extra page in the forum

[simplebeer]

I want a page on the forum which is hidden but were i can link to in a message.
I want the page exactly like the index page but without the boards and instead a page with text

Does anyone know what to do?

I thought it was possible by copy the index.php and call it index2.php and make some changes in it, but it seems like it's more difficult.
After that i thought maybe i can use for example the help page, change this, rename it in whatever i want and use it, but i found out the text which i can read at the help page is not in the Help.template.php....

I can make a exact samen page in html of course but i think it's nicer te do it the way i say up here...

Someone help me?

Greetz

[Illori]

maybe something like http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=331 would work for you?

[Kindred]

most certainly, you can **NOT** just "copy index.php as index2.php
that will never, ever work.

script files are not the same as html files. You can't just copy it as a different name and have a new page.

You should look at
1- portal mods (5 of them)
2- extra page mods (4+ of them)
3-custom action mod

[Bloc]

Some themes used the wrap - action method of adding specific theme pages - I did a few of those before - but don't think any theme use that now. I always liked that "hack" even if it only worked in a particular theme.

But as Kindred mentions, using a page/article/portal mod will be faster.

[simplebeer]

Thanks @all!

The one Illori says works great for me!