SmEdD's Portal

[SmEdD]

Ok I did this in a few hours since I get asked so much about my scripts on other sites so don't expect much. It is a very lite portal but can be easily expanded and customized to your likings!

Sorry if you are expecting the normal rich feature portal, I just don't have the time to make one.

Maybe in the future I will have some more time to spend on this and make it better :)

[Kaezul]

How about a screenshot? ;)

[SmEdD]

How about a screenshot? ;)
Nothing fancy, just a script for news and some sidebars with the default template.

These sites have the same script running them other then I removed the right bar additions (POTD, Featured Item, Global News and File Downloads) to the code and made it a bit more user friendly.

http://www.totalbf2142.com/
http://www.totalbf2.com/

This site http://www.teamati.com is running the same script just modded for their site :)

So in the end a screenshot only shows my imagination and not yours, this is just the base script for your home page.

[dunglantq]

This site http://www.teamati.com is running the same script just modded for their site

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[Kaleem]

awsome looks will check it out

[Kaezul]

Looks pretty nice. I think I'll go ahead and check it out.

[gscimbom]

Looks nice. I'll check it.

[jaysonx]

Sweet! Thanks for posting. :D

[Lalib]

what is this? :surprised: where is it demo:hurt:

[jaysonx]

what is this? :surprised: where is it demo:hurt:

It is a very simple plugin that pretty much posts news from your forums onto an external HTML (welcome) page. Think of it as a no frills portal page - which is what I have been looking for some time.

[jaysonx]

Ran into my first issue when trying to install, when I go into the plugin system (using vBulletin 3.6.0), it says "This file appears to be a Product, not a Plugin. Please use Manage Products to add this file."

I then added it as a product but nothing is showing up in my vBulletin options. Do I need to add a product dependency or anything? I am kinda new to this plugin stuff.

[jaysonx]

Nevermind, I did not name the product correctly - it must be named the same as the filename.

[byrom]

can i use this on 3.5.4?

[SmEdD]

can i use this on 3.5.4?
No, I may port it to 3.5.x as it is pretty much the same code.

[byrom]

because when i try to import the product it give an error, can you arrange this to functiom om 3.5.4?

[Ntfu2]

Awesome, i'd love to see this take off and users contribute to it, as it seems the other portal solution is slowly dying off

[jaysonx]

Is there a way to force update the news? I noticed that if you edit a post it does not automatically update, only when a new news item is posted.

Mucho kudos on this BTW. It works very similar to the setup that InvisionBoard has for handling news.

[Oddjob]

Is there a way to force update the news? I noticed that if you edit a post it does not automatically update, only when a new news item is posted.

Mucho kudos on this BTW. It works very similar to the setup that InvisionBoard has for handling news.

I have a similar question....

When you delete a thread from the forum it feeds off of, the post still stays in the portal.

How do i get rid of it?

[SmEdD]

Is there a way to force update the news? I noticed that if you edit a post it does not automatically update, only when a new news item is posted.

You can run the cron script called News Cache. This was a trade off to make this script to use very little load. I may make it so deleted threads and edited threads will update it also if it isn't to much work.

Otherwise it will update when a new thread is posted or at 15 past or 15 to the hour.

Awesome, i'd love to see this take off and users contribute to it, as it seems the other portal solution is slowly dying off
So would I. I always had people ask me what I use for a news script and could only tell them it was home made and I couldn't point them in any direction to one for them to use as they are all paid now . . . If anyone wants to make additions please pos them here and I will add them in my files download list so people may use them.


Mucho kudos on this BTW. It works very similar to the setup that InvisionBoard has for handling news.
Hmm never knew that, never played with IB . . .

[Craigex]

I've installed this hack but when I try putting $navbar in the the header or index, it doesn't appear. Where would I put it?

EDIT; Doesn't seem to work anywhere.....

[SuperFly]

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basic demo

[SmEdD]

I've installed this hack but when I try putting $navbar in the the header or index, it doesn't appear. Where would I put it?

