How to make a external page with keeping the TP stuff - For TP 1

[Dragooon]

A Quick guide by me on how to make a external page outside of TP but keeping TP's blocks
Example - http://gforumx.com being page and http://forum.gforumx.com being my forum with TP/SMF(TP v1).

To start with in a php file add

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<?php
// ID of the theme
$ssi_theme = 1;

// Exact path to SSI.php
require_once('SSI.php');

global $context;

TPortal_init();

// Your page Title
$context['page_title'] = 'Demo Page';

template_main_above();
template_tp_above();

// Here comes all your contents
echo 'SMF/TP Rules baby!';

// And this ends stuff
ssi_shutdown();
?>
Several things are commented, make sure to set the exact path to SSI so that it works correctly.

All your content are added after template_tp_above(); and before ssi_shutdown();

Some more stuff, Would you like to hide some bars?
So here are the ways
The function to hide a TP Panel(Or say bar) is
tp_hidebars('the side');
Its various valid values are:
'all', 'center', 'top', 'left', 'right', 'bottom', 'lower'.
This function has to be added before the function template_main_above
A Example which hides center and right bars

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<?php
// ID of the theme
$ssi_theme = 1;

// Exact path to SSI.php
require_once('SSI.php');

global $context;

TPortal_init();

// Your page Title
$context['page_title'] = 'Demo Page';
// Hide the bars
tp_hidebars('center');
tp_hidebars('right');

template_main_above();
template_tp_above();

// Here comes all your contents
echo 'SMF/TP Rules baby!';

// And this ends stuff
ssi_shutdown();
?>
What can this be used for? Well for integrations and making page outside SMF/TP.

This only works for TP 1 not for TP 0.9.8.
For a guide for TP 0.9.8 see :
http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=20069.0

You can ask any question here.

Thanks

[G6Cad]

Your beeing buissy Dragooon   Gret work done  :up:

[IchBin]

You do realize there is a blank page option in TP 1.0 ? Unless I'm not getting the significance of this... lol

[Dragooon]

There is?
And this is for files completely outside of SMF lol.

[IchBin]

Yes, when creating an article just make it an external type if I remember right. This gives you the "files outside of SMF" feel. Which is why I suggested it. But this is cool anyway. Thanks for figuring it out.

[Crip]

it's like having WP blog in an Iframe within an Article which is a very cool tool..

  I made a rhyme

[bloc]

Yes, the "import article" can simply fetch external files..but I think this way the actual adress will be outside(or can be) the forum folder.

Great for those that like to have frontpage - or splash page - on root, while forum in a folder.

Excellent guide :up:

[Dragooon]

Yup, the actual files can be outside the forum folder itself.

Thank you for your comments and I added the way to hide specific bars in the guide.

[Crip]

I think I'll try making a splash page leading to
my forum with your code -- if it screws up my
forum at all look out Goony.

[Dragooon]

There is no way it can screw a forum because it doesn't alter a forum file but I'll find a hideout anyway