miniportal issue

Miniportal mean leave index.php to another things like frontpage of your site, and make the main of your forum not index.php but forum.php, i see it is work.

you must create your own index.php with this code:

<?php

define('PUN_ROOT', './');
define('PUN_QUIET_VISIT', 1);
require PUN_ROOT.'include/common.php';

$page_title = pun_htmlspecialchars($pun_config['o_board_title']);
define('PUN_ALLOW_INDEX', 1);
require PUN_ROOT.'header.php';
require PUN_ROOT.'include/parser.php';

function pun_news($fid='', $show=15, $truncate=1)
{
    global $lang_common, $db, $pun_config, $db_prefix;
    $max_subject_length = 30;
    $show_max_topics = 50;
    $fid = intval($fid);
    $order_by = 't.posted';
    $forum_sql = '';
    // Was a forum ID supplied?
    if ( $fid ) $forum_sql = 'f.id='.$fid.' AND ';
    $show = intval($show);
    if ($show < 1 || $show > $show_max_topics)
    $show = 15;
    $saveddate="";
    // Fetch $show topics
    $result = $db->query('SELECT t.id, t.poster, t.subject, t.posted, t.last_post, f.id AS fid, f.forum_name FROM '.$db_prefix.'topics AS t INNER JOIN '.$db_prefix.'forums AS f ON t.forum_id=f.id WHERE f.id='.$fid.' AND t.moved_to IS NULL ORDER BY '.$order_by.' DESC') or error('Unable to fetch topic list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
    $show_count = 0;
    if ( !$db->num_rows($result) ) return $output;
    while ( ($show_count < $show) && ($cur_topic = $db->fetch_assoc($result)) ) {
        $temp = '';
        if ($pun_config['o_censoring'] == '1')
            $cur_topic['subject'] = censor_words($cur_topic['subject']);
        if (pun_strlen($cur_topic['subject']) > $max_subject_length)
            $subject_truncated = trim(substr($cur_topic['subject'], 0, ($max_subject_length-5))).' ...';
        else
            $subject_truncated = $cur_topic['subject'];
        $newsheading = '<a href="'.$pun_config['o_base_url'].'/viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id'].'&action=new" title="'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($subject_truncated).'</a> - <em>Posted by '.$cur_topic['poster'].' at '.date('h:i A', $cur_topic['posted']).'</em><br>';
        // Group posts by date   
        $thisdate = date('l, d F Y', $cur_topic['posted']);
        if ($thisdate != $saveddate)
        {
            if ($saveddate)
            {
                $temp .= "</div></div>";
            }
            $temp .= '<div class="block"><h2><span>'.$thisdate.'</span></h2><div class="box"><div class="inbox"><p>';
            $saveddate = $thisdate;
        }
        else {
            $temp .= '<div class="inbox"><p>';
        }
        $temp .= $newsheading.'</p><p>';
        $id = $cur_topic['id'];
        $msg = $db->query('SELECT id, poster, poster_id, poster_ip, poster_email, message, posted, edited, edited_by FROM '.$db_prefix.'posts WHERE topic_id='.$id.' LIMIT 1') or error('Unable to fetch post info', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
            if ( !$db->num_rows($msg) ) continue;
        $cur_post = $db->fetch_assoc($msg);
        // Display first paragraph only (comment out next four lines to turn off)
        if ($truncate == 1)
        {
        $paragraph = preg_split("/\s*\n+/", $cur_post['message']);
            if (isset($paragraph[1])) {
                $cur_post['message'] = $paragraph[0] . "...";
            }
        }
        $cur_post['message'] = parse_message($cur_post['message'], 0);
        $temp .= $cur_post['message'];
        $temp .= "</p></div>";
        if (isset($output)) {
            $output .= $temp;
        }
        else {
            $output = $temp;
        }
        ++$show_count;
    } // end of while
    $output .= "</div></div>";
    return $output;
}
?>
        <div class="block">
            <h2><span>Welcome</span></h2>
            <div class="box">
                <div class="inbox">
                    <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent augue. Nulla facilisi. Fusce bibendum accumsan erat. Quisque sollicitudin mattis neque. Sed dapibus. Integer a lectus eu sem consequat pellentesque. Morbi rhoncus nulla. Duis adipiscing interdum velit. Fusce ante. Ut vitae enim sit amet magna sodales hendrerit. In sed tortor at sapien convallis eleifend. Proin mauris. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut metus. Cras ac arcu et arcu porttitor blandit. Nam vitae lectus eget mauris sollicitudin placerat. Suspendisse vestibulum. Donec varius libero. Duis velit tellus, euismod vitae, consequat sed, consectetuer ut, purus.
                    </p>
                    <p>
                    Praesent viverra venenatis magna. Etiam in dolor. Ut in justo ac nibh malesuada cursus. Duis urna arcu, aliquam vitae, consequat nec, tincidunt non, mi. Nunc lobortis. Nunc pharetra. Sed porttitor. Maecenas turpis tortor, blandit nec, dignissim in, porttitor eu, odio. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Suspendisse augue odio, ornare a, elementum ac, tincidunt varius, orci. Nulla libero ante, hendrerit ac, consectetuer eu, sollicitudin et, eros. Duis sapien. Suspendisse ornare enim sit amet dui. Donec ullamcorper diam.
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
<?php
echo pun_news(1, 5, 0);

