Currently the only way to change existing forums is by editing the database, either using phpmyadmin or by manual SQL queries. You can hide existing forums by changing their category to 0.
There currently is no provision for nested categories. You can simulate this by using categories such as "News (German)" -- David On 20-Sep-2010 10:22 AM, Constellation Athome wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm checking how to change an allready existing forum, like adding > categories, re-arranging them and also adding sub-categories for usage in > translation sections (English, German, etc. main categories and then the > sets of sub-categories. > > First thing I would like to know is how to change an allready created forum? > Is it possible to just change the create_forums.php in the way I want to > have it, use it and let the script do its magic and then the old set of > categories is overridden and there is the new input? And what happens to > allready posted threads inside, when I want to do that when needed after the > project went live? Will those disappear or be in the same forum's "id" how > matter they are called now? Right now there is the standard set > http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_index.php and I want to > change it. If this will mean that allready posted threads will be gone, > that's okay at this early stage. But then how to do that without losses, > too? > > And then there is internationality. We would like to offer a German and at > least an English branch looking like > 1. German forum > 1.1. News > 1.2. Project > 1.2.1 Number Crunching > 1.2.2 Problems > 1.3 Cafe > ... > > 2. English forum > 2.1. News > 2.2. Project > 2.2.1 Number Crunching > 2.2.2 Problems > 2.3 Cafe > ... > > Ho to do that right, because there are $catid = create_category(0, "TITLE", > 0); and how to tell the the script the "level of category" and is it > possible to put two of these commands back to back? Is one of these numbers > the category level and if so, which one? > > Thank you in advance, > > > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > boinc_projects mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_projects > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
