Integrating Vanilla Forum

[mark465]

I would like to integrate my Vanilla Forum for my GetSimple site. Ideally I would like to have "Forum" displayed in my main menu which would redirect one to my Vanilla forum subdomain. I haven't been able to find a howto on how to accomplish this. Any help would be appreciated.

[Ampersand]

I have no experience in this forum, but as far as I can read from the docs, it is a PHP MySQL script. I would start from:

1. installing vanilla forum in a subfolder of main directory of your GS
   
2. creating a page 'forum' via your GS
   
3. preparing a simple theme for this page:
   

Code:

<?php
include ('subfoldername/index.php');
?>

I am curious if this worked.

[mark465]

I installed vanilla forum to the 'vanilla' subdirectory and created a template 'vanilla.php' with the code you suggested and placed it in my theme's folder. In the page options I set my Forum page to use the vanilla.php template. I'm currently getting a blank page when I click on 'Forum', so I feel I must be misunderstanding your directions. Thank you for the reply.

[datiswous]

General info: https://blog.vanillaforums.com/help/how-...r-website/

Using external link in I18N menu: http://mvlcek.bplaced.net/get-simple/mul...navigation (INTERNAL/EXTERNAL LINKS)

I don't know if that is needed, I think you would be able to just embed the forum in a page, but I've never tested this.

I'm currently getting a blank page when I click on 'Forum', so I feel I must be misunderstanding your directions.

A blank page could also be some server error (which you don't see). Check your error log.

[mark465]

Thank you for the help. The i18N and i18N_custom_fields plugins did the trick as far as linking to an external link.

[shawn_a]

Whew $200/month