Can I have only one board? Just a list of topics...

[chat2joe]

Hey,

For the site I'm working on, I've no need for categories and multiple boards. All I want is to be in a single board by default and just have a list of topics.

Is this possible??

Joe

[sAce]

Of course

I Assume you already have the Board,

No just go to AdminCP > Current theme > Show recent post

In there enter the list number of topics you want to show.

[ARG01]

I am thinking that he may not want any category name to show, only board topics. But, I could be wrong. 

[Powerbob]

chat2joe is this now solved?

[chat2joe]

No just go to AdminCP > Current theme > Show recent post

I'm assuming this in 2.0 is Admin > Configuration > Current Theme > "Number of recent posts to display on board index:" .
I tried that but it just shows a list of recent posts at the start of the same forum structure.

I'll try explain better what I'm looking for.

From what I see the structure of the forum is Categories > Boards > Topics .
Rather than being 3 levels deep I only want 1 level deep: Topics. Can I have my forum only displaying the contents of one board? Hide or remove the upper levels?

Thanks!

[Tanks]

Somebody did this using htaccess to redirect users to the board so it looked like it was the frontpage of the forum.

don't ask me how it's done, i just remember reading about it

[chat2joe]

If you come across a link to that let me know! In the meantime I'm looking up SMF alternatives, something more basic...

[sawz]

in cpanel you can do a redirect. just put the url for the topic in there and your redirecting from the main page.


redirect from http://www.site.com/

redirect to http://www.site.com/index.php?board=19.0 or whatever the board number is.

[chat2joe]

cpanel? I've just got ftp access, no control panel, so I'm guessing you mean put a redirect in the template header of index.php .

The problem there would be pages such as Profile (index.php?action=profile) would also redirect to the board page?

[chat2joe]

OK I've got it working now! 

I put the following code into the header of the template:

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if(!isset($_GET['action']) && !isset($_GET['board']))
header( 'Location: ?board=1.0' );

So it will redirect if there's no "?action=" set and if "?board=" isn't already set (otherwise it'd loop).

Now I just need to remove the upper levels from the breadcrumb and I'm in business.
Page is here for those interested: hxxp:www.photosoc.nuigalway.ie/forum.php [nonactive]

[xenovanis]

chat2joe, I believe you'll need to look for the linktree in the file /Sources/Load.php. Here is where the multiple levels were created.

You might want to search this forum for 'modify linktree'; it has been asked before