I have a feeling that something really good is going to come from this.

if its needed i might be able to get a copy of vBportal to one of the people coding this if they need it, im sure you dont tho

No, don't do that - this should be a cleanroom implementation.

Make a feature list and stick to it. Cloning a product feature for feature is not wise, even if it's free.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Charles Capps:
No, don't do that - this should be a cleanroom implementation.

Make a feature list and stick to it. Cloning a product feature for feature is not wise, even if it's free.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

acully they charge $20 for vBportal

<img src="frown.gif" border="0" alt="" /> and i know its a bad idea, i thought whom ever was doing it might wnana look at it in case they got stuck coding something is all, i dont wanna clone, vBportal isent that great IMO

Not very legal either if you ask me... charging money for a product clearly a port of a GPL-licensed script (phpnuke). Yes, they may have added their own little flares to it, but it's still based on open-sourced scripts. Even if it manuevers somehow to be legal, it's still not right.

Anyways, enough of vbp, this one could be nicer and much easier to install In the meantime, post suggestions and pointers to code if you gottem <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

I didn't write it, I just took Skorpion's code and moved it to one file... Skorp's code is better because you don't have to upload ultimatebb.cgi every time you modify something, but for some reason it didn't work on UBBDev's testboard <img src="confused.gif" border="0" alt="" />

hmmm... I don't understand the re-uploading part, but ok

Once we get some initial coding from DPK we'll open a beta thread and go from there, in the mean time, we'll work on goals and direction.

I added the "announcement post icons" to the list...

You guys are getting me all excited now.

I think compact headers/footers might also be a nice addition.

Someone may have already mentioned this, but a collapsable sidebar would very cool too.

me two, all we need is a way to have diff templates to diff styles and i can get animeforumz.com on a ubb 6.2! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0" alt="" />
i hate that vB, i so wanna buy anthor ubb and convert it over

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ 01-15-2002 03:25 PM: Message edited by: Anime-loo ]</font>

This is the structure I was sorta thinking about...



It's basically self explanatory, except for the modules directory. The modules directory will contain a single file for each mod included into the portal. The file (ubbp_mod_<name>.cgi) will contain information that can be parsed quickly so it can be served to anyone visiting your site.

Modules are loaded automatically for convenience (sorta like on newspro, not hard to do). Settings for that module then magically appear in the cp, letting you enable/disable it, move it up/down - left/right, or whatever. All settings are saved to a central config file.

Through 'hooks' in ubb_portal.cgi, the modules can insert parts of them-weird-selves. The visitor to your site never really sees anything except index.shtml which wonderfully uses ssi to include different things.

Come hither and dissertate your thoughts... <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ 01-15-2002 08:18 PM: Message edited by: DPK ]</font>

anyone feel like designing a logo? <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

anyone feel like designing the public interface, making sure it's xhtml compliant and all the other such.

Your structure/plans sound good DPK, especially the plug-in/module support.

have a news sorter, u can sort via newest, oldest, acending, decending etc.

This is a great idea guys. I like it. <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Anime-loo:
have a news sorter, u can sort via newest, oldest, acending, decending etc.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

most likely the news will be stored in an announcements forum.. would be much more valuable there for commenting, searching, etc...

How did i MISS this thread?

If anyone's interested I have a more advanced ubbnews i can easily name "UBBPortal News" or something. Just ask. <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

Greg: advanced, how so? <img src="smile.gif" border="0" alt="" />

</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>anyone feel like designing a logo?

That looks great, and I have a newly designed site I just put up today that REALLY wants this portal.