I know I can add/modify the html in the Main Template to alter the displayed content and appearance, and recently added a number of RSS feeds so that changes to related sites could be seen by visitors to the forum.

I've noticed a disadvantage to this in as much as adding the feeds to the template means that they appear in EVERY view of the forum, so the feeds show up on messages, calendar, edit etc etc, meaning that the feeds load on every view, which can slow the page view time down.

I was wondering if there was any (EASY) way to inject the code for the feeds so that it only appears on the Board Index page, and no others.

The feeds are brought in using an external service, and are therefore not just simple html, but are using external JavaScript scripts to function.

(I'm only looking for a pointer in case I'm missing something obvious here).

You will have to edit BoardIndex.pl. That's where the main page is rendered.

I suspected this would have to be done in the original code, which I don't like - I have enough trouble remembering to redo the mod_rewrite tweaks when E-Blah is upgraded (took 4 days before a user cried Help! due to odd behaviour, and that reminded me). Not needing perl knowledge elsewhere doesn't help either.

Thanks for the quick confirmation thought, helps save wondering if I was missing an obvious fiddle somewhere

Sure you can.  

http://www.eblah.com/forum/m-1169529278/s-9/#num9

Read that, then do this to your template:

Code <? if($URL{'v'} eq '') { $header .= qq~This will add text where you add the code ~; } ?>

This is how the "tag post" message works (go to the post page) and also how the guests message works (the little reddish box that comes up when you are a guest).  

Gave it a try, but didn't have too much success:

I wrapped the code between the two 'markers' given in the Code box in the previous message.

A quick check showed this had no effect (really just to confirm I hadn't mis-typed and/or broken anything).

I then edited Settings.pl to set $advancedhtml from 0 to 1.

The effect of this was to shift the div with the RSS feeds from the foot of the page to the head of page, so they all appeared at the top of the page, with the forum below.

There was no change in the pages where these feeds were displayed, and they still appeared on all the pages, as well as the Board Index.

It looks as if the - if($URL{'v'} eq '') - condtion isn't having the desired effect or is being ignored (I did copy/paste rather than type).

Code if($URL{'v'} eq '' && $URL{'b'} eq '' && $URL{'m'} eq '') { $header .= qq~      <h4 style="line-height: 1.5; border: 1px dashed #FFE222; border-right: 0; border-left: 0; background-color: #FFFBE2">       <img src="/blahdocs/images/tag.png" class="centerimg" alt="" /> Tag Your Posts<br />       <span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal">When posting a thread, please tag your post so that others can find it more easily the next time someone has a question related to your thread.</span>      </h4> ~; }

Tried that and it worked great here.

Ok  

The revised conditionals seem to be doing the trick now, and restricting the feeds appearance to the Board Index.

I changed $header for $footer so they appeared at the bottom of the page.

I may have noted a bug making itself known when $advancedhtml is set to 1...

Using the Theme Editor in the Themes Manager is not possible as only the CSS templates are offered for edit, the HTML templates are missing from the list. You have to disable the $advancedhtml option to get them back, or use FTP to edit the HTML template.

Thanks, you've done it again, a nice easy fix (if you're perl aware, and know the appropriate variables in E-Blah of course)

It's not a bug.  It's a security feature put in place so that people cannot login to the forum and hack it.