Split ForumHome Page into Multiple Pages

What it does is to allow you to take some forums off your Forum Home page and display them on a second instance of the forumhome page.

This is useful if you have a long list of forums and have some forums like archives that your users don't need to access very often.

This mod differs from Kirby's (Andreas's) in that his allows you to limit the NUMBER of forums shown per page. Mine allows you to select the specific forums to show.

I have not tested it, but I believe this will allow you to use any number of forumhome pages. You could do one per category if you show chose.

This is now a product. No code changes are required on your part. Please note that if you have microstats installed, it will yell about an uncached template. The template is not uncached. It doesn't exist. It is not creating extra queries. I am not sure how to suppress that error at this point.

My thanks to Kirby for pointing the way on how to make the functions_forumlist part of this mod a plugin instead of a code change.

Demo:

Page One
Page Two

Instructions:
1. Install the product.
2. Go to each forum and set which page to display it on. 1,2,3 etc. I have only tested 1 and 2.
3. Create links to the other instances of forumhome. Put these links where you would like them to be - in your navbar, side panel, header, tabs, whereever. Example links are the demo links posted above.
4. Contribute something to this site. Help somebody with a question or release some code of your own. Keep the giving circle going.

[amykhar]

you need to go into your forum manager and edit the forums to indicate what page they should be on.

[Desainer]

Originally Posted by amykhar

you need to go into your forum manager and edit the forums to indicate what page they should be on.

I tried that, but it doesn't ask for a page like in your attachment.

[amykhar]

Sounds like you didn't upload the bitfield xml file correctly then.

[Desainer]

Oke thanks, then I'll try it a diffent way

[Desainer]

I tried it a different way but it still won´t work. Do I have to do something special after I add the plugin to my board? btw, it is listed on my Installed Products list...

[amykhar]

oops. This one doesn't have a bitfield xml file. That's what I get for trying to work from memory. If the product imported successfully, you should be able to open any forum in the forum manager and find a box to put in page. Without seeing your forum manager, I don't know if it's there or not.

I know the mod works in 3.5.4 because I still use it.

[Desainer]

Aaah I found it! I used version 1.0.. Now I tried version 1.5 and it works fine! Thanks for the support anyways... You're great!

[Hornstar]

Hi, Amy, This is what I have been looking for.

However, I am willing to donate a little bit of money to you, if you could offer some of your time to finish doing a few requests.


Request 1:
Instead of /index.php?page=2 I would like it to be /whatEverIchoose.html

Request 2:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=71 If this could be done.

Request 3:
Some people were discussing about having each page a style or something. If that could be done.

Question:
Will this work on VB 3.6 or will a new port need to be done (They changed something so not sure if it will be compatible), as I will be upgrading to vb 3.6 most likely in 1 month if thats when it comes out of beta.


I am a big fan of your work, and I can understand that apart from doing this, you would have a busy life.

Thus why I feel a donation may go a big way.

Of course if you would like to do this for free, that would be great (after moving to a dedicated server its put on keeping my site up as its costing soooo much.)

you may pm me, or talk here, I dont mind. But I feel this hack is one of a kind, and really makes the forum less clattered and more organised and user friendly.

So thanks.

[amykhar]

I'm sorry, but I just can commit to it right now.

[Coast to Coast]

I just added it to "The-week.net" and have 3 pages up, working with perfection!