EDIT; Doesn't seem to work anywhere.....
Sorry bout that I forgot to add in the option, so until my next build do this.

In index.php find:
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('smedd_index') . '");');

Add above it:
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');

Then you can add the $navbar call to the index template.

[Craigex]

Sorry bout that I forgot to add in the option, so until my next build do this.

In index.php find:
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('smedd_index') . '");');

Add above it:
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');

Then you can add the $navbar call to the index template.
Thanks, that worked! :D Also;

What would I put to add the newest poll to it? Like on the vbAdvanced one.

[SmEdD]

Thanks, that worked! :D Also;

What would I put to add the newest poll to it? Like on the vbAdvanced one.
That's a lot more complex, I may put this in for a furture version or someone may do their own code here and release it.

[louis_chypher]

Hey SmEdD. Great WORK!

Thanks for a simple portal that works!.

[Allan]

Very cool, congrats ;)

* Allan Click Install

[BeaLzeBuB]

thanks.

this is very simple but very usefull

my favorite portal

www.gime.com demo here :D

thanks

[BeaLzeBuB]

Sticky threads shown on homepage. How we disable this?

[chickendippers]

A great script, just what I was looking for - installed on CnCWorld (http://www.cncworld.org)

Just one feature request; the ability to have the poster's name in the news post.

[Allan]

File Attach, French Language ;)

[jaysonx]

A great script, just what I was looking for - installed on CnCWorld (http://www.cncworld.org)

Just one feature request; the ability to have the poster's name in the news post.

Great looking implementation!

edit: just needs "Act On Instinct" as the site soundtrack. :)

[SmEdD]

Sticky threads shown on homepage. How we disable this?
Find and Remove this from newscache.php (line 36)
thread.sticky DESC,

A great script, just what I was looking for - installed on CnCWorld (http://www.cncworld.org)

Just one feature request; the ability to have the poster's name in the news post.
Umm I will add this to my todo list when ever I get a chance to doing it :P

[ProAlbatross]

so sweet, thanks for share, bro, check it out

[creativepart]

Here's another vote for making this work on 3.5.4.

Thanks
Paul Green

[Aclikyano]

right now... I have www.mysite.com/forum (as the homepage) I dont want it like this
(and)
www.mysite.com/forum/forum.php as my FORUM PAGE!
I want www.mysite.com to be the HOMEPAGE (with this code u made)

and www.mysite.com/forums (to be my FORUM PAGE.... again)

help?

[bklynjava]

How do I edit the template to match my styles?

btw excellent work =)

[SmEdD]

right now... I have www.mysite.com/forum (as the homepage) I dont want it like this
(and)
www.mysite.com/forum/forum.php as my FORUM PAGE!
I want www.mysite.com to be the HOMEPAGE (with this code u made)

and www.mysite.com/forums (to be my FORUM PAGE.... again)

help?
It describes it vaugly in the setup file, look at the note. The problem is there are many templates that you will need to edit like headerinclude to include the forum path.

Right now I don't support this so I won't say much more then that.

How do I edit the template to match my styles?

btw excellent work =)
Just edit the SmEdD's Portal Templates to how you want them.

[bklynjava]

All I have is the SmEdD's Portal settings in vboptions I have no SmEdD's Portal Templates.

Where do I find the template (ie) my style templates are in Styles & Templates.

[bklynjava]

Ok I got it... =)

[phpdevrus]

am i missing something or is there meant to be a page.php included with the files?

a little slow today.

[phpdevrus]

re-reading the portal info, does it do the article stuff like in the example sites or is that additional features not include with this portal?

lol confused.

[YeşiLMeN]

I Add This Code "chdir(mypath);" Before The "require_once(./globals.php);" line But Give Error ;

Parse error: parse error in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\forum\index.php on line 42

[dooch]

This is top stuff, much slicker than other portals.

[own.co.il]

hmm how do I add news ?

