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  • dcb
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Topic: How to have topics display from main forum in index.php?

I installed my forum in the /forum directory and it loads fine. I created one category and one forum that goes to /forum/viewforum.php?id=2

But I'm only going to have one forum, so I'd like the default forum topics to view when anyone loads up my forum, instead of having to click the forum name to view topics. So basically i want the topics from the default forum to show up in /forum instead of /forum/viewforum.php?id=2. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

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Re: How to have topics display from main forum in index.php?

open the extern.php and read the beginning information.

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Re: How to have topics display from main forum in index.php?

I don't know if this is really the solution because extern just gives unformatted text. I'm talking about the forum listing of fid #2 to show up in the main index.

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Re: How to have topics display from main forum in index.php?

ok then look at a mod for punbb called punbb news
i have took that mod and integrated into a few sites.
um....
a good mod is called punbb_frontpage mod.

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Re: How to have topics display from main forum in index.php?

Could you use mod_rewrite to send ?/forums? to viewforum.php?

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Re: How to have topics display from main forum in index.php?

Guardian: I don't see why not!
That would be very easy. I'll try it out.

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Re: How to have topics display from main forum in index.php?

Done and done:

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$  viewforum.php?id=2  [R]