Forum Board Category Problem

[pokedwhenever]

I've just installed SMF and I'm a bit of a noob about this kind of stuff. I'm sorry if the fix is extremely simple.

I used a domain hosting site to set up the initial boards, but now I actually want to start modifying them. When I go into Admin>Forums>Modify, I don't see any boards for me to modify. I think it is because my initial boards were not under a category and therefore do not show up under modify.

My site is named playmaf. com.

As you can see, I made a category for general manually, but I have no way of deleting the other boards I have created.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ApplianceJunk]

What version of SMF are you using?

Edited to add: I see it's 2.0.2
That's odd. I can't recreate the problem. I wonder if it has anything to do with your theme.
Even with a fresh install of SMF when you create a board you already have the General Category, so I don't see how you can create a new board and not put it in a category.

[pokedwhenever]

What version of SMF are you using?

2.0.2, I think.

[ApplianceJunk]

I should have seen that, sorry.
I edited my post above.

[Colin]

Do you have access to the database? (PHPmyadmin in cPanel).

If you do we can see where those boards are coming from and possibly modify them directly from the database.

[pokedwhenever]

Do you have access to the database? (PHPmyadmin in cPanel).

If you do we can see where those boards are coming from and possibly modify them directly from the database.

I'm not sure? How would I gain access to the database?

[Colin]

Who are you hosted with?

[pokedwhenever]

http://www.siteground.com/ [nofollow]

[pokedwhenever]

Basically, when I signed up with them, they offered to install SMF for me and asked if I wanted them to set up the boards for me. I answered yes, and the site prompted me with a box to add boards to the site. I just added a few random ones because I assumed I could modify them later.

Now, I realize I can't

[Colin]

Yep, sorry to ask that, just checked the whois record anyways. Site ground runs cPanel so log into your account and select phpmyadmin inside of cPanel. Select your SMF database. Then select smf_boards table and take note of what data is in there.

[Colin]

I think I see an issue. One of the boards doesn't seem to have a name. Once you pull up your boards table let me know. We can add a name to it and that might resolve the issue of it not showing up in the back end of SMF.

[pokedwhenever]

Here you are.
http://postimage.org/image/okb8u6zbl/ [nofollow]

I'm not sure what to do, lol.

[pokedwhenever]

NVM, Thanks a lot Colin. I figured it out. You're the man.

[ApplianceJunk]

Care to share with us just what you did to solve your problem?

[pokedwhenever]

Care to share with us just what you did to solve your problem?

I just deleted all the boards by selecting them in phpMyAdmin and clicking that 'x' at the bottom. I'm gonna make new ones, so I don't need those old ones anyway. Those were only made for testing purposes.

[Colin]

Glad I could help. Be sure to stop by again if you have another question or just want to say Hi! Have a great day.