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[signovinces1 Friend signovinces1Join date: January 2009Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#137236

Hi. I just (3-4 weeks ago) started to use Joomla and im loving it! What im wondering about is how can i make a link in sanidine II template to my phpbb3 forum so that it loads just under the topmenu without using a wrapper? What i mean is that i want exactly like i have on my site right now but without a wrapper… i’m not good at html or such so coding isnt a very good idea.

Site that im using the template in is: http://www.hoi3.com

Appreciate any help!

[jwellman Friend jwellmanJoin date: April 2008Posts: 543Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 115 Thanked: 59 times in 21 posts]

#286992

You can view one of my sites by clicking here. Click the link at the top entitled forum. Is that what you are trying to do?

If so, go into your Menu Manager and create an “external link”. If you want it to open in a new window you will also have to set that property.

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#286993

may i ask why you dont want to use a wrapper?

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#286995

Too many scroll bars for me! I don’t like the wrapper.

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#286997

<em>@jwellman 106764 wrote:</em><blockquote>Too many scroll bars for me! I don’t like the wrapper.</blockquote>

What i usually do, remove phpbb’s header set the with so that they are no horizontal scrollbars.
And edit the wrapper.php so i can pass variables trough the wrapper, like link to specific topics inside the wrapper.

Just wanted to ask, as the poster mentioned he did not want to change alot of code. Place your normal joomla menu above your phpbb needs a bit of adjusting.

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#286998

<em>@jwellman 106761 wrote:</em><blockquote>You can view one of my sites by clicking here. Click the link at the top entitled forum. Is that what you are trying to do?

If so, go into your Menu Manager and create an “external link”. If you want it to open in a new window you will also have to set that property.</blockquote>

No no, i want the forum to open in the same browser window.. not a new one. I just found a site that has exactly what i want…

http://www.minidirectory.co.uk/phpBB3/

Exactly like that!

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#286999

<em>@bennitos 106766 wrote:</em><blockquote>What i usually do, remove phpbb’s header set the with so that they are no horizontal scrollbars.
And edit the wrapper.php so i can pass variables trough the wrapper, like link to specific topics inside the wrapper.

Just wanted to ask, as the poster mentioned he did not want to change alot of code. Place your normal joomla menu above your phpbb needs a bit of adjusting.</blockquote>

Thats what i also want to do. If i write an artcile i want to be able to link to a forum post and when someone clicks the link they are taken to that specific forum post and still have the menu up top etc.

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#287000

It looks like they’ve accomplished the same thing Bennitos suggested…which I’ve never done! Hopefully he will give you the advice to make it happen! As soon as I see the answer I’ll give it a whirl too. I like the example site you listed!

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#287001

A decent bridge for phpbb 3.x is still not really around but,

What i did on my site is, i changed the wrapper.php wich is standard in joomla so that it would accept variables that i can pass trough it.

Do the following:

1. Make a backup of the file /components/com_wrapper/wrapper.php
2. Open the file in an editor and go to line 35.
3. Search for this text: $url = $params->def( ‘url’, ” );
4. Insert the following block AFTER the line:

foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
if ($key<>”option” && $key<>”Itemid”) {
$url.=(strpos($url,”?”)) ? “&” : “?”;
$url.=”$key=$value”;
}
}
5. Save the file and test the solution in your browser.

This is for example a link to a special phpBB topic:


http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=110&t=3022


the corresponding URL in the Wrapper configuration is:


http://www.yourdomain.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php


the additional parameter “t” is passed to phpBB:


http://www.yourdomain.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3022


I use this so i can point to certain topics from my joomla installation and then it will open the topic inside the wrapper. Have been using this solution also to apply different stylesheets trough the wrapper and other things.

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#287002

If you also want to sync your joomla users with the phpbb then i use this component:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/bridges/authentication-bridges/3723/details

Make sure you read all the documentation and after it should work perfectly.

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#287003

So now you have:

A wrapper to phpbb where you can link to inside.

Your users are synced between joomla and phpbb

Now you only have to play with your phpbb style to make it match your site and maybe remove the header above it (as you already have your joomla menu above) but on customising phpbb themes and style you might be better off in the phpbb support forum.

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#287004

<em>@bennitos 106770 wrote:</em><blockquote>A decent bridge for phpbb 3.x is still not really around but,

What i did on my site is, i changed the wrapper.php wich is standard in joomla so that it would accept variables that i can pass trough it.

Do the following:

1. Make a backup of the file /components/com_wrapper/wrapper.php
2. Open the file in an editor and go to line 35.
3. Search for this text: $url = $params->def( ‘url’, ” );
4. Insert the following block AFTER the line:

foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
if ($key<>”option” && $key<>”Itemid”) {
$url.=(strpos($url,”?”)) ? “&” : “?”;
$url.=”$key=$value”;
}
}
5. Save the file and test the solution in your browser.

This is for example a link to a special phpBB topic:


http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=110&t=3022


the corresponding URL in the Wrapper configuration is:


http://www.yourdomain.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php


the additional parameter “t” is passed to phpBB:


http://www.yourdomain.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3022


I use this so i can point to certain topics from my joomla installation and then it will open the topic inside the wrapper. Have been using this solution also to apply different stylesheets trough the wrapper and other things.</blockquote>

Wow! Thanks a TON for your help. I cant say how happy and thankful i am right now haha. I have been searching everywhere for like 5 hours now without any kind of answer.

[bennitos Friend bennitosJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1717Downloads:0Uploads:39 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 474 times in 407 posts]

#287005

Glad i have been able to help.

Maybe in the future you wont be needing this anymore as people are working on a decent phpbb bridge. But it has been in development for ages now. And i think staying with phpbb 2.x (there is a good bridge for that one) isnt really an option.

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#287012

The extention i posted before JFusion, also has an option to integrate phpbb into joomla visually.

When i tried using that quite some time ago i didnt get it to work, but it seems to be fully supported now. If you get that to work then you wont need to use the wrapper.

Part of Jfusion documentation

Visual Integration
Another important aspect is that you want these softwares to look like they are running inside Joomla itself. We have a couple of options on how to achieve this: 1) direct link with template modifications of the external software, 2) the use of an iframe wrapper and 3) frameless visual integration that grabs the output of the external software and displays it inside your Joomla template. Which option you chose depends on how big your site is and how good you are in modifying html/css templates. For more information visit our documentation section.

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