Using Splash Screen Page in Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, WordPress

This works great and all but in Joomla the first Main Menu Nav button pointed to the “frontpage” component now links to the splash page. Any ideas?

Thats simple, just unpublished the default Home menu, and create a new “Link – Url ” menu named Home, and point that menu to your splash page.

I unpublished the “Home” link and created a new one pointing to the home page url http://www.mydomain.com/index.php and it still goes to http://www.mydomain.com which is where my splash page is since it is http://www.mydomain.com/index.html.

You got it all wrong bro
If you create a new menu that points to index.php that is useless, because index.php is Joomla’s main index file. If you want the Home menu to go to your splash screen page, you should point the Home menu to index.html and not index.php

Hope this helps..

Thanks for your help.

The thing is I don’t want the Home button to take me to the Splash page. The server is setup to see index.html first. That is my splash page. I have a link on that page to index.php. I also did the .htaccess trick you describe. Pretty straight forward.

The home button by default is setup to take me to the “LiveSite URL” which is http://www.mydomain.com. Which is my splash page index.html. I want the home button to take me to the Joomla main page at index.php. When I create a new button and URL it to index.php it takes me to http://www.mydomain.com anyway.

Thanks.

Hello Drew,
Are you sure that the button menu navigation load the menu from the database or it was manually defined from the template?

To make sure, check the template you’re using and see whether menu was manually defined in the template or not.

I have the same problem here, I’d amended the .htaccess (fine).

The path I want is that the user only hits the splash page once upon entry so once in joomla when the user clicks on ‘home’ the return to ww.domain.com/index.php and not http://www.domain.com (splash page).

Any ideas, swift responses would be greatly appreciated as I’m working for a client!

poor client.

Geektips have you actually tried this with Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and WordPress? Changing your index page with the .htaccess file has the potential of breaking a lot of the links in the CMS. I don’t know about Joomla, Mambo, or Drupal, but I know that in WordPress it references the index.php to show elements like comments, archives, pages and categories and the way that it references the index is just to point back to the main url it was installed on. So if you set it up on mydomain.com it will point to mydomain.com?p=1#respond and if your default index is an html file, WordPress just attempted to run php variables in html.

For what the hell is that?

Same problem, any fixes yet?

Have you finally found a solution ?
I m still searching !!!

Anybody any ideas on how to create a splash screen page and make it work. It shouldn’t appear of course in navigation and visitors shouldn’t be able to go back to this splash screen page, just a way to enter site Thanks for help
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Hi all You can use two different templates. on e for splash page and another one for your website.

I used splash page with login.

Its working fine.

Steps to be follow

– Go to template manager
– in that u can open any template (Not default one)
– then u can assign the template for menu items.

See the attachements…

U can use more than 1 templates for your site.

[b]Cheers,

Regards,
Sathish[/b] :laugh:

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
muhammed.ameen@gmail.com
Outdoorbranding.com

Wow….after searching for hours on google, this post gave me the answer and solved this issue. Thank you so much

does this work with wordpress?

Hi Muhammed
I use your trick but it didn’t work.

Any suggestion

Hi you nice people!

Muhammed, thanks for your tutorial on how to make a splash screen. Can you please tell me what the index.html should link to in order to go to the main page of Joomla (index.php doesnt work)

Cheers folks,

Jonas

JOOMLA SOLUTION
based on Muhammeds info –
1)
I changed his code to (single quotes):
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']!=''){ } else { header('Location:index.html'); }

put it in the Joomla root index.php file at the top

2)
create an index.html file
I used the link in this file like:
just a normal plain link to your site - the previous php will know that you are in the same root and send you to homepage not the splashscreen

Save the index.html in your root of Joomla

Test:
- In browser address bar type your domain
- Your splashscreen comes up and you click your link.
- You arrive at your site in the Joomla template
- Click the “home” menupoint – and you should NOT see your splashscreen.
- Type your url again in the browser – and here is your splash again…
Seems to work for me…

Pls help me with other splash screen solution