a Guru out there tell me exactly "what code" needs to be moved "where" as per Owdy's helpful post?  I'm not a programmer but I can understand and follow directions 

Thanks in advance

Gidget

[KiwiBlue]

OK put the code in the file, uploaded it, wound up with an error on line 334.  Fixed that, uploaded new file, nett result: absolutely no change.


Back to the old code

[KiwiBlue]

Does anyone have any code that would make this work?  It would really help the hierarchy of my site and I'm sure others too!