display first post different style

i've made a custom template for a news page, and would like to post the first news as an admin, with the replies having a different style.

im fine with changing the layout and styles in the read.tpl, but how would i get the first message of the thread to display? then the rest of the messages wrapped in a different style...

any help much appreciated :)

by the way you've misspelled language on the downloads page.

You can look at the parent_id field in the message to see if it's the first message in a thread. If parent_id is zero, then you have the parent. Based on that, you can produce different template code. You could assign an extra class to the container div or do a totally different block of HTML. That's up to you.

Inside the {LOOP MESSAGES} loop, you could use code like:

{IF NOT MESSAGES->parent_id}
   ... the code that you need for the thread starter ...
{/IF}

Possibily include an {ELSE} to also cover the case for reply messages.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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