• Registered: 2007-06-30
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Topic: What could be easier?

I'm building a new hobby website just for fun and I wanted a forum, but I dreaded diving into that task. I was going to write my forum from scratch, but then I stumbled across PunBB. It took me two hours from download to working forum, including my own custom skin to match the rest of my site! I couldn't be happier.

The site hasn't launched yet so there's no traffic yet (except my mom and my kids and grandkids) so there are no posts, but even the empty forum sure looks nice!

Next I need to figure out how to get some forum info like newest post, etc. into my main page header sidebar.

Thanks to the dev team for a slick and easy forum script.
 
--gary ( shameless plug: http://howto.fiziwig.com/ )

  • quaker
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Re: What could be easier?

open the extern.php and read that. there alot that you can do with that one file.
that is a start another thing search for how to add templates to punbb so that you can do something like latest topics on the index or even create a whole new index page to sorta what you got now...

this is what i have started and with the help of others!
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=97476#p97476

Drop me an email if ya need help!
Q

My stuff or my style might sux, but atleast I'm willing to help when I can.
Don't be stupid and help ! We are the stupid one's !!!

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  • Registered: 2007-06-30
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Re: What could be easier?

Thanks for that pointer to extern.php. I had no trouble figuring out how to use it. The only tricky part was that I had put the forum tables into a different database from my main site database so I had to re-select my own database right after the include so that the rest of my page script would work properly.

Now I have the most recent posts on the front page sidebar. Of course there aren't any recent posts yet because there aren't any visitors yet. But the site is only a couple days old. smile

--gary
http://howto.fiziwig.com

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Re: What could be easier?

very nice integration.

~James
FluxBB - Less is more
  • quaker
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Re: What could be easier?

your index is that a cms or custom php?
Q

My stuff or my style might sux, but atleast I'm willing to help when I can.
Don't be stupid and help ! We are the stupid one's !!!

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  • Registered: 2007-06-30
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Re: What could be easier?

Quaker,

The site is all custom php. It took me about 4 days to write and debug, but then I do php for a living, so I've had loads of practice.

--gary