Well, it was easier than I thought.
The thing about phpNuke is there are so many darned blocks available, but I just don't have the real estate on the page to show them all. For example, there is a block for movies that gives ratings, reviews, basic plots and show times according to your area. But I don't want to waste page space displaying that everywhere.
So the idea to restrict blocks to portals is appealing. I could restrict that block to show only on the entertainment page.
Anyway, take a look at this:
http://devsite.daily-web.info/index....rtal=entertain [Displays HOROSCOPE block]
http://devsite.daily-web.info/index.php?portal=sports [Displays SPORTS SCORES block]
http://devsite.daily-web.info/index.php?portal=business [Displays STOCK TICKER block]
So now I have ALOT more page space to manage. Every portal can have unique blocks, unique news, unique polls, display unique forum info (new threads, most active threads, etc)
For those of you that exchange/sell banner advertising...thats a whole lot more pages for page impressions.