03-12-09 03:43 PM - Post#80679    

After a good view months being live with FBB I've decided I don't need the portal. So today I thought I was being clever & set up the forum index as the main page via the admin panel & renamed 'Forums' to 'Home' & 'MAIN' to 'About us' & moved that button over to the right hand side of the nav bar. I've changed the language strings in common.php so these show correctly named in the breadcrumbs bar

BUT....
Is there way to make 'Forum Index' (aka Home) in the breadcrumbs the top level instead of 'Main Index'. I would be happy to lose 'Main Index' all together.

If not I will have to make the portal a basic 'Enter Here' page & create a custom 'About Us'

03-12-09 05:46 PM - Post#80680    

    In response to sb1963

in includes > common.php

Code:



 

        // Setup the breadcrumb links
        $this->breadcrumblist = "<span>" . $lang_str['BC_LOCATION'] . "</span>  ";
        if (!$this->meta_refresh || defined('NO_ONLINE')) {
            if(defined('IS_MAIN')) {
                $this->breadcrumblist .= $lang_str['MAIN_INDEX'];
            }
            else {
                //$this->breadcrumblist .= "<a href='{$conf['portal_url']}/index.php?$FBB_SESS'>{$lang_str['MAIN_INDEX']}</a> » ";
                if(defined('IS_INDEX')) {
                    $this->breadcrumblist = $lang_str['FORUM_INDEX'];
                }
                else {
                    $this->breadcrumblist .= "<a href='{$conf['full_url']}/".FORUM_INDEX."?$FBB_SESS'>{$lang_str['FORUM_INDEX']}</a>";
                }
            }
 

i commented out the one line and also removed the period from in front of the = $this->breadcrumblist .= $lang_str['FORUM_INDEX'];

Stephen Dolenski FileMaker 7 Certified Developer FileMaker 8 Certified Developer FM Forums.com Administrator

03-12-09 07:40 PM - Post#80683    

    In response to Stephen

Thankyou! Just the job!

Maybe worth a feature request to make the portal selectable by admin & thus the changes made by your common.php edit?


At a slight tangent - I'm amazed at the number of forums running FBB that run a default portal with default welcome particle box

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I know this is only viewable to guests but it looks naff & I think reflects poorly on FBB IMHO. Maybe a prompt for the admin to change this message during set-up?

03-13-09 03:08 PM - Post#80708    

    In response to sb1963

I am the opposite.

For a few years, I have had the "main" link redirect to the forum. I did this on a redirect in the cpanel on the server end. Now, I am looking to actually add a portal from page, but make it more "professional" looking, so the site entrance looks good.

I, like you, am amazed many people still have the welcome. I think admins forget because they are logged in all the time, so they do not see it.

Jason "Stix" Buckley Owner / Founder Stix Fx Entertainment www.stixfx.com