you would have to rename this to something else, like forum.php.
you would have to edit a lot of templates then, mostly redirection templates as thos try to get you back on forums main page which was index.php before.
you might experience other problems i might not be aware of.

result: dont do that

you better keep it vbindex.php and put a .htaccess file in your root folder that tells a visitors browser that NOT index.php but vbindex.php is the file to go to first when the root url is called.
i dont have the syntax for it here but search the forums for htaccess & DirectoryIndex and you will find it.

greetz

kreftt

Ok I have looked at every post in this thread... Interesting reading.

I like the hack alot unlike most this one makes about 60% sence to me :)

I started playing with lay out already but there is one thing I must have maybe some one can help.

phpportal had a quote of day or emphirid or something.

I would love to have something like that wich works with vbindex.

The demo site has something like it on that site.. either would be perfect thanks for help in advance.

hey buddy, got a quick question... not of vital importance, but seeing as i'm a nitpicker, i have to ask.

check out this screenshot. do you have any idea why mozilla would display your script like this? the symbols don't appear in the regular forum pages, but on the pages i made with your script, they often do.

any thoughts... it's not a problem in IE, but i'd still like it to work properly in Moz.

thanks.

Buddha, is that Moz on Win32 or on Linux? Aslo what is that character supposed to be?

Thats KuraFires quote hack.

Added to ignore list.

ntldr, it's win32... sorry, should have been more specific. v1.2.1

as for the character, the upper one is a french accent on the e... "cliche".

the bottom symbol are part of a bulleted list. what's odd is that it doesn't do this on all the pages, which is why i was wondering if you might know what part of the code determines this behavior... i can then check it more closely to see if there are differences (although there really shouldn't be... it was a straight copy with only a few minor changes made for the templates and the forum id's).

thanks bud.

oh, and btw, those bottom bullets are within a replacement string that is constant in all of my pages (which use your script), so it's not that which is the problem... it's something within the php file.

thanks.

I would imagine the error is due to the character set thats being used. Try using the HTML Entity for the letter you want and see if that works (Here's a list of them http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/ht...es/latin1.html).

So I would image your looking for é which is é.

thanks for the link... i found it strange that the same characters displayed properly in the forum, but not always in your script. especially the bullets... regardless, i'll just used the long code on this site.

very much appreciated, as always.
i'll be opening my site up to the general public shortly, and you are welcomed to use it as an example of what your script can do. i'm very grateful for the work you've done!

take care.

kreftt.... Thank you for the advice. I'm still beta testing this particular board, and I'll try that and a few other options as well.

What I'm undecided about however is to where I want the users to spend the majority of their time. Do I want them to constantly be re-directed back to myvbindex? Or do I want them to see the list of different forums I am offering?

The way I figure, once they see the news and gadgets on myvbindex once per day, they are pretty much done with it, and will want to get to the *meat* of the board.

I need to join a couple of boards using this hack and get a good feel for it.