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.

[Talisman]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

You can do the above with http://www.vbseo.com/222/ check out my site to see it in use

www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/gfx.html is page 2
www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/techzone.html is page 3



**Urgent problem**

I've been using this for a very long time. and now that im on vb 3.6.4 I have now lost the setting in the admincp, in forum manager, where you set what page that forum is on, that is now no longer there. so i cant change any of the current pages, and any new forums I add, they are now being set on page 1.

Thanks for the suggestion, hornstar, but my forum is for a somewhat private group. We're more interested in keeping site crawlers out than attracting new members through search engine query results. So buying that mod won't work for us. I'm hoping someone can help me modify this code to achieve the same result (assigning named pages instead of numeric ones).

As for your urgent problem: After you've installed upgrade files, just reupload the same xml file as before to overwrite the bits that got changed and the hack still works without any trouble. Remember to check the box that says to overwrite what was there before.

Thanks, again! :bunny:

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by Talisman

Thanks for the suggestion, hornstar, but my forum is for a somewhat private group. We're more interested in keeping site crawlers out than attracting new members through search engine query results. So buying that mod won't work for us. I'm hoping someone can help me modify this code to achieve the same result (assigning named pages instead of numeric ones).

As for your urgent problem: After you've installed upgrade files, just reupload the same xml file as before to overwrite the bits that got changed and the hack still works without any trouble. Remember to check the box that says to overwrite what was there before.

Thanks, again! :bunny:

I just tried doing that then, then checked to see if it was there, and it wasn't. So for some reason, since the update on my forum, I no longer have the option to set the page number, which is the most important feature.

[Cyricx]

I have had no luck getting this to work with 3.6.4

It still shows the forums on page 1 that are set to display on page 2, and page 2 comes up blank.

Any clues?

[amykhar]

I haven't had time to play with it on 3.6.4 yet.

[Cyricx]

I figured out what I was doing...

It does indeed work.

I forgot that I had to enable the parent forum for the sub forums to display :P

My bad

Great hack Amy!

[TimIng2211]

This is a great little mod and perfect for my needs.

One thing I'm struggling is this, I can see the category and forums on page2 no problem, but when in a forum, when clicking on the articles link in the breadcrumb navigation at the top, I am taken to Page1 not back to page2 (library.html) - www.digigreen.net/forums/index.php?page=2 then to any of the forums.

How do I change this?

Cheers,

Tim

[amykhar]

Tim, that's a good point. It's one I'll have to think about correcting for a new version.

[Discussions]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Tim, that's a good point. It's one I'll have to think about correcting for a new version.

It would be appreciated!

[wtrk]

on the additional pages, the minimize forums button doesnt let you unminimize the forums. once its shrunk you cant open it back up again. on 3.6.0

[amykhar]

I can on my site on 3.6.4 Check the 'More Goodies' page on my site to see it in action.