Forum Templates
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mancitymike
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Forum Templates
Im a complete novice and have tried the php for dummies book but it hasnt helped. I have a preinstalled php forum. The thing is I cannot change the template so that I can get links and stuff on the same page as the forum everytime I change the template I get a syntax error. Im using dreamweaver 8 how can I change the template ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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- [url=http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=30037]Forum Rules[/url] Section 1.1 wrote:3. Do not make multiple, identical posts. This is viewed as spam and will be deleted.
- Dreamweaver is not the editor to use for phpBB templates.
- I'm going to be blunt here: are we supposed to guess what you've done?
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mancitymike
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feyd wrote:
[url=http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=30037]Forum Rules[/url] Section 1.1 wrote:3. Do not make multiple, identical posts. This is viewed as spam and will be deleted.- Dreamweaver is not the editor to use for phpBB templates.
- I'm going to be blunt here: are we supposed to guess what you've done?
I have edited the templates converted the tables to layers, moved them around and placed a new layer in with information. Converted back to frames and loaded the file back to the server. Obviously this is not the right way to do it as I have been trying for hours to get it to work.
What is the editor to use for templates.
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mancitymike
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is there no way of doing it as a design view rather than have to use raw code. I did courses on this stuff years ago, since alot has changed and my memories gone. All im after doing is placing a poll and a box with links in on the left hand side of the forum main page which is the standard phpBB one.jayshields wrote:Notepad?mancitymike wrote:What is the editor to use for templates.
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mancitymike
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mancitymike
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feyd wrote:poke around for the ezportal plugin for phpBB. Its got code for adding a poll to a page that you could pull out and use.
Thanks I will have a look for that still stuck on the formatting of the page templates though.
EDIT********** also if the link to the page is any help to anybody that might help me here it is http://www.mcfctalk.co.uk/forum
also in answer to Jay, im using dreamweaver 8