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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:21 pm 
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I have posted this question last week at the joomlahacks website and have not been able to resolve this issue.  Anychance you guy know of a solution?

I installed the newest version of Joomla, 1.0.4 I believe
I installed the SMF 1.1rc1
I also installed the joomla-smf bridge by cowboy.
I followed the directions perfectly.

My problem is that when the forums are wrapped with joomla I get a blank screen when users view a profile or try to post a new topic.  By blank screen I mean I can see the joomla top banner and the joomla menu(however it has not items) the rest of the page is simply blank.  When joomla and smf are unwrapped I have 0 problems.  Any chance anyone knows what is causing this error?  Thank you again for your help.  This is driving me NUTS!


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:24 pm 
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Could you post a link to the site?  If you view the source of what loads, you can some times tell where it is choking by looking at the end of the source code.

Ideally, if you can look at the error logs of your server, you should be able to see what is making it fail.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:25 pm 
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the website is http://www.axiompvp.com  I am going to wrap it again right now.  so please check it in about 5 min.  Thank you SO MUCH!


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:29 pm 
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oddly enought it appears to be working now.  Only thing i changed was that I installed the gallery2 bridge.  This is interesting. 


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:33 pm 
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Any chance you know how to fix the current wraping problem?  in IE the far right of the forum is being cut off.  Also, the template for joomla is not displaying properly.  In firefox the template is also streatching creating a slightly messed up right side.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:28 pm 
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It looks like you haven't done any theme and templating editing yet.  There's a few ways to go about fixing this.  The easiest is if you are only going to have people access this through your Joomla page.  If so, here are some tips from another post on the SMF site (most importantly, the xhtml to html part).
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THEMING:

Changing the SMF doc_type from xhtml to html will handle many of the basic "super
large font" issues.
The can be done by changing the line near the top of index.template.php in your SMF
Theme directory.
However, some of the Mambo templates and SMF themes do not play well together.

In the Mambo Template, fixed width templates of less than 500 pixels width are
difficult for SMF to "fit in".
You have two main options.
The first is to increase the basic width of the Mambo Template.
-> In MAMBO/templates/TEMPLATE_NAME/index.php, change the width call of the main
table to something larger...

The second option, which may require some tweaking, is the change the Mambo Template
into a variable width template.
-> In MAMBO/templates/TEMPLATE_NAME/index.php, change the width call of the main
table 100%...

In addition to the width issues, there are some overlaps in the CSS entires between
Mambo and SMF.
The CSS files for Mambo and SMF have some duplicate values that may conflict.
A proper design of the bridged site will include personalized templates/themes for
Mambo and SMF that
will avoid this situation. This may take some time (and effort), however. You can
make a "quick and dirty"
merge of the CSS files by doing the following:

Open the MAMBO/templates/TEMPLATE_NAME/css/template_css.css file
Open the SMF/Themes/THEME_NAME/style.css file

Copy all of the SMF Theme file into the Mambo template file.
Remove the Duplicate entries from the newly copied portion.
(In other words, if the CSS entry exists in the Mambo template, delete the entry in
the newly created SMF section)
Now save it, and then remove the same "duplicate" entries in the style.css file in
your SMF theme directory.


However, you will still have duplicate etc. sections so your page won't be XHTML valid.  Might not be a big deal for you.

If you want validation, or you want your forum to be accessible both wrapped an unwrapped, you'll want to either follow the directions posted here, or find a theme from someone else that has already done that.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:02 pm 
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thank you for your help.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:40 pm 
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oh my gawd!! spent 3 hours looking for this flaw!

now sharing the SOLUTION.)considering "classic" is the template name you are using.

step ONE:

open your SMF index in: /Themes/classic/index.template.php

somewhere on line 43:

Code:
   $settings['doctype'] = 'xhtml';


change to:

Code:
   $settings['doctype'] = 'html';


save or upload the modified index.template.php to your server/host

step TWO:

open /Themes/default/fonts-compat.css

change the font sizes into exact px.. meaning lets say:

Code:
   font-size: x-small;


into

Code:
   font-size: 12px;


then

Code:
   font-size: xx-small;


into


Code:
   font-size: 10px;


then

Code:
   font-size: medium;


into

Code:
   font-size: 14px;


searched the SMF forums, joomlahacks, and joomla forums and didnt seen this step(editing /Themes/default/fonts-compat.css)

hope this help others.. will be posting this in the FAQ.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:55 pm 
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@chadness.. posted in the FAQ:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,29307.0.html

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:22 pm 
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Great!  Hadn't thoguht of just hard coding the font sizes.  Should work for individual sites.

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