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Hi there. I love this theme, and have installed in on a website I am currently developing.

I am a first time Joomla user, but I am getting used to all the features. I have, however, gotten some problems.

The website is a guild site, for a World of Warcraft guild. As such, it has a forum solution as well - phpbb.

I would like the forums to open in the middle frame, in a wrapper. However, when adding the wrapper as a module, I do not know where to publish it, since the middle frame does not seem to have a name?
I have tried adding tp=1? at the end of the url to see the names of all the frames, but it still doesn't show me the name of the one I need.

How do I fix that?

I've never used phpbb in a wrapper before - have you looked at fireboard? we use it here and I really like it.

we'll need to add a module position for the wrapper - we have not got one in the middle. Let me know if you want to go for it and well work out some code - what Joomla are you using?

Sure, why not?
I'm using the latest version- 1.5.7 I think it is?

Also, I'm looking at the fireboard options(not very thoroughly though, I must admit) - is there a way to add user groups and restrict access to certain sections of the forum, based on the user's group?

If it can be done, then I'm all up for giving it a shot:)

I'm not actually sure - Were actually running Joomla 1.0 here - been planning to upgrade for ages...

I would grab it and install it - It really rocks - It only takes a few mins to get it up and running and you'll be able to work out if it's right.

You might need to look at some of the user management plugins for Joomla: JACL etc to add group functionality, but then again you might not...

Here's what I'd do - zip over to bestofjoomla.com and grab firboard component, install it, create a menu link to fireboard component, have a look through the config settings.

I've installed it - it does not allow user groups out of the box apparently. Will install JACL plus as well, and see where that gets me.

Does the Joomla template itself need to be customized?

windeh wrote:
I've installed it - it does not allow user groups out of the box apparently. Will install JACL plus as well, and see where that gets me.

Does the Joomla template itself need to be customized?

Nevermind, JACL only works with Joomla 1.0, and JUGA(an alternative that I found, that works with 1.5), costs 90$ :)

ouch!
$90 seems a bit steep.

so you want to look at module positions?

Yeah, it would help a lot.

The funny thing is, I think I'm doing something wrong. When I tried getting phpbb in the wrapper, I published it to the rightmost content frame, and it ended up somewhere under the actual position, with none of the frames loading anymore.

Ok, sorted the forums now, they integrate in the wrapper.

I used JFusion to deal with the double logins, but now I've encountered another problem: wrapper content scaling.

Basically, the wrapper is published to the User1 position, and is too narrow to fit the whole width of the phpbb forum.

I think I need to change the width of the template now, but there's no parameters.ini file supplied. Do I just create one?

For reference, the (temp) website url is www.lost-guild.org/cms