has anyone thought of a UBBPortal similar to vBPortal ?

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ 01-13-2002 08:05 PM: Message edited by: [ #1 Stunna ] ]</font>

I think it's a great idea.

I am confuzzeled (nothing new) What is or does VBPortal do?

Check out PHPportals.com

Besides grouping a few of our modifications together and calling it ubb portal... what do you see in vbportal that we don't have on the http://www.ubbdev.com/ page here? An SSI of polls might be about the only one not done yet....

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by AllenAyres:
Besides grouping a few of our modifications together and calling it ubb portal...</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

What would be wrong with that?

I think it would be a lot of work, but if everyone worked on it together I think it could be done. There is some talent here amongst the ubb hacks.

It would definately need some sort of controls in the cp for turning different mods on or off.

I actually think you guys could make it even better than the one for vbulletin. Considering ubb is by far a better forum than vbulletin, that would be an easy task. <img src="wink.gif" border="0" alt="" />

I have to agree that giving the portal page CP control would be great. And why not throw in MySQL support while you're at it? Sorry, I had to throw that one in there.

I love UBBDevs home page implementation, but it would be easier and very marketable to have a portal built in so new people could roll out a UBB integrated site easier. It would give them a good foundation for a faster start. I realize that there are a lot of purist that would scoff at that idea but I feel it's valid.

It's definitely valid, and probably something we could do quite easily and put an mhk together on... installation on a clean ubb would take 5-10 minutes and have no errors.

What features would you like to see?

Would need to remain "modularized" so that upgrades to sections (like the calendar or news) could be done easily.

Allen, you rock. As soon as I get off my laptop (and off work) I'll throw some ideas together if you like. I'm not sure how valuable a single persons input is. But having it use the variables that the normal UBB pages do, and style templates would be a huge plus.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by AllenAyres:
Besides grouping a few of our modifications together and calling it ubb portal... what do you see in vbportal that we don't have on the http://www.ubbdev.com/ page here? An SSI of polls might be about the only one not done yet....</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

well, from what i can assert, vBPortal ships "ready to plug in out of the box". It has all of those features that you see demonstrated on PHPportals.com w/o much tinkering. It also has a very nice CP:


http://www.phpportals.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=15384


they also have that cool little ShoutBox thing. all in all, it's a very, very cool plug & play solution.

hmmm... ok <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

one person's input is ok, but it's at least 2 now since mine is included too... I imagine we'll have quite a few more as it develops.

I'll put requested features here so we can update as we go:

Requested Features:

Must-haves:

• News SSI - done
• Latest Threads SSI - done
• Polls SSI
• Calendar SSI - done
• Forum Styles - done
• ???

Wants:

• WOL SSI
• Login Box for those not logged in and "welcome username" for those logged in
• web links
• shout box
• panels toggled on and off
• announcement posting icons
• User-posted Reviews
• Downloads Section
• Image Gallery
• ???

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by [ #1 Stunna ]:


well, from what i can assert, vBPortal ships "ready to plug in out of the box". It has all of those features that you see demonstrated on PHPportals.com w/o much tinkering. It also has a very nice CP:
they also have that cool little ShoutBox thing. all in all, it's a very, very cool plug & play solution.
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vbportal isn't the easiest to install and has some major html problems in the default styles that do not work well in browsers other than the latest IE. There are some things that could be done much better...

Allen, your list is outstanding, and something that I could use immediately.

I can put together one using the latest modifications we have here, tho I don't know if we have a poll ssi yet, I'll have to check the threads. And I might need assistance with the forum styles, tho I think grabbing the one Jamin did with pulling forum header/footers across should take care of it

Allen,

have a gawk @ vBulletin.org . It's a good example and has pretty much everything that you listed above. Don't forget the SHOUTBOX and polling.

O, one more thing, when you go into PHPportal.com's forum you have an option in the upper right that allows you to toggle the sidebar SSI on & off. Just FYI.

Allen, need any help? <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" /> I could code a master interface for it. Turn on/off different panels, customize things, blah, in other words, i'm bored with studying for my exams and want something else to do.

I'll code or do anything if you need it, I like the idea of UBB Portal.

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ 01-14-2002 05:39 PM: Message edited by: DPK ]</font>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by DPK:
<strong>Allen, need any help? You would do a much better job than I anyways - I am just getting the ball rolling LK has already assisted me in getting the forum styles to pull to the page (we'll use it for the style rotation thing as well).

The basics are there (except for the poll ssi), it just needs some integration and clean-up. Turning off and on panels are useful too <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

avatars in news would be nice <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0" alt="" />


aside form my ubb i also run a vB, www.animeforumz.com , see the stats at the top of the page? how about something to list the most viewed post, and top posteds etc. mabey addons to the member list?

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ 01-14-2002 06:41 PM: Message edited by: Anime-loo ]</font>