Problem while Integrating SMF with an Existing website

Started by ajayvibha, September 20, 2007, 09:37:14 AM

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ajayvibha

Hi Friends,

I have spent quite good amount of time in reading various post here about "integrating SMF with an existing website"

I am trying to use my own header in wyhich images are there .Now Problem is that on the forum main forum ( http://www.ajayvibha.com/forum/ [nofollow] ) everything work ok with my header visible .But any forum / category /topic  is click than header images does not come up ( please check out http://www.ajayvibha.com/forum/general-discussion-b1.0/ [nofollow]    and  http://www.ajayvibha.com/forum/general-discussion/welcome-to-smf-t1.0.html [nofollow]  )

I have put my images & header file under forum folder .Following is the details of my header file :-

<table border="0" width="100%" id="table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
   <tr>
      <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><a href="http://www.obiztek.com/ [nofollow]">
      <img border="0" src="images/OBizTek.gif" width="121" height="19"></a></td>
      <td width="386" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
      <p align="right">
      <img border="0" src="images/00338IA0153_LG.gif" width="468" height="60"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td bgcolor="#000000" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
   </tr>
</table>

Lot of time I have spent in fixing the problem but no success.

Can anyone give the comments.

Thanks & Regards,
Ajay
www.obiztek.com

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motumbo

I just wanted to comment on a problem with your code.


<td width="386" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p align="right">
<img border="0" src="images/00338IA0153_LG.gif" width="468" height="60"></td>


You have an opening paragraph tag, but no closing tag--<p align="right">.
There is no need for you to wrap an img in a paragraph tag, anyway.  Fix that then see what happens.  I don't know if this solves the problem, but you can't fix anything until you get the basics right.

Also, did you validate your code?  http://validator.w3.org 

If you validate, you will find other errors in your code.  Fix them all, then come back if it isn't right.

ajayvibha

Hi motumbo,

Code validation has been done just now.

But still problem is there as header images are not appearing on category / topic pages .

I think that there is some guidelines which need to be followed so that only the fly SMF will automatically pick up the path of the header images.

Can someone help .
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metallica48423

you shouldn't use relative URL's for such things, or this will happen.

type out the full url in src=" "
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motumbo

Quote from: metallica48423 on September 21, 2007, 08:01:23 PM
you shouldn't use relative URL's for such things, or this will happen.

type out the full url in src=" "

Nice catch!

Absolute URLs aren't necessary if you include the slash so everything is relative to the domain name's root.  src="/images/OBizTek.gif" assuming http://www.obiztek.com/images is the path to the images file will work just fine.

Using relative URLs as much as possible makes moving your site from your home development server to your production server easier.   

metallica48423

depends on the context, if the files are moving, then yes it makes it easier.

But using the same relative path in another part of the tree will be nothing but problems :P

Personally, i use absolute paths, and if it changes, i can do a mass search and replace with a text editor :)
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ajayvibha

Hi Friends,

Thanks for the comments, my problem is solved.This has really made the life comfirtable after spending so many house in fixing the problem , also alternatively I used $settings['images_url'] and it has worked.


Now another major problem which I am facing is about including the file in the header by using simple php include like <? include('adrotate.php'); ?>  .For ongoing discussionPlease check out the thread http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=170219.0

There are many many cases/ uses when we want to include some files.It [nofollow] seems SMF works on strict standard like bbpress which I scarapped in favor of SMF versality .But here again using include is becomming the problem
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karlosantana

ok im throwing in the gauntlet in smf 1.1.4 theres no //footer stuff here bit or any include() i hopnestly have looked im using the default theme cause i like it :D also how do i remove the php boxes mySQL boxes etc at the bottom of the page anyone out there that can help??? please?

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metallica48423

theres a set of functions in the index.template.php

template_main_above(); is the header
template_maiin_below(); is the footer
template_menu(); is the navigation menu

you should be able to search 'theme_copyright' and you'll find those images on either side of it :)  Just make sure theme_copyright(); stays there (it is a requirement)
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