require PUN_ROOT.'footer.php';

Ludo,

Down in

<?php
echo pun_news(1, 5, 0);

require PUN_ROOT.'footer.php';

try

<?php
echo pun_news(*FID*, *TOPICS*, *TRUNCATE*);

require PUN_ROOT.'footer.php';

instead, where *FID* is the forum ID, *TOPICS* is the # of topics to display, and *TRUNCATE* is either 0 (don't truncate) or 1 (do truncate). At least, I think.

could you try turning on debug mode in common.php?

If anyone has any idea why the text isn't showing up, I'd appreciate any help

I appreciate you trying. I'm new to php, but this just doesnt seem right...

I made index.php just with that small amount of code like you suggested. It still does the same thing as before, just a blank page.

But (i'm using gedit) when I edit the code it s all color coded. But this part is all green, just doesnt seem right. I think it may be as simple as some typo in the code?? the following is all thats the same color.

?>
        <div class="block">
            <h2><span>Welcome</span></h2>
            <div class="box">
                <div class="inbox">
                    <p>
                    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent augue. Nulla facilisi. Fusce bibendum accumsan erat. Quisque sollicitudin mattis neque. Sed dapibus. Integer a lectus eu sem consequat pellentesque. Morbi rhoncus nulla. Duis adipiscing interdum velit. Fusce ante. Ut vitae enim sit amet magna sodales hendrerit. In sed tortor at sapien convallis eleifend. Proin mauris. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Ut metus. Cras ac arcu et arcu porttitor blandit. Nam vitae lectus eget mauris sollicitudin placerat. Suspendisse vestibulum. Donec varius libero. Duis velit tellus, euismod vitae, consequat sed, consectetuer ut, purus.
                    </p>
                    <p>
                    Praesent viverra venenatis magna. Etiam in dolor. Ut in justo ac nibh malesuada cursus. Duis urna arcu, aliquam vitae, consequat nec, tincidunt non, mi. Nunc lobortis. Nunc pharetra. Sed porttitor. Maecenas turpis tortor, blandit nec, dignissim in, porttitor eu, odio. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Suspendisse augue odio, ornare a, elementum ac, tincidunt varius, orci. Nulla libero ante, hendrerit ac, consectetuer eu, sollicitudin et, eros. Duis sapien. Suspendisse ornare enim sit amet dui. Donec ullamcorper diam.
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
<?php

first I want to say I am retarded. Second I want to say that while punbb is a great forum solution, what makes it really stand out is these particular forums, and how quickly everyone trys to help people. I thank you all for that.

Now, for the solution to my problem, I am ashamed to admit, it was a permissions problem on index.php