Where's the forum link

[midnight251]

I have just installed the phpBB 2, on Dolphin 5.5, and everything seemed to go well. I can't seem to find out how to get to the admin panel for phpBB, and there is no link to the forums when a user login in. Where is the link supposed to show up? and how do I get to the admin panel.

Edit: Ok, I got into the admin control panel , I just can't get the link to the forum into Dolphin 5.5.

Here are the steps I used to install the forum (from another post):

1.DL the latest build of PHPBB, upload it to Your /forum folder
read the instructions of PHPBB to install it.
2.Use Dolphins database to make it work properly,
do not use a seperate database.
(take a full backup of Your database aviod making mistakes)

3.Login to admin panel, click on "manage modules" link

4.Browse and locate phpbb.aemod in Your local
MODULES folder in Dolphin.

5.Upload it to server.

6.Once You get the "Module Uploaded" (or sometin similar) message from dolphin, click to compare Your database (Compare databases)
You'll see all Your exsiting members as a list once this is done.

7.Click refresh button (the first one on the top)

You should be done like this. And thats how I did it.

There are some suggestions about tables prefix names in this forum.
Please consider reading them too. I dont remember where its located, sorry.

Hope it goes well


Thanks

Midnight

[midnight251]

I take it that the link is supposed to show up in the members control panel. I have applied the phpbb.aemod, and everything is good. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Smoge]

The modules do not add links to the site - if you want links for a module in a template that does not support them - you will need to add the link manually.

Smoge

[midnight251]

Thanks for the reply Smoge, I will attempt to add the link.

Great site by the way.

Midnight

[midnight251]

Ok, I'm at a loss. Smoge, I have searched through the forums, and all I could find for a solution was that you would have to add the link to the forums manually. That's great, but I could not find out how to actually do this, what files to mod etc. I'm sure it's only a few lines of code, but being green to PHP, learning as I go, I'm stumped on this one. I'm sure I have added the forum package correctly, and some of the posts say that the forum link should be added automatically, but I'm going with what you say.

In the member menu in the control panel, the "forum" is showing with the link aemodule.php?ModuleType=forum.

If you, or anyone else could tell me how to add the link manually to the user control panel, that would be great, as this is the last thing I have to do before beta testing.

I really need some help on this....

Thanks

Mike

[elusuario]

Hi, when I was using Dolphin 5.3 you could add links to the member menu manually at templates/specifictemplate/scripts/menu_design.php

In 5.5 I don't really know, since I didn't use it.

In 5.6.0002 which is what I'm customizing now, it seems that you edit the member menu and the visitor menu at the admin panel at the "member menu" section (this suggests me that changes to them are done at the database now and not at any file, just a thought).

Take care.

[Smoge]

Correct.... the menus in later versions of Dolphin have been moved from being built from code in an include file, to being built from entries in the database.

Smoge

[midnight251]

Thanks guys, I'll give it another shot. I'm real close at getting this thing up and running.

[midnight251]

Ok guys, I've been at this for hours now. I do appreciate your responses to my problem, but they are very vague could you elaborate please. I am attaching a screen shot of my member menu where the forum link should appear (possibly under the "My Profile" link (heck put it anywhere, I'll be happy). How exactly do I get a "Forum" link in there so that when the user clicks on it, it takes them to the phpBB forums. I'm sure I have installed phpBB correctly. The only thing I have left to do is install the registration stopper. I'm sorry if this seems trivial to you guys, but it means the world to me (and not for the lack of trying).

Thanks again for the help.

[midnight251]

Well, after many hours, I finally got the link to the forums. It does not appear in the members control panel, but as a top menu item. I added this line to menu_design.php in the /templates/temp_dfl/scripts folder:

$ret .= TopCodeMenuItem( '_Forum', 'aemodule.php?ModuleType=forum', $site['url'] );

This put the forum link at the top of the page. Great !!!! The only thing I have to do now is put in the registration stopper, which I'm about to do now. According to the phpBB site, I will have to install Easymod to put the registration stopper in. This should not be a problem. The only issue that I've encountered, is when the user clicks on the forum link and gets into the forums, how does the user get back to the Dolphin site from the forums. I have only looked at this briefly, but I did not see anything to get out of the forums and back to the site. I will be working on this tonight, but any info on this would be appreciated.

Thanks again

Midnight