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Disabling the Forum part of SMF

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AngelinaBelle:
You can hide boards on the board index, as some blog mods do.
And you can use them only to feed content to the blogs or the portal.

And then you can take the link to the board index off the menu.

And you would have some kind of CMS-like thing with a portal page, some custom pages (which come with the portal) and maybe a blog or two.

smCore will probably have bits included to encourage someone to write a simple CMS, but but SMF was not designed with this in mind.
The Simple Machines Forum is designed to be a forum. So I would be surprised if any future version of SMF will be designed with the notion of turning the forum into not-a-forum.

Devicon:
I really don't understand what you would accomplish by doing this?

spottedhog:
If the OP were wanting to use SMF for membership and theming, I could see that.  Then on the front end they could do nearly everything they wanted to do, including permission based access to various pages or page areas.

I created a CMS with SMF fully integrated into it (former PHP Nuke code), and it uses SMF for membership and themes.

Example: http://tpsites.us

...and with SSI.php and the new $context['html_headers'] variable I can install any theme right out of the box and do not need to make any theme modifications. I use $context['html_headers'] to include CSS and any javascript files.  And since SSI.php is included, I can use the $context variable wherever it is needed and any SSI.php functions.

Like it or not, you guys created SMF so it can be integrated into other php coded applications with fairly easy coding methods.  So sure, why not use SMF for members, permissions, themes, and also a banning system.  Plus, it can be used for MemberGroups access and the Subscription system.  SMF coding can be used for more than just Forum boards.

Yoshi:
I built my website with SMF -- http://map3cms.co.cc/

What I did was create a custom "bootloader" like the one SMF has (the ?action= one) and bult upon that (this page is built upon that boot loader). You can disable the forum part with that if you like (it will require some hacking but not that difficult).

Though if you're a non-coder that will not be of any use to you.

Arantor:
I've actually built structures that do just this - they ditch the forum stuff and that allows for a helpdesk that can be integrated to other systems, with a lot of theming potential.

But as I noted, it's a LOT of work and the amount of use it has is fairly limited in the scope of SMF as it stands.

The future of SMF is in smCore which is more modular and works pretty much as expected - permissions, members in a central core with everything as modules on top like the forum. But to disable the forum part of a forum software is a massive amount of work, not to mention mostly pointless.

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