Embed Flarum's navigation bar to static site?

doublethinker

I just started using Flarum after about a year of lurking around and what a platform! I absolutely love the navigation bar and I want to replace my static site's navbar with it. It would be a great way to kickstart my visitors to start using the forum and be a part of the community, and get alerts while surfing my static site.

Right off the bat, I don't think iframe is suitable since the best parts of the navbar (search, alerts and profile/sign in) either dropdown or have a modal component.

Would it be possible to embed just the working parts from the main page of my Flarum using javascript? Both the static site and Flarum are on the same domain so there wouldn't be any cross-origin issues.

ChristopherKhawand

doublethinker
Try using php maybe?
include_once('forum/index.php');

doublethinker

ChristopherKhawand Are you referring to Flarum's index.php at the root folder?

I tried that by adding to .htaccess: AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm and <?php include_once('/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/flarum/public/index.php'); ?> to the html file. It didn't do anything but force a download of a copy of the html.

But I did do some reading on this idea and it seems like it might work if I can trigger the correct php file in flarum that handles this. Though I doubt it would be as easy as include_once('/srv/users/serverpilot/apps/flarum/public/vendor/flarum/core/views/app.blade.php'); ? That php file seems to be the one responsible for the layout.

Pollux

doublethinker I want to replace my static site's navbar with it

Have a look at this extension: Flarum Pages (Create custom static pages in Flarum)

Maybe you can build on that with your own custom extension.

luceos

Flarum is a spa. Your best bet would be to include the javascript generated by Flarum and spy on the blade template on how to run it. Then it's all up to you I guess.

Please note that the blade files hardly do anything, Mithrill is what makes this little diamond roll.

doublethinker

Pollux Thanks for the suggestion, I don't think it's quite the same as what I am trying to achieve though. I use Grav CMS to generate a static copy of the site, and it seems like Flarum Pages uses the database to store and extract the page to cache. That said, being able to somehow merge Flarum and a static site into one seamless experience is interesting...

luceos There's no going about it then, I gotta deep dive into whatever Mithril is besides troll stopping armor.

Pollux

doublethinker it seems like Flarum Pages uses the database to store and extract the page to cache.

I know that. My idea was to spot the querying of the database in the extension's code and replace it with the feeding mechanism of grav.

doublethinker

To update what's good on this thread so far. I've decided to not deep dive into the innards of Flarum and simply replicated the fancy parts of the navigational bar. The screenshot below is my testing site with the nav bar. The search works too, since Flarum uses query strings to run a search.

This way, whatever development that happens on the site and on Flarum remains fairly clean and independent of each other.