some suggestions please

Hi, i've just started to help out at http://www.blizzardforums.com/, i'm helping to do a complete over-haul to try and make it look VERY COOL.

my idea is that the 4 main caterories will be treated as seperate forums, each with there own themes, etc.., and the main page is going to be nothing more than 4 images linking though to each of these forums. (are you still with me?)

Now if you take a look at the current front page, we have got a lot of hacks that display information like the welcome panel, stats, etc.. what i'm looking to do is remove this from the frontpage, and insted have it on each of the 4 cat's front pages insted... i'm sure that this should be possable with a bit of hacking, but I need some help being pointed in the right direction, can you guys help me out?

[Admin]

First of all let me just tell you I love the idea, never seen it before but it's a great one.

Now, you can take advantage of an "unknown feature" so to speak, that lets you link to this, for example:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/index.php?s=&forumid=3
And voila, you get the sub forums of forum 3 showing up in the index file.

Of course for your forum it won't work now because you removed the template stuff. So, I'd make an if-else in index.php that basically does:

PHP Code:

if (isset($forumid)) {
  // do the regular index.php stuff, display forums and such
} else {
  // only show the 4 main links to the forums
} 


[Ninth Dimension]

OMG, this is so simple, i can just add the template info back in, and as you say do the if - then statement, this is just too cool.

Thank you, i'll let you know how I get on.

[Ninth Dimension]

OK, you are going to have to point me in the right direction here (in theory this is easy, in pratice it's a pain in the arse), would you maybe be able to help me out by giving me a few more pointers, ie, where about this if statement should go ?

What i'm thinking is that I would have the basic forumhome template, and a second one with the 4 images? am I close?

(sorry, my brain is really not working today)

[Admin]

Since your file is hacked I can't tell for sure, PM me with the file and I'll take a look.

[Ninth Dimension]

ah, now we have a problem, i can't get access to the file cos he has not set me up an ftp account yet, but as soon as i have a copy of the file, i'll pm it to you.

thank you

PS, you are the president!!!!

[Ninth Dimension]

PM sent, looking foward to seeing your code and thank you for your help.

[Chris M]

Great Idea...

Did it work?

Satan

[Ninth Dimension]

Yeah - I could not work it out myself, so firefly sent me the code, you wanna copy?