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Hi there,

How does one target the home page of the forum. The easy way in template would be if segment 1 equals etc but they ( segments) don’t seem to work within the forum.

Could manage in php which isnt too much bother but wondered if there is native way.

Thanks.

Hi TheStig,

Yes I don’t think that segment variables will work from within the forum templates.

PHP could definitely be used to do this though if you enable it for the module.

I’ve not looked into this but perhaps you could try placing your code or whatever you are trying to do into one of the theme files for the forum located at :

themes > forum_themes > theme you are using > forum_index

Maybe one of those files in there could help with this?

Does that help?

Thanks,

Mark

Hi TheStig,

One of my colleagues just mentioned that there are actually some special forum segments that are available for use.

These are current_request, current_page, and current_id.

So I believe you should be able to do something like this :

{if current_request == ''}
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{/if}

Hope that helps a bit.

Thanks,

Mark

As a quick note :

If you take the URL of http://example.com/forums/viewthread/24/P5

current_request is viewthread
current_id is 24
current_page is 5

Thanks must go to Pascal for this as he let me know about those.

Mark

Magnificent! Working, thanks a lot Mark and team.

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Glad Mark and Pascal were able to help. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.