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.

[utw-Mephisto]

Originally Posted by Lost_Prophet

That's what I do. But the idea was for each page (containing two different catagories) to have its own theme.

This is how I accomplished it :

Mainforum : http://ut2007world.com/index.php?langid=1&styleid=39
Subforums : http://ut2007world.com/index.php?pag...d=2&styleid=45 (Click on forum (Deutsch) )

Both using now even vbadvanced

I also changed all the other link used to browse through the forums, like banner etc., which was easy since I do use two different styles, hence I could modify banner, header, footer and navbar accordingly.

You will realise that even a language id is used to convert the 2nd forum to german and I also phrased the vbadvanced for the 2nd part (yes I do have a branding free option - in case you will ask ..)

Once again Amy, THANKS

I usually have a small country flags to jump back and forth, but they are disabled as long as we are not finished with the 2nd part (will be imported from a wbb forum)


Regarding forumjump : It does not appear on forumhome .. so you DON'T have it .. I am not sure if this is what they require though ...But IF it violates the license, I am more than happy to get one .. worth the result

[utw-Mephisto]

Amy, is there a way to force a style and language to a certain page ?

[^SuiCyde^]

i think if i understood this correctly, the person above you just answered that question......... you just have to implement the style and language in your links to switch between pages........

[aceofspades]

Can someone please please tell me how i would go about changing the names of the pages. For example i would like page2 to be news.html

Can someone please tell me how i can achieve this

[utw-Mephisto]

This needs to be down with rewrite rules using .htaccess, but since I am using vbseo - it was easy to do it that way ...

[aceofspades]

I am also using VBSEO (well, i plan to buy it next week anyway), can you tell me how i would do it with SEO installed please?

[utw-Mephisto]

So you use it but you did not buy it ?!? Sounds dodgy ...

Anyway, create a custom rewrite rule

'index\.php\?page=ut2004world&langid=2&styleid=45' => 'deutsch.html'

[aceofspades]

No no i mean im making a new forum up this week (havent started yet) and i plan to use SEO, but since i havent brought my second VB licence i havent brought my second seo licence yet either becuase i havent got any hosting to put the files on.

Could you please tell me more about the custom rewite rule. What file do i put this information in, and where do i put this file. Im sorry to be a noob but im new to the whole modding thing. Thanks for your help

[utw-Mephisto]

Once you bought vbseo you have an admin menu with a section called Custom Rewrite Rules and there you put it in .. no file edit .

[PanamaRed]

getting this error:

XML Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity at Line 1

I have this installed in a test area and was able to get 13 pages working just fine, but when I went to install onto the live site, it gave the above error.

I am not too well versed with Vbulletin, so I may be missing something or doing something incorrectly.

Please Advise