Author Topic: Making Event Registration Page the Home Page (Solved) (Read 1387 times)

bstanf · December 17, 2008, 07:21:39 pm

I can't believe how difficult this is, and I hope that someone here can lend a hand.

I want to redirect anyone coming to my website to a CiviCRM Event Registration Page. That's it. It couldn't be simpler to describe, but EVERYTHING I try fails miserably.

The problem seems to be the pesky ?id=1&reset=1 part at the end of the url. It gets all F'd up no matter what I try.

First, I thought I'd use the front_page module. I've used it in the past with much success with Drupal. So I fired it up and put in the URL. Mangled.

So, then I tried using a url alias and pointing the front_page module at that. Mangled.

How can I do this? Please, please, please help me figure out what should be something brain dead simple.

bstanf · December 17, 2008, 08:00:00 pm

Thanks to a little bit of help from dlobo in IRC, I've got a solution that uses a php redirect and front_page module.

1. Make sure that you have PHP Filter and Front Page enabled in admin/build/modules

2. Create a new Page (node/add/page)

3. Set the title to anything

4. Set the body to:

Code: [Select]

<?php
header(Location: http://www.example.org/civicrm/event/register?id=1&reset=1');
exit();
?>

5. Make sure the input format is php code.

6. Go to Advanced Front Page Settings (admin/settings/front)

7. Set your redirects to the new node you just created

8. Change your front page from node to front_page.

9. There's no step 9.

And there you have it. Super huge thanks for dlobo for helping with the PHP code.

kasiawaka · August 06, 2010, 11:16:27 am

Thanks for the useful info.

I believe you are missing ' before Location.
The proper code should be:

Code: [Select]

<?php
header('Location: http://www.example.com/civicrm/event/register?id=1&reset=1');
exit();
?>

Also, for the Front Page to work, please make sure to enable the Permissions (/admin/user/permissions) for anonymous and authenticated user to "access frontpage"

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