How do i - Forum sections [FORUM / MODS]

[aceofspades]

On this site there is one VB install which is divided up into two sections, forum and mods. I have been looking for a way to do this for some time. Can someone please tell me how i can do this. I have been looking for a mod to do this on here but it seems there isnt one, or at least i cant find it. Im basically looking to give the impression of two boards, something like this:

News=

Forum1
Forum2

Media=

Forum1
Forum2


I would really appreciate any help with this,

Regards,

James

I have just spoken to Floris, he has given me a possible way or doing what i need, but because im not a coder i dont really understand what i need to do. Can anyone help me out with the code i require.


<Floris> What you can do is have a template conditional to not display a certain category on forumhome.
<Floris> And then have a custom style overwrite the forum you want to display different
<Floris> as long as the navbar allows users to click back to the full home and the url is the same, etc.
<Floris> (in other words, doesn't appear as a seperate forum) .. one license will do just fine.

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<Floris> <if condition="$forumid['x'] != 'x'"> normal code </if> in the appropiate template
<Floris> or at least something like that
<Floris> and then make a new custom style and go to the forum manager and set it to overwrite.
<Floris> and upddate forumhome with a tab to link to the new section.

[aceofspades]

Bump?

[tgreer]

What I've done on www.tgreer.com/printforum, is simply create a menu by editing the navbar template. Each of the buttons navigates to one of the Forum Categories. So, you don't really need a plugin or anything like that: just a menu bar, and your forum organized into Forum Categories with sub-forums underneath.

[peterska2]

I'll write up how I did mine later for you. (Just going out so can't write it up straight away) You can't see it as it is the admin forums that I have on their own page with a hidden navbar link, but it works just nice. Alternatively, have a look in amykhar's profile and she has a mod there to split forum home into two or more pages.

[tgreer]

Couldn't the OP simply create two Forum Categories, with two sub-forums under each? Then, a couple of buttons in the navbar? The first button links to the "news" forum, the other to the "media"?

I don't see the need for any template conditionals or alternate styles, or even any template editing beyond "navbar". What am I missing?

[peterska2]

exactly thats how i did mine through manipulation of forum settings and navbar edits

[aceofspades]

I don't see the need for any template conditionals or alternate styles, or even any template editing beyond "navbar". What am I missing?

What i need is several catagorys that appear on one 'page', and another set that apprear on the other. Adding links in the nav bar isnt a help because that only allows them to view a hidden catagory, what i want to be able to do is have several catagorys appear on the new page, not just one.

The mod whereby you can split the forum into several pages is perfect, apart from the fact that you cannot rename the addy, i.e infopage.html instead of page1, page 2 etc. On top of that i dont want them to be split up because there are too many catagorys on one page, i want it to be split up in terms of content, the page mod wouldnt work because on page1 i would need 4 catagorys, page 2 i would need 12, page 3 i would need 2 etc.

If you can please post the way you would do it with conditions i would really appreciate it.

Regards,

James

[tgreer]

Hidden category? Huh? No - you make your link a link to a Forum Category. Did you look at the link to my forum I provided? Sorry, I'm not very clear on what you want, or why a simple forum organization via Categories/Sub-forums won't work.

[aceofspades]

The best way of explaining it is this forum (or at least how it was before they changed the mods page).

The forum page has catagorys :
Cat 1
Cat 2
Cat 3
Cat 4
Cat 5

The mod page has the following catagorys:

Cat 6
Cat 7
Cat 8
Cat 9
Cat 10

So in effect it looks like there are two different forums, because on each page (mods and forums) there are totally different catagorys containing totally different forums within the catagorys. However it is just one piece of software, just using conditionals to hide the catagorys from view on each page only showing the catagorys related to that page, i.e Cat1 for the forum page.

[tgreer]

Let's be clear on our terms: a "Category" is a forum that contains other forums. You control whether a forum is a true forum, or a category, in your AdminCP.

When you link directly to a category, what you get is a forumdisplay page, listing all the forums within a category.

For example: http://www.tgreer.com/printforum/forumdisplay.php?f=7

vs. : http://www.tgreer.com/printforum/forumdisplay.php?f=3

That was your original question, how to do this. The way I do this is to create some buttons in my navbar template, with each button set to link to a specific Category.

If your first post was incorrect, and instead you want THREE levels of forum:

meta-category | category | forum

and want to organize your "meta-categories" with conditionals, then I'm sorry, I can't help you with that.

[aceofspades]

I know what a catagory is...ill include the forums this time then.

[TECH NEWS PAGE]

Catagory 1
-Forum1

Catagory2
-Forum2

[GAMING NEWS PAGES]

-Catagory3
-Forum3

-Catagory4
-Forum4

I want these two pages to be totally separate, like the forum page is separate to the mods page on this site. I meant catagorys in my first post, not forums. Sorry about that.