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Title: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: firewired on April 01, 2005, 08:55:15 PM

My site started out as a forum so all members have that URL bookmarked. Now that I have Mambo installed, I want users to pass through the CMS instead of jumping directly to the forum. Is their a way I can "force" SMF to redirect them to the front page?

Title: Re: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: cowboy on April 01, 2005, 09:38:02 PM

yes, put this code in the first line of your SMF's index.php.

Code:

<?php
if (strpos($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], 'dlattach') === false) {
defined('_VALID_MOS') or header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com");
}
?>

Title: Re: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: firewired on April 01, 2005, 10:04:52 PM

Thanks!

Title: Re: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: Gandalf on April 08, 2005, 03:10:04 AM

yes but this will actually kill al the links, i mean a link like index.php?topic=XXX wl not be forwarded to the topic so you need also to include the whole $_GET inside the header function, but of course by doing a foreach to make it one string
like

Code:

<?
$string = ""
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value)
$string .= "$key=$value&"
if (strpos($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], 'dlattach') === false) {
defined('_VALID_MOS') or header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=XX&$string");
}
?>

Title: Re: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: cowboy on April 08, 2005, 03:41:00 PM

well, it did not kill the links here.

Title: Re: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: Gandalf on April 08, 2005, 10:42:46 PM

how that???
heaser("Location : http://www.yoursite.com"); will never redirect to somewhere else than the frontpage ... that's what i meant... you need to explicity include all get requests to be able to be forwarded correctly, because index.php?action=mm (member map) must not go to the mambo frontpage but to Wraped (or unwraped like it is set) member map

Title: Re: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: cowboy on April 09, 2005, 03:01:58 AM

Gandalf,

My code snippet is for the wrapped mode which is the code being used in this forum. I don't know if your code is for unwrapped mode in which I haven't tried.

Title: Re: How to make members use the Mambo front page?
Post by: Gandalf on May 29, 2005, 07:29:32 AM

Quote from: cowboy on April 09, 2005, 03:01:58 AM

Gandalf,

My code snippet is for the wrapped mode which is the code being used in this forum. I don't know if your code is for unwrapped mode in which I haven't tried.

yes but you didn't understand me, if (for example) another site have a link to a post on the old unwrapped forum ( http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php?topic=1500.0 ) if he used your method, he will be reirected to Mambo Frontpage instead of the topic, means broken link,

i used it in diffrent way

this way, the above URL (http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php?topic=1500.0) will redirect the visitor to ( http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_smf&ItemId=28&topic=1500.0 ) so admin will not suffer from broken links

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