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.

[Hornstar]

I know in my last post it did sound like a lot lol, but im sure when you get time, some of those features would be nice

However, if you get time to do 1 or 2 things then these are the important ones.



1. By default make a forum 1 as it is currently 0 so when creating new forums you dont need to change this and forget like i did and wonder what is going on lol.

2. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=71 This feature would be wonderful, It would save lots of time, and make it more easy to see what is going on. Defently a must

Thanks

[amykhar]

If it's a must, I'm sure somebody will figure it out and post the code Right now for me the only must is getting a medical billing app out the door ;D

[cd1986]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Check the value of the $page variable.

Thank you.

[Hornstar]

Okay, Well found out that I already had a solution to get the http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/index.php?page=2 name changed. It now works as http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/index2.html ^^

[amykhar]

Still seems to be working in 3.6

[tyfoon]

Now I am confused : I was asking information on the vb sales support team because I want to setup a site with this plugin ( with another domainname linked to the second page) and they where telling me at first that I need 2 licenses to do this , even when I didn't use a new domainname but used the /index.php?page=2 as url they still try to tell that I need 2 license for this can anybody help me.

[amykhar]

you do need two licenses if you are using it to make the two domains look different

[tyfoon]

even when you don't use seperated domainnames and use another url ( index.php and index.php?page=2) they tell me that I need 2 licenses also ..

[amykhar]

That can't be true because they've built in somewhat similar functionality into the software. You can display individiual categories on the forumhome page using the built in stuff, but can't specifiy collections of categories or forums

[tyfoon]

I here post the support answer from vbulletin.com sales

The best I can tell is that this page:

http://xxxx/forum/index.php?page=2

...contains content that is not available via the forum home page:

http://xxxx/forum/index.php

Therefore if I understand you corrrectly, this requires separate licenses:

"vBulletin license grants you the right to run one instance (a single installation) of the Software on one web server and one web site for each license purchased. Each license may power one instance of the Software on one domain. For each installed instance of the Software, a separate license is required. Modifications to the software or database to circumvent the one-license-one-board rule are prohibited."

All the best,
Steve Machol
Customer Support Manager, vBulletin

http://www.vbulletin.com/
mailto:support@vbulletin.com

and when I told them the pages are accessible thru the top navbar

they answered my

But it's not available as a standard part of vB, at least not what I can find. That is simply a link you've added manually.

If it is available via the standard vB style and templates, please explain how to access it.

All the best,
Steve Machol
Customer Support Manager, vBulletin

http://www.vbulletin.com/
mailto:support@vbulletin.com

Because I did not agreed with the given answer they passed it thru to one of the devellopers to check it again...

(nice try to sell more licenses)