Ok so, if you read the old version of this page you either laughed then or will laugh now. I learned a little php and somehow seemed to forget everything I knew about html. Or at least the hypertext part of it, heh... so here is a method to insert SMF as a page.. Its not terribly pretty but it works.. Also you might note I'm using SMF 2.0 beta, so where in the index.php might be different. Just make sure all the loadXXX(); statements are done and pray if you older version is different
Change directories as you see fit....
1) Install eve dev to /kb
2) Install smf forums to /forums
3) Configure KB to your style, since we aren't using a mod the forum page wont dynamically change but there will be some accidental cross styling; play with it.
5) Using your browser, open your killboards main site, and 'View Source' on your browser
6) Copy everything above the </table> that ends <table class="navigation" width="100%" height="25" border="0" cellspacing="1"> (including obviously the </table> line) and paste it into your favorite text editor.
7) Search and replace all " with ' (double quotes need to be single for php). Then add echo " before it all, and "; after it all.
8) In SMF's index.php, paste the contents into the source after the section reading:
Code:
// Check if compressed output is enabled, supported, and not already being done.
if (!empty($modSettings['enableCompressedOutput']) && !headers_sent() && ob_get_length() == 0)
{
// If zlib is being used, turn off output compression.
if (@ini_get('zlib.output_compression') == '1' || @ini_get('output_handler') == 'ob_gzhandler' || @version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '4.2.0') == -1)
$modSettings['enableCompressedOutput'] = '0';
else
ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
}
9) Change all the ?a=site refferences to ../kb/index.php?a=site in the smf index.php so the links work
You now have visually integrated forums! Haven't tested much, but at least we dont have to deal with slow arse iframes now...
Styling is a bit of a headache you'll find, as SMF's style overrides EDK's, As an experiment I pasted the contents from the EDK file to the end of the SMF style.css, and its an improvement but still very flawed. If you use this method and get a nice style, be a pal and post it for the masses (and me!).. Any problems feel free to ask..
Thanks pdawg81 for re-enforcing the iframes suck and are slow line of reasoning... as for inserting eve-dev into smf, your on your own, because I think this looks nicer this way and I dont know jack about xml, heh
- Mugen
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