Adding page within the SMF system?

[RaalF]

Help, I like the way my SMF Forum has been setup and everything has been working.
I want a new Forum Page created within the SMF system, I mean - I want to have
"home", "help", "search", "Admin", "Profile", etc and still have my personal HTML.

Thanks!

[N3RVE]

Hi s_m_f,
With SMF's unique SSI function, this won't be a problem.
Create two new php files, `header.php` & `footer.php`.

Copy and Paste the following code into the newly created 'header.php' file.

Change $ssi_theme = 1; to your actual theme ID.
For SMF Core Default, use 1, For Classic YaBB Se, use 2. Babylon = 3 and so on.
If a wrong value is used, SSI automatically uses the overall Forum default.
Therefore, Line 4 - 5 can be skipped.

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<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Which Theme are we using?
$ssi_theme = 1;
// Layers to be utilized
$ssi_layers = array('main');
// Change "true" to "false" to disable Gzip if not supported on your server
$ssi_gzip = true;
//This is the SSI.php file in the Board dir.
require('SSI.php');

?>

That's all for the header
*******************

Let's have this code  in `footer.php`

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<?php
//Let's murder SSI for now
ssi_shutdown();
//[n3rve] thinks this should do.
?>

Thats all for the footer.

Now create a new php file. (let's use test.php)
We'll use this;

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<?php 
//Require header.php
require('header.php'); 
?>

<br />
<b>
<marquee><font size="10">What would Gaz, ooops! Gary do if The Simpsons were no more?</font></marquee>
<br /><font size="5">-[n3rve]</font>
</b><br />

<?php 
//Require Footer,php
require('footer.php'); 
?>


That's simple and straight forward I guess.
Have all three files stored in the Board dir.
And point your browser to http://your-forum-url.com/test.php
You can rename test.php and set things up the way you want

[RaalF]

  n3rve  Thank You SO MUCH for the fast reply . . . .

I just copied your code into the files respectively, and tested it on my local forum,
Everything worked like magic

LOL, who is Gaz? or Gary?

[N3RVE]

Glad it worked

LOL, who is Gaz? or Gary?

Dark Gazmanafc He is an SMF team member, a Customizer.
The Greatest Simpsons Fan I've ever known.

-[n3rve]

[popomovies]

Do i add this to themes folder?

[N3RVE]

Create two new PHP files, 3 actually

• header.php
• footer.php
• test.php

Put this into header.php

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<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Which Theme are we using?
$ssi_theme = 1;
// Layers to be utilized
$ssi_layers = array('main');
// Change "true" to "false" to disable Gzip if not supported on your server
$ssi_gzip = true;
//This is the SSI.php file in the Board dir.
require('SSI.php');

?>


Put this into footer.php

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<?php
//Let's murder SSI for now
ssi_shutdown();
//[n3rve] thinks this should do.
?>


In the test.php put

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<?php 
//Require header.php
require('header.php'); 
?>

<br />
<b>
<marquee><font size="10">What would Gaz, ooops! Gary do if The Simpsons were no more?</font></marquee>
<br /><font size="5">-[n3rve]</font>
</b><br />

<?php 
//Require Footer,php
require('footer.php'); 
?>


Do i add this to themes folder?

$boarddir: Have all three files stored in the Board dir.

-[n3rve]

[[SiNaN]]

This mod could also help: Custom Action Mod.

[N3RVE]

This mod could also help: Custom Action Mod.

Tested the mod
Indeed, that would serve right - You can even select the content's coding language. BBC, PHP or HTML.
Nice mod

-[n3rve]

[SNAFU0185]

ok it didnt work i got the following

Unable to load the 'main_above' template.

what did i do wrong maybe it doesnt work with smf 2

[N3RVE]

You should reverse the changes. Those instructions are for 1.1.x
How about installing the mod? It should work with 2.x or I can rewrite the guide to work with 2.0.

-[n3rve]

[[SiNaN]]

This edit will make it work with SMF 2.0:

header.php
Find:
array('main');
Replace:
array('html', 'body');

[hetrp]

Can we add button on top for this test page where it says "home" "admin" "profile" ?

If this is possible please let me know how to do it ?

[[SiNaN]]

How do you add custom tabs to the Core (default) theme menu?

[SNAFU0185]

thanks guys it doesnt work on my old theme but on the new theme for the new site it works many thanks again
well im at it which smf file do i edit and where to alter buttons displayed

[Arantor]

To alter buttons being displayed is the theme's index.template.php file.

[SNAFU0185]

To alter buttons being displayed is the theme's index.template.php file.

where in that file as i thought it was in the subs.php
And is there a way to display the Forum - Info Center  in the page using [n3rve]s method  just like it is in the forum as ssi displays it quite diferently
ie
Recent Posts
Forum Stats
Users Online

Many thanks in advance

[massillon]

Ok, I did this to add a custom page to my SMF...  unfortunately it does not appear to play well with tinyportal.

this is what I get...

http://www.massillon.com/template.php

any ideas?

[Arantor]

So how did you do it?

[massillon]

So how did you do it?

I used the coding above, but I still get the errors you can see on my link.

[1MileCrash]

You don't need to create all of those extra header and footer files..

Here you go..

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<?php

$ssi_theme = 1;
$ssi_layers = array('main');
require_once('SSI.php');

?>

Your html here

<?php

ssi_shutdown();

?>

Just that single file along will give you a page with SMF and "your html here" written where the content usually goes.