Making a forum into a ventrilo link

New Member Joined: Oct 06, 2008 Posts: 4

Hi, I was wondering how i would go about doing the following:

On the forum i have:

Category: Introduction
Forum: Welcome
Forum: Ventrilo

When someone clicks Ventrilo i am trying to make it open vent and connect them to our server. I know this can be done but i can't remember how.

I know the vent link [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] but where do i put this?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. Which forum screen are you wanting to have clickable? I'm assuming you're not talking about a regular link that is used in a posted message, so you're referring to an index page of some kind?

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:07 am

yes, say your looking at the index of the forum. You have all the main categories, instead of making one of them links go the sub forum page how i make it redirect to an url or in this case a vent server?

thanks

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:42 am

I think what you want to do would be something like the following:

* Edit modules/Forums/viewtopic.php
* Search for viewforum. You should find 2 lines:
-- $view_forum_url = append_sid("viewforum.$phpEx?" . POST_FORUM_URL . "=$forum_id");
-- make_jumpbox('viewforum.'.$phpEx, $forum_id);

You will need to add some if/then/else logic to test for the $forum_id. If the $forum_id is equal to the Ventrillo forum id then create the link to the vent server. Otherwise let the process flow as is. You will also need to do that for the JumpBox.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:16 am

ok many thanks i will try that

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:40 pm

It would probably be easier to put it up by the forum header. Unless you really want it in the forum index.