Modifying PHPBB3 - Modifying Joomla - Help Needed

MrMacca · 19 Aug 2008 at 09:17

I posted a problem I was having with an old PHPBB2 forum that was solved instantly by this very forum, so I want to throw out my next 2 questions.

I have a Forum as well as a Joomla front end which serves as the website for my World Of Warcraft guild.

Now on both websites, I would like to have the side image that is featured on the official World of Warcraft WOTLK website - http://www.wow-europe.com/wrath/index.xml

Here is the Image - Side Images

Does anyone know how I could modify the layouts of the following 2 sites:

Joomla - Main website - http://www.mrmacca.com/ascendantsofevil/
PHPBB3 - Main Forum - http://www.mrmacca.com/phpbb3/

So that rather than having the black background of the forum, it is replaced by the image shown above.

My priority is mainly for the PHPBB3 Forum to have the look, so don't worry too much about the Joomla one.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!!

ClearChaos · 19 Aug 2008 at 23:12

Pretty easy in joomla to chance the backgrounds of templates, infact ive just added that background on mine in about 20 seconds

Depends on the template i guess but im just using one of the defaults
Template manager > select template > edit css

just need to find the file that deals with the background and change the line with the current image to

background: #000 url(../YourTemplateImagesFolder/page_background.jpg) center top repeat-y;

should be able to do something similar with the forum i guess if you dont mind digging out the css file from the 20billion sub folders that phpbb has

MrMacca · 20 Aug 2008 at 08:21

Much appreciated ClearChaos. Worked like a charm. Modified both the Joomla aswell as the PHPBB3 forum.

Just out of interest would you know a way to do the following?

I want to create a link to the main website on the menu at the top of the PHPBB3 forum that links to the main website.
At the moment it just has :

User Control Panel • 0 new messages • FAQ • Search • Members • Logout

But I want it to look like:

Main AoE Site • User Control Panel • 0 new messages • FAQ • Search • Members • Logout

Can this be done?

Also, is there a way I can make the .SWF banner at the top clickable that redirects BACK to the Forums index page?

Apologies for all the questions.

ClearChaos · 20 Aug 2008 at 12:36

Using the codeblack theme on mine so it just a case of going to...
Styles/Codeblack/template/overall_header.htm

you can add a link to your raid planner/dkp site as well and hide it from users that aren't logged in


<a href="http://www.linkhere.com/"> • Raid Planner</a> 


just need to pop in the link and job done, no idea about flash unfortunately im guessing you would need to edit the .fla and turn it into button or something

still trying to get that flash background from the wotlk site squeezed into mine, not going to well at the moment lol