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SMF Forum oscommerce integration
for osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2
This contribution integrates the popular Simple Machines forum (SMF) into your oscommerce store. This gives a much more streamlined look to your store, making the forum page look like any other page of your store.
You must first install the opensource disussion board (available at www.simplemachines.org/download.php if your server doesn't come with it already) and then upload the attached contribution files.
As the forum is installed into a different directory and yet is accessed from forums.php in the root directory, the installation does not mess up your oscommerce installation.
The package also includes a javascript workaround for the error caused if a customer accesses the forum directly without an oscommerce cookie (regardless, refreshing the page gets rid of the error)
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The following has been added to forums.php, replacing the javascript redirect.
The benefit is that there is a smooth transition in the redirect, such users will not see a glimpse of the redirect page and thus not realise.
To install: simply replace forums.php with the one included.
Thanks to our forums moderator Johnson for this tip!