SmEdD's Portal
 

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 :)

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.

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

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awsome looks will check it out

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

Looks nice. I'll check it.

Sweet! Thanks for posting. :D

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.


Hmm never knew that, never played with IB . . .

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.....

<a href="http://www.biohazardentertainment.net/" target="_blank">http://www.biohazardentertainment.net/</a>

basic demo

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

In index.php find:
Add above it:
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.

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.

Hey SmEdD. Great WORK!

Thanks for a simple portal that works!.

Very cool, congrats ;)

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thanks.

this is very simple but very usefull

my favorite portal

www.gime.com demo here :D

thanks

Sticky threads shown on homepage. How we disable this?

A great script, just what I was looking for - installed on CnCWorld

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

File Attach, French Language ;)

Great looking implementation!

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

Find and Remove this from newscache.php (line 36)
Umm I will add this to my todo list when ever I get a chance to doing it :P

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

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

Thanks
Paul Green

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?

How do I edit the template to match my styles?

btw excellent work =)

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.

Just edit the SmEdD's Portal Templates to how you want them.

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.

Ok I got it... =)

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

a little slow today.