Custom Page Content

[Infrag]

ok i know there are alot of other treads about this, but evey one asking questions in thouse ones seems to be more knowlageable about these things than me :( so i need what looks to be some real nube help here.

Ok so this is what im trying to do:

im looking to make a review/ howto section on my website, via the your portal system. so what i need to set up is first, the review page then a page for each review.

however this is my problem:

i can make the new page but then i have noidea how to add content to this page, i enable the Custom Page Content module but i do not how or where to make my custom page conent

Any help appreated,

Infrag -

[tomshawk]

Hello Infrag,

there are a couple of ways you can do this, and you need to start with asking yourself a couple of questions.

1) Do you want the page to look exactely like the portal meaning you want people to be able to reply with comments, like the news section of the portal?

2) Are these pages only for How to's and no replies i.e. Static Content

Examples of what I mean:
http://www.tech-unity.com/ Main landing page / homepage
http://www.tech-unity.com/qotw.php
http://www.tech-unity.com/articles.php?
These are examples of #1 up top
Pages that look like the portal but the middle block is pulling data from different forums on the site, so the content is different, yet the look is the same.

These are examples of pages I set up, no replies capable, just static content.
http://www.tech-unity.com/index.php?page=Legal
http://www.tech-unity.com/index.php?page=partners
http://www.tech-unity.com/index.php?page=guestmap
http://www.tech-unity.com/index.php?page=staff

Another way to set up static content within the site is the FAQ

http://www.tech-unity.com/forums/faq.php?faq=site_stuff#faq_new_here
http://www.tech-unity.com/forums/faq.php?faq=site_stuff#faq_forum_rules
http://www.tech-unity.com/forums/faq.php?faq=links#faq_tools

Or you can get a kewl little program / hack called pages.php
and make even more pages, again static content, no replies
http://www.tech-unity.com/pages.php?getpage=Virus_Information
http://www.tech-unity.com/pages.php?getpage=IP_Calculator
http://www.tech-unity.com/vouchers.php?getpage=vouchers
http://www.tech-unity.com/requirements.php?getpage=Cert_Req

The choice is yours, answer the questions above so we can help you out.

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[Infrag]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

i think what i would like to do is create a seires of pages with the same basic shell as my portal, but then, with some custom text and pictures in the center colum for reviews etc.

Infrag

[tomshawk]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

i think what i would like to do is create a seires of pages with the same basic shell as my portal, but then, with some custom text and pictures in the center colum for reviews etc.

Infrag

Well, here is an example for you, You can use this as a template for others that you make ;)

Create a Template call it adv_portal_"whatever you want"

Copy this into it then edit as needed with your custom content.


<table width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" border="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" height="21"><center><b>Template Name<center><b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1"<font color="alt1active">Template Name and Description<br>
<br>
< Your Custom Code >

< / Your Custom Code >
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<BR>


Save it

Then go into vBa and create a template module using this modules name Make it a Center module, But, do not update all pages since we dont want it on the homepage as well ;)

Then create a new Page, call it whatever, but you need to fill in the identifier, then select this module, as well as the "custom content module" Deselect all modules you do not want to see on this new page.

Now, to access this page, you go to
http://www.yoursite/index.php?page=identifier
i.e. whatever the identifier is that you named it above

HTH, Good luck ;)

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[Misuzu]

where can i get that pages.php hack thing?

[tomshawk]

where can i get that pages.php hack thing?

vbulletintemplates.com

do a search for "simplepage" minus the quotes ;)

The only problem with this hack, I dont know if you noticed or not,
The dropdown menus in the navbar dont work while in this page.

[Stachel]

tomshawk,

Very helpful post!

And excellent website as well.

Stachel

[tomshawk]

tomshawk,

Very helpful post!

And excellent website as well.

Stachel

Thank you for the kind words.

Soon, I will be replacing the default style I have been using forever with a new custom one, which hopefully will make it even better.

I hope everyone likes it.

I'll post here when it is up and running

[CoLD FeaR]

I've done just like you say but it looks like this now...
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/Riper123/test.jpg

[Stachel]

Hey tomshawk,

what's new with your site?

Anything exciting?

Stachel

[nexus851]

i have a question i would appreciate if you help me out with... i want to show my gallery as a center module.. but my gallery page is just a link (no code content) it's only this "http://www.studentsrus.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=47"

how would i add this gallery link in the center of my page and yet still have the modules on my left and right columns? any help would be very appreciated ...

[Brian]

Can you integrate your other forumdisplay.php pages, or just that one? If it's not a problem to integrate them all then you could use the instructions in the users manual here to do so.