[Ninth Dimension]

This is a cool script, I've got it running on a site I'm developing for a client.. it's exactly what I wanted, just a nice and simple news portal without all the crap that a lot of other news scripts have.

Nice work :)

[Ninth Dimension]

Hi there. I'm looking to slightly modify this mod so that it pulls news from different forums based on which page the user is using it view it.

As it stands at the moment, I've got it pulling news from one forum on the main page. What I'm looking to do is have it pull news from 10 different forums on the main page (which I know is possible using it's default config), but then if a user clicks on the relevant link, it filters out all the other news except for the link he's chosen.

To give a practice example, I'm talking about news from forums named 'wind power', 'solar power', 'hydro power', etc.. On the main page it'll list news from all these forums, but as soon as someone clicks on, say, 'wind power', it'll then only list the wind related news.

Is this possible? What sort of modifications would I need to make?

[ERuiz]

Is this mod compatible with 3.6.7?

[Ninth Dimension]

I've got a problem.... This does not seem to like custom BBCode.

I've got a tag, [IMGR], which will align an image to the right. It was quite important for this option to be available because we wanted to have a right aligned image next to each post. Is there any way this can be made to work with custom BBCode?

Cheers

[Millenium IT]

This script does not display sitenwes on my forum AT ALL. any help please?

[HTMMinion]

Very nice job with this!

I have it installed and working great, I'd like to include the "what's going on" information in the footer. I found the code in FORUMHOME template, but when I attempt to add it the members names fail to generate.

Anyone added this to the footer?

[MjrGaelic]

I'm typically a lurker and don't post much. but I had to say thanks for this script. Since phpBB became crap I lost fetchall which I LOVED.

This script is exactly what I was looking for giving me the flexibility to bring news to the portal but otherwise do what I want with the portal.

I've only been working on my new site (re-vamp) for a couple days and the only thing I'm lost on is adding additional content pages. Do I just create new templates and then call the templates out of the index? (sorry, I'm new to working on the guts in VB).

Thank you for this script and the time you vested into it.

[dooch]

rename the index.php and alter the templates it calls.

so yes, create new templates and creatre a new index and call the new templates from the new php file.

This mod is a good mod for creating custom pages.

Look at the way the index pulls templates and copy the way it does for new pages.

[HTMMinion]

Thanks dooch, you're right it does make adding content pages a snap. :)

Thanks for the great portal SmEdD ! :up:

[MjrGaelic]

Yea, that part was no problem. But now I have a bunch of individual pages where I'd rather just have "index.php?page=pagename" which would call to the template file.

[Brandje]

Great mod, thanx alot, I do have a few questions tho:

-The news block does not show up, am i missing somthing? I did add the forum id's, ran the cron, but still nothing.

-Also I would like to know how to create a latest image block as seen on the sample sites.

Thanks in advance

[Goomzee]

this Portal is work with 3.7x

[|Jordan|]

Doesn't completely work in 3.7.1 PL1 for me. The news displays, but BBCode doesn't parse (eg. links).

[D-Manthing]

Yea, that part was no problem. But now I have a bunch of individual pages where I'd rather just have "index.php?page=pagename" which would call to the template file.



edit index.php - replace:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('smedd_index') . '");');
?>

with

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'page1')
{
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('page1') . '");');
}
else
{
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('smedd_index') . '");');
}
?>

in admin cpanel create new template called page1 and put this as code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
$headinclude
<title>$vboptions[hometitle]</title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<br />

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="top">
<td>$left_side</td>
<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>

<td width="100%">


<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" class="tcat">



<strong>TITLE GOES HERE</strong></td>



</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1">



INSERT YOUR CODE HERE



</td>
</tr>
</table>

<br />

</td>
<td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>


</tr>
</table>

$footer
</body>
</html>

finally add link to this page in sidebar template (left or right):

<a href="?do=page1">&nbsp;&raquo;LINK TITLE</a><br />