Want to include.....

[fire13]

......a forum on my site.

Can one of you kind people point the way to a 'How to include a forum tutorial'.

I have looked here but can't for the life of me find it.

Thanks.

[fire13]

I'm wanting to change the style of my phpbb forum. When I'm in the style section of the admin board I can't see a way of importing a style. Am I missing something here?

[fire13]

I've been playing about as you do & I've hit a problem. I'm getting this error now while trying to install. Not sure what to delete. Also if I try to install the SMF discussion board that installs OK but when I click visit site it takes me to my site not the board. I think I need to install to another directory or something like that.

Any help appreciated.

Install phpBB (2/3)


The installation can not be completed:

- You chose to install in the main directory of the domain boltonlesandsfirestation.co.uk, but there are conflicting filenames, therefore we can not proceed. Following filenames already exist in the main directory of the domain boltonlesandsfirestation.co.uk (path="/home/fire13/public_html/").You must manually remove these files before proceeding with auto-installation:
images
.htaccess

[fire13]

Well I've sorted out the SMF problem.

[Rock]

Glad to hear that you've sorted out the forum problem You can explain the fixture here so that it'd help our other fellow members too..

[fire13]

Well it was user error as normal for me.

When it came to where to install it I just left the box blank. It would install OK but when I clicked view site it took me to mine instead of the forum. All I needed to do was enter a name for it to install to. Easy when you know how.

Still haven't sorted the problem with the conflicting filenames for the phpBB board though. Not to important now as I've got the SMF board up & running.

Hope you don't mind me wittering away in the open here. I sometimes see the answer to my question by looking at what I posted.

[jc8654]

I witter on here all time so I wouldn't worry about it. Lol.

[fire13]

I'm using the SMF board & was wondering if it was possible to include a link back to my site?

Please tell me if I should ask this on their site. I did some searches on it but to no avail.

Thanks

[RSVEcosse]

Originally Posted by fire13

I'm using the SMF board & was wondering if it was possible to include a link back to my site?

Please tell me if I should ask this on their site. I did some searches on it but to no avail.

Thanks

To have a "click" on your sites main banner take you back to your sites homepage, this code should do the trick ( additions required are in bold and red text ) :-

// The logo, user information, news, and menu.
	echo '
	<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="95%" class="tborder">
		<tr style="background-color: #ffffff;">
			<td valign="middle" align="left"><a href="HOMEPAGEURL" target="_blank"><img src="', !empty($settings['header_logo_url']) ? $settings['header_logo_url'] : $settings['images_url'] . '/smflogo.gif', '" alt="" /></a></td>
			<td valign="middle">';

You can change the behaviour of the "HOME" button on the SMF forums so that clicking on that returns you to the home page of your main site rather than the main index of your forums. I'll dig out the code for that method and post back shortly.

Hope that helps.

[fire13]

Thanks for that RSVEcosse.

I'll have a go at that this weekend.

Thanks.

[RSVEcosse]

No probs, glad to assist.

Forgot to mention, when you go looking for that code to edit, you will find it in the index.template.php in the currently used theme folder.

[fire13]

Right.

Am I right in assuming I need to load the forum on to my PC to edit the code. Using frontpage at the moment.

[RSVEcosse]

I usually just download the php forum file in question and edit it in Dreamweaver.

I assume Frontpage will do this also, although I'm not entirely sure as I dont use it.

Failing that, download a copy of the php file in question, open it with a text editor such as Notepad and save it as a php file once the changes have been carried out?.

As I said, I usually just download a copy of whatever file needs editing and open it off the bat with DW CS3.

[jc8654]

Frontpage will do it but you'll need to set it on to code view.

You could always do it using the file manager in cPanel if you're using linux.

[fire13]

Thanks for the replies RSVEcosse & jc8654.

Will try on Sunday, bit busy tomorrow.