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Forum Templates

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:58 pm
by mancitymike
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:23 pm
by feyd
  1. [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.
  2. Dreamweaver is not the editor to use for phpBB templates.
  3. I'm going to be blunt here: are we supposed to guess what you've done?

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:31 pm
by mancitymike
feyd wrote:
  1. [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.
  2. Dreamweaver is not the editor to use for phpBB templates.
  3. 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.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:39 pm
by jayshields
mancitymike wrote:What is the editor to use for templates.
Notepad?

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:44 pm
by mancitymike
jayshields wrote:
mancitymike wrote:What is the editor to use for templates.
Notepad?
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:51 pm
by mancitymike
hmm I think im a bit too noobish for in here :(

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:54 pm
by feyd
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:56 pm
by jayshields
mancitymike wrote:is there no way of doing it as a design view rather than have to use raw code.
Not that I know of. Some WYSIWYG editors support php templating syntax's such as Smarty, but you haven't mentioned what forum you're using and even if you did I doubt it uses Smarty or similar.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:57 pm
by mancitymike
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