Board options

[Talnic]

I PMed da house ogre with this info also but I forgot to include 2 of the things you would need to edit

You can always create another board for just the market place using a new table prefix then you will have to edit the includes/constants.php file and change

define('BANLIST_TABLE', $table_prefix.'banlist');
define('GROUPS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'groups');
define('PRIVMSGS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'privmsgs');
define('PRIVMSGS_TEXT_TABLE', $table_prefix.'privmsgs_text');
define('PRIVMSGS_IGNORE_TABLE', $table_prefix.'privmsgs_ignore');
define('RANKS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'ranks');
define('THEMES_TABLE', $table_prefix.'themes');
define('THEMES_NAME_TABLE', $table_prefix.'themes_name');
define('USER_GROUP_TABLE', $table_prefix.'user_group');
define('USERS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'users');

change the $table_prefix of those to what ever your current table prefix is and then you will have a whole new forum but using the same users, themes, rangs groups, and banlist as this board, that way you dont have to try an maintain 2 of everything. The onlything that you aill have to admin on the other board is the authorization for the groups and adding removing catagories and forums

you can also edit define('SESSIONS_TABLE', $table_prefix.'sessions'); if you want the who's online to showup for both boards, but that may or may not cause some slow downs if you have a high number of users on both boards

That way people will get their privet messages no matter what board they are viewing, and will have the same login and if you set everything in the new boards config page the same except the script path to /market or something then they will use the same cookie for both boards also

[Talnic]

If you want any help with ANYTHING releating to phpBB let me know I know the system inside and out and will be able to acomplish just about anything you might want done fairly quickly.

I have been working with phpBB since version 1.04 about 3 or so years ago. and with every version the first thing I do is go tear it apart and learn how it works from the inside out I am now working on a portal system for Guilds that uses phpBB as it's backbone.

[Talnic]

Another reason to switch to a new board for the server forums is your front page is currently 93k and changing the url to http://mboards.eqtraders.com/phpBB2/index.php?c=2 drops it to 24k 70k may not seem like much at first but if you get 2mil hits on the front page a month it would drom from ~180GB per month to 45GB per month from the board index alone a savings of 135GB per month can make or break a site

I saw in another post someone mention if you could force the board to auto colaps and you should be able to if add a few lines to page_header.php

if(!isset($c)
{
$c=1 //or what ever catagory you want to be the default one.
}

that way you are only sending info for the forums people wana see not a giga huge list