Prepend Forum with website

[ColinJM]

OK thanks SOoL will give you a yell if I need to 

[Kindred]

You should also address questions about how tinyportal works in the thread or website dedicated to supporting tinyportal

[ColinJM]

You should also address questions about how tinyportal works in the thread or website dedicated to supporting tinyportal

Ah, fair enough - different forums have different rules - note this one's thanks Kindred 

[ColinJM]

You should also address questions about how tinyportal works in the thread or website dedicated to supporting tinyportal

Can you give me the link please Kindred

[Sir Osis of Liver]

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=27642.0

[Sir Osis of Liver]

If you set Admin > Frontpage to 'Go directly to forum index', login goes to forum index. If you disable all panels, it basically removes the portal altogether, then you can add back in what you want.

[ColinJM]

I'll keep going in here - because I'm not sure it's within tinyportals commit - what I want to do at the moment until I get a full handle on tiny portal is to go to a home page website when people log in.

Yes I do realise that ultimately, I should do this with tinypermit I think thepathing to my website for the time being is external tinypermit

[lurkalot]

In TinyPortal > Settings

How to redirect after login: Select either,

Redirect to forum.
Redirect to frontpage.

And Save.

On that same Settings page, you can hide the TinyPortal menu so it only shows to Admins, by checking the box next to, "Hide TinyPortal menu option"

And save.

You can basically make the portal as invisible as you want.

[ColinJM]

@lurkalot - out of respect for @Kindred ' s comment I'll quote and respond in the appropriate thread. 

[Kindred]

@ColinJM

You can't do both.
Honestly you can't do what you are asking for with the external website at all without some major reprogramming... and the way you have it currently set up with index.html in the same directory as index.php, using htaccess will also break things.

Get tinyportal working.
Tell your users to chill while the system is correctly built.
Otherwise you are tempting fate AND doing double work for no reason

[ColinJM]

@Kindred - point taken and appreciated.

[ColinJM]

1) The forum Home "button" goes to the URL of the Web Site I'm building which will be under the same domain

You can use this mod for that.

https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=4379

Thanks Doug that fixed the Home link in the forum - now goes to my website

[/quote]

@Doug Heffernan - I've implemented that but I want it to open the same browser tab not a new tab in the same browser session - what do I have to change?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

You can do that in Subs.php, look for "all the bottons".  That's the main menu buttons array. 

[Kindred]

The OPis using a mod for the home button



Colin, ask in the mod support thread

[ColinJM]

Thanks Kindred - will do. Flagged this as solved 

Ha! you beet me to it 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

The OPis using a mod for the home button

You don't need a mod for the home button, it's easier (and more instructive) to do it in Subs.php -

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            'home' => array(
                'title' => 'Home',
                'href' => 'https://www.yourwebsite.com',
                'show' => true,
                'sub_buttons' => array(
                ),
                'is_last' => $context['right_to_left'],
            ),


It's the "Give a man a fish...." thing.

[Doug Heffernan]

You don't need a mod for the home button, it's easier (and more instructive) to do it in Subs.php -

It's always best to avoid file edits as much as possible imo.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Well, I believe it's always best to avoid mods whenever possible, unless forum owner is a total noob.  Colin seems up to it.

[Kindred]

Well, since Colin already decided to go with the MOD, your point is moot, Sir Osis

Seriously though -- even when an admin makes edits -- it would be MUCH better to then package those edits as a mod for future reproduction if the site needs to get a reload ---  so Mods are better than direct edits!