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.

[sokol]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

I have been using this for over a year now and it has been working good. hopefully it will continue to work for 3.7



Go to forum manager, and any forum you want to change to a different page, then you will need to set which page you want it shown on.
Have you done this?

For us who are running /forums/index.php

The code to show page 2 is: /forums/index.php?page=2

Have you tried: forum.php?page=2

Yep, have the majority of my forums on page 1, with 5 of them on page 2.
http://sgwcommand.com/forum.php

Explorers League Command and all it's Sub Forums are set to page 2.


~Sokol

[Hornstar]

The forums you selected for page 2. Are they still showing on the main page?

Edit, read above, so I think they are.

I guess the problem for you is that this was designed to work with index.php and not forum.php

I am not sure if she will support this ever, but my feelings are this mod is not going to be updated again, but she could surprise us, you never know.

[Hornstar]

Try uninstalling your copy.

then backup your database - if you are not experienced with this, then do not install the below product.

I am not a coder by any means at all, I think I may have found the problem, but please ensure you backup your database, as I will not be held responsible if the below product causes any problems.

The below is only to be installed if your having problems and your directory is /forum.php instead of the standard /forums/index.php and only if you want to backup your database first.

[sokol]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Try uninstalling your copy.

then backup your database - if you are not experienced with this, then do not install the below product.

I am not a coder by any means at all, I think I may have found the problem, but please ensure you backup your database, as I will not be held responsible if the below product causes any problems.

The below is only to be installed if your having problems and your directory is /forum.php instead of the standard /forums/index.php and only if you want to backup your database first.

Did you modify the xml from:

PHP Code:

if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
global $page;
if($forum['page'] != $page)
{
    $tempext = '';
}
} 


to

PHP Code:

if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'forum')
{
global $page;
if($forum['page'] != $page)
{
    $tempext = '';
}
} 


I think that is the solution, as it's looking for the index page which I renamed forum.

That changed worked. Thank you for the help!

Thanks,
Sokol

[sokol]

I Modified this to make use of settings for the name of the script rather then have it hard coded.

Vbulelting settings >> Split Forumhome Settings.

You will most likely leave this set to default "index" but if you are like me, and use a custom page for your index page, this will come in handy.

Note: I take no credit in this as all I did is add settings to modify the script name for the forums.

I've tested it in 3.6.x

~Sokol

[Hornstar]

yeah that is all I changed. Glad it worked for you.

[swissknife]

will this work at 3.7. too ?

[Hornstar]

I sure hope so, as im about to upgrade myself as well. Ideally it would be lovely if it was updated for 3.7 and a few new features was added. But if not, lets hope it works.

[swissknife]

It dosnt work, i tried.

i would be very, very, VERY happy, if this would be updated! this addon is one of my most important!!!!

[swissknife]

ok, i need this really. I will pay for it. Please contact me for an offer.