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Hello all,
I'm sorry to open a topic on something that has been written quite a bit on already. However, I'm not finding the answer I'm looking for.

What I'm trying to do:
I need to have a 'splash page' for an update that I'm doing on a client's site. From the splash page, he wants it to link to a specific page, like a table of contents. Easy, right?

What I've done:
- I modified .htaccess file to include the following: 'directoryIndex index.html index.php'
- Now I have the desired effect. I have my splash page that goes to the contents page I created. Groovy!

The problem:
- Well I couldn't get too happy, could I? Well, the problem is that the home menu item goes back to the splash page. I don't want that. The only time a visitor should see the splash page is when they first arrive at the site.

Troubleshooting:
- I tried replacing home link with another. I used 'link to url' and input http://dev.collegewebmagazine.com/index.php, however, the link just goes to the spash page.
- I tried unpublishing the Home menu item... That didn't work either.

What I don't want to do is have to create a sub-directory for the main site to 'live' within in order to have this splash page work properly. I've done some reading around and searching and haven't found the topic that offers the solution I'm looking for. What am I looking for? Splash page that links to main contents page with a 'Home' link that doesn't link back to the splash page, but back to the main contents page.

I'm using joomla 1.0.15. So if there are any suggestions or even extensions that could help, please let me know.

Thank you,
Alex

No one, huh?

Well, I do have a work around. While not a definitive answer, if you use the SH404SEF extensionhttp://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2380/Itemid,35/ you can configure a 'forced' home page that will come up when someone clicks your home link from your navigation menu.

So that resolves my issue, essentially.

I do have an idea and it might work...

If you make a splash.php and check to see what the referrer was. If it was your site, push back to index.php, otherwise run the splash code.

Taken from http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php


Otherwise you're going to have to get pretty creative to solve that pickle.

Your solution can be found here:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=428&t=289658&p=1290030
greetings,
Piet

Hi,

Here is the solution for it:

Your splash page index.html should be on the same root where your index.php have now open index.php page and add this line of code in the top of index.php just after <?php

//////////////////Code Help From Outdoorbranding.com//////////////////////////////

if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]) && $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]!=""){ } else { header("Location:index.html"); }

//////////////////Code Help From Outdoorbranding.com//////////////////////////////


Thats it

Try it and it is working fine

If you have some other questions or query do let me know i will provide the solution


Muhammed Ameen

When I updated my template with the above code I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/content/site/html/templates/rt_solarsentinel_j15/index.php on line 8

Dear Friend,
Below are the details to use the splash page:
you will need to copy your index.html file in which you will use swf file for splash page in the root of the joomla site directory. and then open the index.php file of the joomla site root directory and here are the steps below to modify it :

-Copy your index.html file on the root of the joomla site in which you will use your flash .swf file.

-Now open the index.php file of the joomla site root and add the following code at the top just after the " <?php "

//////////////////Code Help From Outdoorbranding.com//////////////////////////////

if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]) && $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]!=”"){ } else { header(”Location:index.html”); }

//////////////////Code Help From Outdoorbranding.com//////////////////////////////
Thats it.

Hopefully it will work if not then send me your index.php file i will update it and will send back it to you.