Extra page driven by forum templates

This is a really simple hack. This is for adding other pages to your site all driven by the forums templates. This also has instructions for adding it to whos online!


Example:
http://www.yaxay.com/yack/privacy.php?s=

This page is driven via the normal forum templates.
Sshot of admin area for this page:


Sshot of whos online if the person is on the page:



The instructions are for installing a page for a privacy statement. But just replace all instances of privacy, and privacy.php with the page you are creating. Very easy.

Instructions attached. :classic:

[Talisman]

Originally posted by Erwin
Interesting... similar to my "HTML/ JAVA integrator hack" - didn't know that this one existed when I wrote mine.

This is really great. Thank you c-prOmpt.

And I'm glad I found your html/txt/java integrator and flash hacks, Erwin, before I came across this one. Will plan to use them all for our site.

We have a number of Admins supporting our site, with all different areas of expertise. I can use the approach in this hack for our fairly static, text-based pages of reference material and our Admins can easily update the appropriate template(s), as needed.

Will then use Erwin's hack for the more dynamic pages we want to integrate that our web-guys can use with more complex html coding, flash movies, java applets, etc.

It's truly a pleasure to browse through the many threads here. And it really helps me understand how to better maintain and develop our site.

Thanks, again.

[Zombie-F]

This is exactly what I was just looking for! Thanks for the nifty little hack. I'm sure I'll use it for more than just the Privacy Statement.

[Red Blaze]

I wanted to make something like this, is there a way to keep guests from entering certain pages I'd make? Lets say I'm making an MP3 section and I only want members to access that page. Do you know what I mean?

Also, I wanted to move the files else where besides the forums directory. For example I want all the pages on my main directory. www.mysite.com. Not on the /forums directory. I tried moving the new php files I made and I got this error.

Warning: main(./admin/config.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /home/thesonic/public_html/forums/global.php on line 129

I'm guessing the problem lies with in global.php. Can someone help me out?

[Triality159]

i am also having a problem..I get this error

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/advanced/public_html/advertising.php:7) in /home/advanced/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 1652

someone please help

thanks

[Triality159]

nvm i got this fixed.....

[dotagious]

Would this work with a small cgi based script?

[Slybone]

GReat Job, Just what I needed
/me clicks install

[gmarik]

Originally Posted by c-pr0mpt

This is a really simple hack. This is for adding other pages to your site all driven by the forums templates. This also has instructions for adding it to whos online!


Example:
http://www.yaxay.com/yack/privacy.php?s=

This page is driven via the normal forum templates.
Sshot of admin area for this page:


Sshot of whos online if the person is on the page:



The instructions are for installing a page for a privacy statement. But just replace all instances of privacy, and privacy.php with the page you are creating. Very easy.

Instructions attached. :classic:

Any live demo?
There are plentu of hacks like this, why is this better than, for example, the one Logician made?

[glo]

Originally Posted by gmarik

There are plentu of hacks like this, why is this better than, for example, the one Logician made?

Exactly what i was thinking!

Gmarik, what did you discover?

[Mythlander]

Thank you for this hack. Very simple and straightforward. I'm amazed vB doesn't have a mechanism to view the TOS/Privacy Statement after you've registered.