I have been using CB for a while and always found that the userlists to be hard to search and they tend to consume a huge amount of page space.

in my new site I have a ton of members that need to be sorted by state.
(and on top of that they need to be searched by zip code radius..buts thats another long tiring post)

in this new site I really need to squeeze as many users in the list on one page

similar to how SOBI listings are laid out in a grid


I do not want to use CB super thumb or CB Userlist modules as they have no search function an only allow displaying by "new users, popular users,friends, etc etc"
They do not allow sorting by alpha
nor they tie into the search function.
nor do they allow profile text to be included.

I have tried
cb superthumb
cb userlist
ninja usersplash

none of these modules can achieve the neccesary layout.

I have tried to modify my CSS files but I am afraid that without a tutorial or some guidance I am just stabbing in the dark.

I have read some posts on the forum but most are 3 years old and none really address they style I am trying to acheive

suggestions?

attached is my desired screen layout
heres an example of what I am trying to achieve

Post edited by: jakobe75, at: 2010/02/24 19:39

It's definitely possible to achieve what you're wanting with just the aide of CSS; have seen it done by a user (please search). I recommend reviewing tutorials here to better learn the usage of CSS.

The following CSS will display as you're wanting.


Replace LIST-ID-HERE with your Userlist ID. Set your userlist to user 2 columns. The first column containing only Profile Image. Then set the column titles as _UE_BLANK. If this language string is not defined in your language file (should be) then define it as '' (blank). Ensure captions are enabled for column 2. Adjust the width in the CSS above as necessary.

Post edited by: krileon, at: 2010/02/25 20:42

thanks ..gonna try your mod tonite

meanwhile I am using this


builder.joomlapraise.com/index.php?optio...slist&Itemid=211


I am surprised more people havent mentioned it..seeing that 50% of the users are unhappy wiht the default userlist layout.

this works with any template but requires a little css modification in order to do so..but its simple.

That can also be done with a CB template as CB templates allow modification of certain layout aspects of userlist. Between CSS and templates it would be easy to achieve various new looks to a CB site, but of course will take some work.

work doesnt scare me

What do you mean by CB templates?
I know that there are a few default templates included.

but
is there a way to create them easily?
..or a resource of some sort.

Praisebuilder was the only resource I found so far that provide .just a CB template as a plugin,

I found a few others but most were complete site templates..all with very limited module positions

I guess those developers thought that people would use the site ONLY as a socialnet...and forgot that we like to include other content on our sites as well.

so I stopped looking for a while.

I was using cb profile pro.. but it caused way too many errors on the site and bogged it down.

I had to remove it

MyCommunity and Coolness templates are examples of the template system at work; however they do not include a PHP file to modify the code of the CB template it's possible to provide one as such. Please examine CBs default template as you can copy the default.php and default.xml files; edit, rename.. then you've now gotten a new template. You could also examine any of the numerous plugins such as Luna or Dark, but they too do not have PHP files (copy default templates PHP file and rename it as necessary).