How to get to main forum from portal page?

[Megadeuce]

I see that for this web site there is a forums link to get to the main forum page but my hack installed perfectly but I don't see the link to my forums.

Can I get them to show up under my new section on my portal page?

[Brian]

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41

[Megadeuce]

Ok that worked.

One last question that I didn't see in the thread was what should be the name of my old index page be and what should the name of the original file cmps_index be?

when I click the forum link it goes to ......forums/?

[Brian]

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking... Either file can be called whatever you'd like though.

[Megadeuce]

Sorry for not being clear.

I renamed my original index.php file to index.php.old
and I renamed the cmps_index.php file to index.php

When I click the forums link, I get a blank screen saying that the page doesn't exist.

Where should these files be located and what should they be named?

[Brian]

This thread should help you.

[Megadeuce]

I followed the instructions but the forums link goes to the index page.

[Brian]

What do you have in your navbar for those links?

[Megadeuce]

My navbar has:
forums, UserCP, FAQ, Memeber List, Calendar, New Posts, Search, Quicklinks and Log out

I used the code from the link you provided above

There is a forums homepage link in the AdminCP that takes me to my orignal index page. That is where I expected the forums link in the navbar to take me.

[Megadeuce]

I still haven't been able to get to my main form from the index page

Here is my forum index page www.gamenebula.com/forums

Here is my main forums page www.gamenebula.com/forums/forums.php

[Brian]

Sorry, but I'm not sure what you're saying the problem is...

[Megadeuce]

My problem was on my navbar. I used the instructions provided here to like the index page to the forums page but the link didn't work. The link from the forum page to the index page worked. I just hard coded the links with full http://www.

Even though I renamed my original index file to forums and put forums as the php script file, it still didn't work

[Greebo]

Having the same problem here. CMPS is installed in the root of the web, sharing the same location with the forums.

My old index.php is now forumindex.php
CMPS_index.php is now index.php

My navbar template has been edited so that what was:

<!--<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">Home</a></td>-->

Is now:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]$session[sessionurl]"> Forums <else /> <a href="$vboptions[homeurl]$session[sessionurl]"> Home </if></a></td>

On the forums, I get a "Home" link in the nav bar which works properly.
On the CMPS main page I get a Forums link which goes back to the CMPS main page.

Help?

[Brian]

<td class="vbmenu_control"><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]"> Forums <else /> <a href="$vboptions[homeurl]$session[sessionurl]"> Home </if></a></td>

[Greebo]

EXCELLENT - that did the trick! (Beats hardcoding the url which is what I'd ended up doing. ) Thanks a ton!

[systemX]

hey brian,

i used your code that you posted, and it works, but heres the catch.

this is my domain name - www.blah.com
and this is where vbadvanced is - www.blah.com/forums/vb/
plus thats where my vb forum is too - www.blah.com/forums/vb/
that means im sharing the folders between those 2 progs

the thing is in the forum page, the home link will redirect to www.blah.com and not the vbadvanced page, how do i fix that?

and is it normal for the vbadvanced forum link to show my forum page link? my forum page link is index_forum.php and when i highlight it, it shows that and not something else like the question mark that this site has.

and how do you add the content thats in the middle section? i tried posting stuff in the forum but its not appearing in the middle section.

please advise thanks!

[systemX]

hey, figured my problem, just go to admincp, and change the homepage to direct it to somewhere else

i still cant figure how you add the threads in the middle section of the portal, please advise thanks

[Brian]

Originally Posted by systemX

i still cant figure how you add the threads in the middle section of the portal, please advise thanks

You need to enter something for your 'News Forum ID' option in your default settings.