Wrap my phpbb board goddamnyou ;)

Hey all, was wondering if there was a way to wrap my board inside my WP.

I've semi achieved it by using and iframe (see: here)

but was wondering if there was a way to call the phpbb index into the actual page without ifram'ing? mainly to avoid scroll bars.

any ideas?

ps. the code for that page is:

Code:

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<?php
/*
Template Name: Forum
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<iframe name="I1" src="http://www.ibeats.co.uk/forum/" width="774" height="1700" border="0" frameborder="0">
Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.
</iframe>



<?php get_footer(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

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Could use an XMLHttpRequest with js. Or the PHP 'fsockopen' function to return a file pointer and then GET request the page checking for TCP/IP prompts then splurge out the forum index page. Example is on php.net. Best off SEARCHING GOOGLE too. Millions of ways to do it. Via XML is probably the most noddy way though.

I might have totally misunderstood what you are trying to do (since the above reply seems to make no sense to me) but have you looked at the php docs as it seems a fairly common thing for sites to want to do.
Perhaps theres a function you can call that renders phpbb or theres a way to add your own content to the standard php pages (i.e your menus)

Could probably just include() the blummin thing.

apprently <div> is the best method, but whats that all about... im a DIV myself... i dont understand how to put the fe'ther in a <div>

the first reply, threw me too.

It was my understanding you wanted to display another page on your web page. That would require a http request to be sent from your page. Unless of course the second page is on your server, in which case you could just include() it.

ive tried to include it usuing the absolute but it errors, including using the http://www.ibeats.co.uk/forum/index.php url causes conflict.

both are on the same server.

ibeats.co.uk/forum is the path to the forum (/home/ibeats/public_html/forum)

hmm im stuck.

If the including page is in your public_html dir you would use: include(./forum/index.php);

The problem is most likely resolution of any URI's on the included page.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by yamangman

The problem is most likely resolution of any URI's on the included page.

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spot on, so how to fix?

Im wanting to achieve the below:

http://www.vini.co.uk/uploads/forumpress.jpg

PHP Code:

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<?php
/*
Template Name: Forum
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
    <div id="main">

<<<< INSERT FORUM INCLUDE?? CODE?? WHAT?? >>>>

    </div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>



</body>
</html>

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the above, is a blank template for my wordpress theme, is there anything i could include in there to get the forum looking like the picture?

an iframe does the job i want, but iframes are rubbish. i dont want the scroll bars and hassle that they bring.

ive tried an include but all the links and css goes to pot for the forum.

any ideas on a way to do this?

You can't without some major hacking of the forum code, you can't just include an index page and hope it loads as there will be a substantial amount of other code, particularly relating to session authentication that will also need to be pulled in. There must be someone who's created a portal using phpbb out there and has the source code available, best searching for that

Theres MKPortal... but im not sure where to begin.