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Okay, let's say you want to make one of your forums escentially a link to another forum or somewhere else altogether. But you don't want to hack (there's a hack to do it at vB.org). And since nobody knows a release date for vB3 we can just assume that vB3, which has this feature, is really a big conspiracy. So here's how to do it.
1. Create a new forum; set it to not act as a forum (i.e., act as a category). This is simply to hide the new post icon which will not work accurately if you're linking to another forum).
2. Find out the newly created forum's id; to do this, go to your forum's home page and hover your mouse over the name of the forum and look at your browser's status bar. The very last number in the URL should be the forum id.
3. Edit your phpinclude template; add this to whatever you have in there already:
Replace the blue text with the forum id from step 2.
If you are linking to a completely external page, replace the red text with the URL you want that forum to act as a link to.
If you're linking to another forum, replace the entire "header(..." line with this:
Replace the green # with the id of the forum to which you want to link.
4. Save the template and enjoy.
Questions?
You can see this in action at my forums. The very last category ("All Other Forums") links to a different set of forums. Notice how the linked forum's id is 90 but the forum you get when you click the link is 19.

Okay, let's say you want to make one of your forums escentially a link to another forum or somewhere else altogether. But you don't want to hack (there's a hack to do it at vB.org). And since nobody knows a release date for vB3 we can just assume that vB3, which has this feature, is really a big conspiracy. So here's how to do it.
1. Create a new forum; set it to not act as a forum (i.e., act as a category). This is simply to hide the new post icon which will not work accurately if you're linking to another forum).
2. Find out the newly created forum's id; to do this, go to your forum's home page and hover your mouse over the name of the forum and look at your browser's status bar. The very last number in the URL should be the forum id.
3. Edit your phpinclude template; add this to whatever you have in there already:
Code:
if ($forumid == #) { header('Location: url'); exit; }
If you are linking to a completely external page, replace the red text with the URL you want that forum to act as a link to.
If you're linking to another forum, replace the entire "header(..." line with this:
Code:
header('Location: forumdisplay.php?s=' . $session[sessionhash] . '&forumid=#');
4. Save the template and enjoy.
Questions?
You can see this in action at my forums. The very last category ("All Other Forums") links to a different set of forums. Notice how the linked forum's id is 90 but the forum you get when you click the link is 19.
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