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Okay....My last 3 questions/posts met with little or no response. I had really hoped to get more answers then I what I got. Hopefully I'll get a helpful answer with this question.

I'm not trying to do anything crazy or fancy....I simply want to add a FORUM link and perhaps a DOWNLOADS link on the top of my screen much like what Geeklog has here. I'm not proficient in PHP at all, nor do I have time to learn it (trying to get SQL Server 2000 under my belt at this time). Could someone suggest the line of code(s) I'll need, what file to put it in & what not? The rest of GEEKLOG works great for me & I can make it work for me without further coding. I just wished that GEEKLOG had a built in forum like other PHP programs do.

Please let me know what can be done to get that forum link to work for me.

If I understand correctly your problemo do the following:
Try to edit header.thtml and and the links wherever you want.



No php expertise required.

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Okay....found header.thtml. Opened it up in Frontpage....I think I can go from here. THANX MUCH, Robin!! You honestly don't know how much I appreciate this!! Believe it or not you may have just made my weekend!!

Um, not sure what the problem is. If you have the forum and the file management plugins installed, then those links should appear automatically in the menu for you.

If you need them installed, I'm sure Blaine will do it for a few bucks. Or I will. Email me if you need that done.

Cheers,

Euan.

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Nope, it's mostly plain HTML with only a few variables (the {words_in_curly_braces}) thrown in. If you know HTML, you shouldn't have any problems editing these files. A look into the FAQ can't hurt either ...

Also, it's not clear if you have problems installing the plugins or adding the links. The forum plugin, for example, will add a link to the menu automatically (on most themes at least - those that use the {plg_menu_elements} variable in their header.thtml, to be exact).

bye, Dirk

euan,
I had many problems installing the forum that GEEKLOG has a plugin for. I have always prided myself on figuring these things out but the documentation for the forum installation is vague & not helpful (at least not for me). I'm not an idiot by any length but at looking at the documentation it was not clear. Personally I'd rather use the GEEKLOG plugin forum but for ease of installation I can install Invision and then send the link in my FORUM hyperlink. But I am going to keep plugging away at it & see what I can do.
In the meantime I may take you or Blaine up on the offer of installing it for me. Thanx for the help & I'll keep trying!

John

Also see this post by Blaine. Maybe that'll help ...

bye, Dirk

Okay....*sigh* Despite everyones attempt to help on this situation....I'm still thoroughly confused. Even with the link that Dirk sent with the .jpg pic I still had problems. And I'm not an idiot....I'm pushing 8+ years as a support technician with 4 of those years being an application developer support tech. So I know what is what & how to make things work. Maybe the document I'm reading is too advanced for me....I dunno. All I know is that I want to get this geeklog forum installed on this great piece of Geeklog technology.
Sooooo....this is what I have as my subdirectory hierachry. Maybe with this someone can walk me through what files need to go where from the Forum Plugin that I d/l'd here into my subdirectory:
domain-name/public_html
domain-name/public_html/geeklog
NOW....what do I do next? And please reference my exact verbage as above. I'm confused with ..."geeklog_dir" which is what is in the help file.

I sincerely appreciate all the help I'm getting here. I'm determined to get this running...AND I WILL!

My first thougth is that you are not taking the time to read the information and directions over carefully enough or need sleep, coffee or both.

The annotated image that was referenced above that I created even shows you that your directory that you setup in the geeklog config.php as $_CONF['path'] is the top level folder and where you installed geeklog - thus is the geeklog_dir. I reference other directories that are part of the geeklog install as reference points in the annotated image.

Get some sleep and take a look again in the morning and I'm sure you will see this is not all that difficult.

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