Burr
02-17-2007, 02:51 PM
Hi.
I used InvisionBoard back when it was free. They also had an SSI.php.. a user friendly way to insert stuff into your HTML documents. For example, with the SMF forums I'm using now, inserting <?php ssi_boardNews(); ?> would pull the latest 5 topics out of my News forum and put them where that code is, on the front page of my website.
So here's what I'm trying to do, and if there's a user-friendly way like this, I'd also be willing to switch to phpBB. Our current website is located at http://www.teamaddiction.net. As you can see, from the message board, I have inserted the latest 5 news posts and latest 5 forum topics onto the main page. What I would also like to do now are the two following things:
1) The login thing on the right sidebar is more or less a redirection link. After logging in, I'd like it to just stay on the current page and display other things overtop of it on the right sidebar instead (i.e. Edit Profile, View Profile, My Controls, My Avatar, etc..).
2) Having a message board makes it look like two separate websites. Can I insert my forums inside of the main body of my website? This website http://www.complexityclan.com has their forums right inside their layout - http://www.complexityclan.com/forums/index.php. This is what I'd like to happen.
If you can make those happen in SMF.. what I'm using right now.. great. I'd like to switch to phpBB anyways but only if I'm able to do the other things that I already having going .. news posts, ect.
And like I said, I can insert lines of PHP, but I'm not really familiar with it. The only code I have ever really used is in this following code template:
<?php
require("smf/SSI.php");
include('header.inc');
if(!$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) { ?>
HTML code for front page here....
<?php ssi_boardNews(); ?> // inserts my news for me.
<? } elseif ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == "page2") { ?>
HTML code for page2 here...
<? }
include('footer.inc'); ?>
Thanks.
I used InvisionBoard back when it was free. They also had an SSI.php.. a user friendly way to insert stuff into your HTML documents. For example, with the SMF forums I'm using now, inserting <?php ssi_boardNews(); ?> would pull the latest 5 topics out of my News forum and put them where that code is, on the front page of my website.
So here's what I'm trying to do, and if there's a user-friendly way like this, I'd also be willing to switch to phpBB. Our current website is located at http://www.teamaddiction.net. As you can see, from the message board, I have inserted the latest 5 news posts and latest 5 forum topics onto the main page. What I would also like to do now are the two following things:
1) The login thing on the right sidebar is more or less a redirection link. After logging in, I'd like it to just stay on the current page and display other things overtop of it on the right sidebar instead (i.e. Edit Profile, View Profile, My Controls, My Avatar, etc..).
2) Having a message board makes it look like two separate websites. Can I insert my forums inside of the main body of my website? This website http://www.complexityclan.com has their forums right inside their layout - http://www.complexityclan.com/forums/index.php. This is what I'd like to happen.
If you can make those happen in SMF.. what I'm using right now.. great. I'd like to switch to phpBB anyways but only if I'm able to do the other things that I already having going .. news posts, ect.
And like I said, I can insert lines of PHP, but I'm not really familiar with it. The only code I have ever really used is in this following code template:
<?php
require("smf/SSI.php");
include('header.inc');
if(!$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) { ?>
HTML code for front page here....
<?php ssi_boardNews(); ?> // inserts my news for me.
<? } elseif ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == "page2") { ?>
HTML code for page2 here...
<? }
include('footer.inc'); ?>
Thanks.