Changing index.php for custom category list?

I share my forums with some other motorsport sites including some rally sites. What I would like to do for them is allow them to link to my front page but only see the rallying and one other category i.e. I have the categories[*]General[*]Racing[*]Rallying[*]Computers[*]Private Messaging

Want I want to do is create a new index.php say rallyindex.php which will only display[*]General[*]Rallying[*]Private Messaging

I've had a look around index.php but can't make head nor tail of it. Anyone be kind enough to help?

ah yes i see... i am slowing down on this and other hacks... waiting for word on the next release...

thanks

Yeah, this is the only hack i am installing :-), i got what you want working:

see http://www.ascifi.com/forums/index.php
same as
http://www.ascifi.com/forums/index.php?go=1

shows the stargate forums:

see http://www.ascifi.com/forums/index.php?go=2

shows sci-fi movies forums

of course 3 levels of categories would be better, hopefully in next release. Wonder how long :smile:

Chris,

How'd you do that?

Originally posted by chrispadfield
Yeah, this is the only hack i am installing :-), i got what you want working:

see http://www.ascifi.com/forums/index.php
same as
http://www.ascifi.com/forums/index.php?go=1

shows the stargate forums:

see http://www.ascifi.com/forums/index.php?go=2

shows sci-fi movies forums

of course 3 levels of categories would be better, hopefully in next release. Wonder how long :smile:

cool so it works... the reason i wanted it is to start up forums unrelated to my vb... conincidently the off topic forums on my site are sci-fi/fantasy/tv related

Make it so that you have only one index.php. Put this at the top:

if (isset($go)) {
if ($go==1) {
$catname="Stargate";
$yourcat="1_2_3_4_5_6";
} elseif ($go==2) {
$catname="Sci Fi Films";
$yourcat="7_8_9_10_11_12_13";
} elseif ($go==3) {
$catname="Farscape";
$yourcat="14_15_16_17_18";
} else {
$catname="";
$yourcat="1_2_3_4_5_6";
}
} else {
$catname="";
$yourcat="1_2_3_4_5_6";

As you can see, i have 3 'versions' of index.php

1) Stargate
2) SciFi Films
3) farscape

with go=1 for stargate
with go=2 for films
with go=3 for farscape

but by setting the else statements to the same categories as go=1 (ie stargate) then a call to index.php without go will result in just showing the stargate categories.

See what i mean.

Any one got any ideas on my question though? how to make it so that a call to index.php without go will just take you to a different html page. Thanks

conincidently the off topic forums on my site are sci-fi/fantasy/tv related

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Hehe.. competition hey.. agghhh... guess i know who not to help from now on :smile:

you say:

4) In the forumhome template, you can insert the variable $catname wherever you want the custom list name to appear.

I would like to be able to have the url

like http://www.domain.com/forums/index2.php?go=$num

is that going to be ok if i do


if ($go==1) {
$catname="Stargate";
$yourcat="1_2_3_4_5_6";
$num="1"

like that and then just put the above url in the template. Do i need to add anything else anywhere to make this work?

Thank you.

Ok this does not work. Somewhere do i need to add the variable $catnumber to make it work?

Thank you, this would be extremley helpfull.

Ok, i was being silly. This does work. Ignore my request :-)

Sorry to continue this, but I am stuck:

Ok, I have got what I was talking about for the main pages and also for the thread page (using the same procedure but for forumid.

The problem is i don't know how to do it for showthread because i can't use the ?threadid because i do not know in advance which category it will be in.

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So... is there anything inside showthread that i can use as a variable to test to see which category that is in. If i know which category it is in then i can add what I need. So how do I find out?

Thanks. Hope that makes sense.