Phpbb help, please

[jyfan]

hey everyone

i know this sounds like a noob question... but how can i, in phpbb, have a "forum" inside a category, like usual. but the thing is, i want it so that when i click on it, it redirects to another URL.

please help me out on this

thanks.

 

[luxinterior]

I've never done it but I guess you could just open up the database in phpadmin (if you have cpanel) and change the link there. Should work ok I think.

Lux

 

[jyfan]

thanks, luxinterior... but i don't know how to use phpmyadmin.. its very confusing for me.

is there an easier way that i could do this from the phpbb administration panel?

 

[luxinterior]

It doesn't look like there's anywhere to set paths in phpbb admin and to be honest it makes sesne their shouldn't be. The don't want to make it too easy for people to break it If you want to PM me I'll try and take a look at it for you.

Lux

 

[luxinterior]

Actually i've just looked at the database and it doesn't direct by path it uses id numbers so I think your pretty much going to be stuffed. I guess you could write some php that could look for the specific ID number of the forum and redirect but that's not my field (or atleast it would take me a while to figure it out). If there's any PHP guys on here or maybe a friend of yours they could do it for sure.

Good luck

Lux

 

[luxinterior]

I guess it's easier than I thought.

Put this at the top of your viewforum.php just under the comments

//check forum id for redirect
$forumID = $_REQUEST['f'];
if ($forumID==4)
{header("Location: http://www.yahoo.com");
}
//end of check id

You'll need to use the correct ID and change the redirect but this works.

Lux

 

[Martin Crepaz]

Have you been to phpbbhacks.com and got a hack.

Not sure if you are looking for sub forums but there is a hack on their for that.

martin

 

[jyfan]

thanks very much all for your help

its been done now, thanks to one of my friends