• Registered: 2005-02-01
  • Posts: 11

Topic: no index

hello,

I only want to have one forum - so I don't need the forum index site and the index link.
Can I hide them?

josp

  • From: U.S.A.
  • Registered: 2005-08-26
  • Posts: 1,607

Re: no index

Well, removing the index link should be easy - just remove the following from include/functions.php:

$links[] = '<li id="navindex"><a href="index.php">'.$lang_common['Index'].'</a>';

Now, I'm unsure as to what you would like to do - do you want to make the topic listing for your one topic the home page for your forum?

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  • From: Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-05-21
  • Posts: 2

Re: no index

Hi

I'd also like to do something like you describe.

The best way to explain is to show an example:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1

I've tried a few other forum solutions (I'm running PunBB under a wrapper in Joomla.) but most look like they will require serious core hacks to get the result I'm after & I'm no programmer...

I've not had PunBB working for long but it looks like it should be much easier to achieve this & accept that a couple of core hacks are probably inevitable.

I've started some initial tests by moving things around in main.tpl a bit but nothing seems to happen..

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Regards

Calum

  • From: U.S.A.
  • Registered: 2005-08-26
  • Posts: 1,607

Re: no index

I suppose you could rename viewforum.php to index.php, then define the forum id variable within the code for a workable, although certainly not graceful, solution.

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  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
  • Posts: 9,167

Re: no index

Problem with that is that there are scripts that link to viewforum.php. I would suggest a header redirect at the top of index.php.

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  • From: Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-05-21
  • Posts: 2

Re: no index

Sounds reasonable & with minimal messing around which is good.
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I'll give it a try.

Thanks.