question about insterting guestbook or forum into your design already...

[exasko]

how would i go about taking a guest book or a phpBB forum and putting it into my website... i've seen a couple people do this.. i am just curious how they do this.. any help would be liked, thanks!

[Chicken]

For the most part, you just need to put your design around the forum, so that the forum is the content area (similar to what you probably have now). Adding headers and footers on top and bottom isn't too difficult, and it isn't that much harder to add the forum even if you have left navigation etc.

Start by creating a page that has everything but content in the content area. Split that page in two parts: Everything from the top of the header to the blank content area, and everything from the blank content area to the bottom of the footer. Your forum will go in the middle.

I haven't used phpBB in a long ime, but I'm guessing it has templates similar to vBulletin?

[robc]

Yeah phpBB and vB are both almost identical in layout

[EasyNetwork]

<?php include 'forum/index.php' ?>

[Chicken]

That wouldn't work as any page you click on wouldn't be formatted. He needs to add his site to the forum templates, not the forum to his site.

[rockergrrl]

Edit the header and footer:

Something like this...

Header:
<table width="760" border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">HEADER</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="142">SIDEBAR</td>
<td width="612">board would be here

Footer:
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">FOOTER</td>
</tr>
</table>

Leaving the header's last td open will put the board, etc right there... and closing the td in the footer, will close the cell.

If you need any help, just let me know. I haven't really messed with phpbb much (I'm a vBulletin type of gal), but I can help you (not that hard).

[Adam]

rockergrrl; you're talented in every way!! ;)

[rockergrrl]

*blushes*

Well I wouldn't go that far... lol

I've just been using vBulletin since 2000, so I know my way around it like the back of my hand.

And unless phpbb has changed since I last looked at it - it does the header/footer system the say way as vBulletin does.

Most guestbooks also use a header/footer system (usually a header.html/footer.html file of some sort), and you would do the same thing. (actually it depends on the guestbook system and how its setup)

[exasko]

rockergrrl...

I added u to my aim list, just incase I need your help :)