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.

[Southpaw]

I have a slight problem;
I can't seem to edit the settings of any forums anymore. Here is the error message I get:

Fatal error: Field page is not defined in $validfields in class vb_datamanager_forum in /includes/class_dm.php on line 485

Does anybody else seem to have this problem?


Using the product, not the old hack.

[Detomah]

/me notes the update as a reminder to self, but doesn't install just yet as the previous version is working just dandy at the moment and the hassle needed to swap it over doesn't warrent the change until the next vBulletin update.

Thanks Amy, it seems that I use every hack you ever make.

The only one that I haven't got from you that I really want, is the smiley categories hack, but i'll get round to signing up for your site to get hold of that one day.

[amykhar]

I am no longer distributing that hack to the general public. I maintain the code there only for those who already registered. Sorry.

Southpaw, thanks for testing the product. I forgot to add one of the existing plugins in. I'll fix it and reupload asap. My site is down right this second though.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by amykhar

I am no longer distributing that hack to the general public. I maintain the code there only for those who already registered. Sorry.

Southpaw, thanks for testing the product. I forgot to add one of the existing plugins in. I'll fix it and reupload asap. My site is down right this second though.

Thanks Amy! Take your time!

[amykhar]

I have to Our server is under a DOS attack and it seems to be taking the host a while to get back up. (Not my site - just the server it's on)

[amykhar]

ok. I updated the product again to include the missing plugin. I had never intended to re-release this and had put the code for one plugin in with another plugin. So, it got left out of the release.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Southpaw]

Tested and working on 3.5.3

Thanks again Amy!

[amykhar]

My pleasure.

[FalkinPro]

Quick Pro Quo

I uploaded the file onto my server, but no options are appearing under Forum Manager in MyAdmin.php. Can you load up a screenshot of what the option looks like under ur admin?

Thanks,

[amykhar]

It's just a forum setting. Here is a screenshot from mine, but I have other mods installed too.