um... Hey welcome to the forums!

b2evolution can do just about anything you need, as you've started to figure out. The thing is though that once you take out any linkback to b2evolution you don't stand much of a chance of getting free help about free software in a free forum.

Sorry, but IMHO you're on your own.

I don't think it is a good idea to include the whole blog in your page.
The best way to get what you want is modify the skin. Just move everything above the blog in header and the rest in footer.

hey edB

thanks for the friendly hello.

not sure what u mean abt "linkback"...

the site i'm including on this forum is just a test site. not teh finished thing. once i've figured out how to do what im trying to do, by all means, ill go back and reconstruct the code to provide homage to whoever is to thank. the test site is by no means meant to be viewed by the public at this point... nowhere on my actual site is there a link to the test site... its purely there for to demonstrate what my problem is to u kind folks here on the site.

i get the feeling that u may have an idea to help me. if u do, then im sorry if i've caused any alarm, andi will certainly provide due credit for any assistance u may have. and a beer. i'll get u a beer.

thanks for the help!

kp

hey sam2kb

you do have a good idea... and its evidently what i shoulda done from the beginning and saved myself abt a day of work tryin to learn this php stuff. i thought abt it for a second... then thought "NO. how hard can it be to embed a page with php!!" and then spent the next day or so hacking at code to figure it out... that ultimately i spent so much time on that idea, that i just want it to work! rather than concede defeat yaknow?

problem is... i need this blog on my main page... and the b2evo install isnt in my main directory.

though i spose i could just use a redirect if it comes down to it, right?

would it then be possible to use two different blogs on the same page? cuz that was the original intention... though thats prolly an entirely different topic!

Okay, maybe I am just dumber than a bag of hammers, but I cannot figure out how to get my blog onto my website.

I have read that I can "use a stub" but I can't figure out how to get that to work.

Is there any way to get a block of code to imbed in my site?

Thanks,

Todd

Hi drtodd,

Welcome to the forums.
You're the 5000th registered member of the forum.
CONGRATULATIONS.

Back to your question.
It is very difficult to incorporate the blog into an existing site. What you want is to make a skin out of the website and use that for the blog. Once you have done that you can replace certain pages of your site with the new blog.

Basically you want an existing skin that somehow resembles the structure of your website, strip it from all styling and move your own style over to the skin. For a normal site you are looking for the header (images), the background (colours / images) and the fonts (styles).

If you provide us a link to your blogs we can give you some more specific advise.

Good luck

Hi Kane,

What you want is basically the same as this question: http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=14716
Therefore I will merge the two topics and move them over to the Templates, skins, XHTML and CSS forum.
I will see to it that you both will get the answers you need.

Good luck

To kanepres

Try to comment this string in the top of _main.php

skin_content_header();	// Sets charset!

Another way is disable PHP errors. But if you wanna make a good and valid site without css styles mess you must modify the skin.

well played sam2kb!

commenting that string managed to get rid of ONE of the warnings...

however one still remains.

they are like pesky little rodents!

Quote:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/kanepres/public_html/test.php:4) in /home/kanepres/public_html/b2/inc/MODEL/sessions/_session.class.php on line 222

is still there.

i wonder if since the warning related to the skin was able to get rid of by commenting a string in the skins... if theres some other php file that just needs to have a line commented... hmm

¥åßßå suggests this. In your existing index.php at the very top put:

<?php
ob_start();
require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/path/to/evo/index.php';
$blogPage = ob_get_clean();
?>

and at the point where you want the blog to appear simply do:

<?
echo $blogPage;
?>

You must change "/path/to/evo/index.php" in the relative path from the file you are editing to the index,php file of the blog.

I am not sure if this works as advertised, but this looks promising.

Good luck

¥åßßå rocks. He said so himself.

afwas!! u sir are a ROCK STAR!!

totally works.!

check out

http://kaneprestenback.com/test5.php

i'm even able to use my currentstub.php!

so thanks all!

i'm gonna edit the official index.php in the morning. and no worries to edB... i promise i will include a link back to b2e! especially since u guys helped little me and figured out my little problem! heck, ill include a link back on the home page, and on my credits page!

yep. that yabba fella rocks indeed.