Setting the forums as the frontpage

[leighlife]

Hi All, just converting from PHPNUKE to SMF and more importantly TP.

I wish I’d found TP months ago and would like to thank you all for the great work your doing.

I run a community website the focus of which is the forum, I do like to be concise and give people what they want up front, in this case the forums.

I am unable to find a way to set the whole forum as the frontpage, I’m sure it’s very easy but it’s driving me mad, can anyone help please?

Also can anyone recommend a picture gallery with TP/SMF integration?

[G6Cad]

just set all your foum content in the root of your domaindir.

i "by accident" set my install to that dir heheh from the start instead of a "forum" folder.

EX. www/g60.se/Themes/
to: www/g60.se/forum/Themes

But reverse in your case

Then i went to the admin panel/themes and layoutsettings/ from there, Themes and settings, Klick on the theme dirs and change the searchpath to the root instead of the FORUM folder.

it worked for me when i changed from ROOT to FORUM when i wanted the visitors to see the intro first.

[IchBin]

Currently you cannot set the forum as the front page. You can have posts from a certain board appear on the front page. There might be a work around for this, but I'm unable to find anything.

[leighlife]

Thank's to you both for that, I'm sure there must be a good reason for this not to be available.  I do however think that I'm not the only one who would find this useful and perhaps it could be part of the future development. 

As things stand I'll use what there is and be grateful for it, any ideas for the picture gallery though?

[IchBin]

The option to show the forum on the frontpage is on Bloc's todo list if I remember right. As for a gallery, Bloc is just coming along with the download module. Next I believe is some sort of a Shop mod. And then.... the gallery. As you can see, the gallery is quite far down the list. Unless Bloc has changed the order of his "Todo" list, this is the way I see it.

[Nokonium]

There is an easy workaround, with your bookmark. All you need to do is add action=forum after index.php? on your forum bookmark.

i.e. http://your-domain/index.php?action=forum

[leighlife]

Thanks, some good info and a neat idea, would still need something for the front page though for when users hit the home button but worth a go.

Hope it's not too long before I can help others in the same way.

[Rasyr]

Has anybody else have any ideas for this?

I have tried several things, and I was able to make the Forum Index the home page, unfortunately it also killed going into the forums themselves, and in some instances even the other options (like TPAdmin) hehe

What I tried so far was to add a new frontpage type (that was easy), and then add in an IF statement to the TPortal.php source file, so that if it was the new type, I would set $_REQUEST['action'] to forum or BoardIndex. In either case, I got the forums on the frontpage, but they were kinda stuck there.

Any helpful ideas would be appreciated....

One reason I would like this capability is that I currently have a set of Forums on one site, and want to move it over to using TP, and figured that I could hide the articles and such until I was ready to make the move. But I also wanted to be able to include the blocks on the left and such in the meantime.

[Xarcell]

Can't be done yet. Bloc has another post explaining why it wasn't a feature in .75. It causes a loop in some servers.

He is trying to work it out though.

[Xarcell]

http://www.tinyportal.net/smf/index.php?topic=1443.10