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.

[kira]

If you read the previous page, Amy says that the links are in the format:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php?page=1

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php?page=2

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php?page=3

So for example, if you install this product on the site listed in your profile, the link will be:

http://www.samsterteenz.com/Community/index.php?page=2

[TeaTree]

Originally Posted by kira

If you read the previous page, Amy says that the links are in the format:




So for example, if you install this product on the site listed in your profile, the link will be:

http://www.samsterteenz.com/Community/index.php?page=2

Hi,

How would I remove my shoutbox and forum announcement just from that page please?? Also, only the name of the category is on it, not all of the subforums, even though when I put it on the normal forumhome, I see all of the subforums! :s

Many Thanks

[aceofspades]

Is there anyway to change it so its /info.html instead of page2.html ?

[Gehanna]

Hello,

I just installed this and I moved the gallery portion of the forum to page 2. I noticed that there is a little dot just above the forum on that page. I only see it when viewing the forums with Firefox. I can live with it if I have to but if there is a way to remove it can you please tell me how?

If you use Firefox, here is a quick link to show what I mean:

http://www.currentday.com/forums/index.php?page=2

Sincerely,
Gehanna

[amykhar]

This mod makes no template changes. Sorry, I'm not going to be of much help for you.

[Gehanna]

Oh well, a little dot never killed anyone.... on second thought, a little dot of cancer certainly can but then again, we're not talking about people so it's all good

Enough with the silliness from me. In all honesty, I appreciate this hack and I thank you for it.

Sincerely,
Gehanna

[cd1986]

Hi Amy - is there any way to create a conditional based on the forum page number?

[Desainer]

Hey I´ve got a question... I´m still using vbb 3.0. Is it also possible to use this mod on my board?

[amykhar]

Hi Amy - is there any way to create a conditional based on the forum page number?

Check the value of the $page variable.

Hey I?ve got a question... I?m still using vbb 3.0. Is it also possible to use this mod on my board?

No

[Desainer]

Sorry to bother again, but I pluged it in a 3.5.4 but it doesn´t seem to work right. The board places every new category on a new page and I´m not able to decide on what page it should be placed in my admincp... Did I do something wrong? I first made the change in my template and then pluged the file in with "manage Products".