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Hi Guys,

I have 2 questions for you:

1.
Are you able to integrate your forum module into the body of a
main home page, like the one from the link below? Maintaining the links on the left hand side, and tabs on the top.
e.g: http://forums.hardwarezone.com/

Because when i use the EE forum module, i am not able to maintain the links on the left hand side, and tabs on the top. Any help is appreciated. THANKS!

If we are able to, where i can find out how?

2.
For example, when i do not enter a password when i try to sign in to my yahoo account, i get an error in red on the same page, beside the password text box
e.g: https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us

So my question is, are we able to generate the error message just beside the text box.

Because from what i understand, we are always brought to an error page, that contains the error message.

If we are able to, where i can find out how?

MANY THANKS! ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED.

For #1 I’m a little fuzzy on what you’re going for.  You can run the forum in a subdomain like that- it will show on the sub.mysite.com - there’s a hidden config variable that will allow you to set the base path (see use_forum_url.  But- I’m not sure that’s what you’re asking.  If you can put the links in the forum templates, no reason they can’t be maintained.  They’d need to be hard coded, as the forum won’t parse most regular template tags, but it seems like it would be mostly a matter of editing the templates.  (Think I may be missing something on this one.)

As for the error messages, no, those can’t be displayed on the same page ‘out of the box’.  You might could do it with an iframe or ajax or some other creative solution.  I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it done with an iframe.  But the default setup, user messages are displayed in a new window.