How to add Forums Index Block to Home Page???

Is it possible to add forums index block to home page?  

Thanks!!!!

Not directly as far as I know, I tried copying the forum index block and it did not work.  You will have to create a php block with code to connect to the database and retrieve the list of the forum index.  You will also have to code the link around each one so they are clickable.

Someone else may have done this and can give a better answer.

That sucks!  I was hoping it wouldn't be too difficult. :-(

Deano's Block Tools module might work.  I recommend asking him first if that block can be moved around without extra work.

http://www.boonex.com/m/Block_Tools

I used Block Tools to copy the Forum Index block to the Homepage without luck.  I can try a different forum block and see the results.

Update: All forum blocks show pink; meaning they won't copy due to needing to be on the specific page.  This is going to require a custom coded block.  It shouldn't be that hard though if someone has time to knock something up.

Nope.

I just tried doing this by hand as well, and failed. I seriously hate orca.

Not positive, but I think Newton has done this. He may be able to elaborate on the difficulty....

So nobody knows :-(

If you want a drop in solution, then the answer is no.  However, if you want to write a script to connect to the database, you can retrieve the forum index and then output it to a block.  With php and mysql, you can access anything about the database.

 No, what I did was make a image of the index, put in html box and linked to the forums index.

e.g.

There you go; sometimes we get lost in complex solutions when a simple solution is right there in front of us.

Here is the solution that Newton has presented.  You create an HTML block using the builders.  In that block you hand type each forum index, and you can indent the lines as Newton has done.  You then hand code links using the WYSIWYG editor so that one can click on each one and go to the forum topic for that section.  It won't take long at all.  If you add a section to your forum, it is easy to update the HTML block

 Ahhhhh! X~)

I gotta tell ya man, I'm not sure if you intended this or not, but when I seen it on your site my first impression was- "A person prolly needs to be a member or logged-in to have full access to that menu......OH...but look- I can click at the very top and it takes me to the forums anyway X~)"

SO- I was fooled....I thought there really was an entire, fully functional Forum Index Menu there....Pretty Good X~)

Yes; however, I took the idea one better, instead of just a graphic, go ahead and create the menu system in the HTML block by hand.  Here is how to do it quick and easy by just copying and pasting.  Go to your forum and select the entire menu from top to bottom.  Do a copy, and it will copy the text AND the links.  Now go to your page builders, open up the homepage and drag a new HTML block into place.  Now while in the normal edit mode with the toolbars, paste in the text.  It will automatically add the text AND links.  Hit save and presto, you have a REAL forum index that is clickable on your home page.

As I said, sometimes the simply solutions are overlooked.

 Yes GG, I only did a graphic of my forum index, it quickly gets the members there.

Making the actual Index in HTML is good, but I'm not going through all that, I just want to get them there quick.

This works for me...

But once the list is done, updating is simple; just the initial making the list and linking is tough.

No, it only takes a few seconds.  I did this on my site which has a very very long forum index and it only took a few seconds because you copy and paste it all in one go!

 To enhance what GG has proposed to do, I made a short tutorial video of a quick way to do this.

As usual, best viewed at full screen mode, click the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHCK__I1GfE

[edit] as you see I had one or two forums open to list the description, you can collapse (for no info) or expand to get all the topics descriptions added to the list.

Except I did not go to view source.  You can copy from the normal view of the page and paste into the WYSIWYG editor (NOT the html view, the toolbar view) and it will paste in the text and links. 

 I did that too, the first time but for some reason each time I tried after that, I got plain text; so I gave up and did the source. lol

The best way would be to write a php code that connects to the database and gets the forum index and displays it. This would always have an updated version of your forum index.

 That would be excellent if we knew how to write php, I personally don't, can edit and change things but not from scratch. lol

I'll write a code that will do it later php isnt that hard just takes a lot of studying to learn i spent the last year learning how to write it. Its a must for making boonex edits.

um, lmao at you... I know all about how to dude.

and your not 

Ok be rude your probably just a little Jealous but its ok you can be that way your not really hurting me! YouSearch still needs a lot of work better than most of all these dumb dating sites i see on here. And no im no Google I'm YouSearch and if i get 1% of the search traffic i'll make a billion in less than 2 years so im not really all that worried about what you think newton. All i was saying is that php is not that hard i learned it in 1 year and its good to know for major edits on the boonex platform. This forum is about helping people not ***t*** on them!

 not really and not out to hurt anyone...

> your right, I really don't help here.