make home page 'the forum' thread ticker

[remmylabeau]

Technical Details

Forum version : #phpBB2
Position : Founder
Concerned browser(s) : Mozilla Firefox
Who the problem concerns : All members
Forum link : http://gambit.forumotion.com

Description of problem

I'd like to be able to have my home page,
gambit.forumotion.com be where http://gambit.forumotion.com/f1-take-a-gambit-enter-here
is right now, do you see?

I don't want more than one page, for them

I don't need any subforums,

so I'd like to make the forum ticker my main page?

Please help

[remmylabeau]

I still don't know how to fix this up, do I need to clarify?

when you go to gambit.forumotion.com, I want it to have right away, what all the forum topics are, that that site, is the, is the term 'basket'?

my main page is the topic den, you know?

I would love that, because right now you have to click on the only one,
like I have sub forums, and I don't want them, so it's like i have an

"Enter" link, instead

[SarkZKalie]

Sorry i don't understand but what exactly are you trying to say?

[Draxion]

I think they mean this?

ACP(Admin Control Panel) > Display > Homepage > Structure and hierarchy > Index packing > Index packing

and...

ACP(Admin Control Panel) > Display > Homepage > Structure and hierarchy > Hierarchy > Sub-level links on index

[Wecoc]

What he's asking for is a way to make the subforum link the main page of his forum, and delete the current main page instead.
So in other words, when you enter the forum's main page what you will see is the subforum content (topic list box) instead.
He has only one subforum, so the subforum table displayed in the default main page is unnecessary for him and wants to rip it off.
It's not easy to explain, hope I didn't make it worse

I'd like to be able to have my home page,
gambit.forumotion.com be where http://gambit.forumotion.com/f1-take-a-gambit-enter-here
is right now, do you see?

I don't want more than one page, for them

I don't need any subforums,

so I'd like to make the forum ticker my main page?

Please help

Sadly I don't see any clean way to accomplish this. Because the way how template variables work, you can't simply edit the main page template to insert the topic list box there instead; it would not work. Instead, using template edits altogether with Javascript/AJAX this could be possible, but it's not very recommendable. The code needs to load the data from the "real" hidden topic list box, page by page, and put it in the new topics box on the main page. This is a long code process and the topics would not appear instantly as they do now, so it wouldn't look very good...

I recommend you to conserve the main page and the subforum page separately the way they work now.
Maybe you can edit the main page template to look completely different and more useful in your case.
For example, you could change the subforums table to an image that links directly to that particular subforum instead (so it wouldn't look like a one-element table), and apart from that you could add other useful things in the page (affiliates, info about the page, etc).

This is much simpler than converting the main page to the subforum page, you would only need to edit one template.