Adds a Portal application to IP.Board. Based upon IP.Board Portal by IPS. Please be sure to direct all support questions or suggestions in the discussion topic rather then at IPS. The Portal is currently exclusive to the IPS Marketplace, I do not support this application elsewhere.
 
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For websites with forum-based content, which I believe is most of the cases of IPS websites, the idea of having a separate database like IPS Pages does not appear to be a good idea. Besides, I think Pages is beyond the need of most of the websites of this kind (though it still lacks many fundamental or important features, and is not easy to use). On the contrary, the current Portal app is just too simple.

I suggest something in the middle of the two, with the following features: 

Display:

• Truncating options to set length, to choose whether to keep the formatting (i.e. rich text).
• Article thumbnails (generated from images in the post, if no image available then choose a default one).

Article management: 

• To ability to manually modify the displayed articles: remove or re-order/rearrange them (so that old articles can go on top if needed). Currently the list is built from a set of chosen forums, with a predefined order (based either on creation date or on the date of the last post).
• Category: the ability to define a category for each added article. The ability to remove/add/re-order an article in a category.
• Permission: which groups are able to manage the list. Moderations action in topics: promote to or de-promote from Portal (can choose category).

With these feature, the app does have a database, but it is very simple: just a list of arrays of topic IDs. Each list corresponds to a category, which contains the name of the category and an array of article IDs in this category. 

 

I strongly recommend @Mike John to make a paid app with these features, as a Pro version of Portal. I believe it will be a success. Of course I would be very happy buying it  If somebody else is also interested in this, please let Mike know.

 

Thanks.

A suggestion to @Mike John: The current layout leaves a wide space below the avatar. Although this does not seem to be a problem on larger screens, it should be optimized for phone screen. I suggest Mike to resize the avatar and put it into the title bar. 

 

 

 

Not working with 4.1.7 here either, I have had to disable it for the site to run

 

You sure it's just not showing you the topic? Just hid a post and logged out and it seems to be hiding the hidden topics.

So the portal is showing me hidden topics because I have the ability to see hidden topics? If that's the case; is there some way to make it not pull them period? Especially since there is no indication it's a hidden topic in the portal.

Getting this error here too:

 

The application you uploaded cannot be installed because it is not a valid application, the archive is corrupt or the file and directory permissions in /applications do not allow it. 

and the chmod of the application folder is 777 as well as all subdirectories... so that isn't the issue.

 

1. Can I have the error code for that error?
2. Are you positive your host supports Phar in PHP?
3. Just to rule it out, you selected the "tar" file and not the zip?

1. 1C133/9

2. Not sure what this is, but I'm on a dedi, so I can install it if you point me to it.

3. yes.

 

I opened a support ticket with IPS and they told me it's something I'd need to refer to you. -_-

Also, should add this (or something similar to the same effect) to the post styling:

<div style="clear: both;"></div>

Before the line that says replies, views , and add reply.

Reason? If you float / right or left align stuff like images, then they overlap that line. Example:

The clear: both; line would stop this from being an issue and that 0 replies, 13 views, add reply and the line above it would remain at the bottom.

Edited January 22, 20178 yr by Koby

 

how disable defautl blocks?

Open the widget blocks when on the Portal main page and remove any default widgets like you would a widget on the forums.

 

i see but no edit default blocks

You can click the remove icon for default blocks still.

 

 

ok but no add blocks in center

No but the header/footer areas has the same affect as above or below the main topics block.

@Mike John Not sure but the thumbnail grabber doesn't seem to work for me in 4.4

Edited April 26, 20195 yr by Serayah

I'm going to ask two very stupid questions because I can't for the life of me figure it out.

1) How do I access the portal manager? I found the settings and where to add blocks but now how to arrange the page.

2) I have your Donations mod, how can I create a block for it on the portal? Is that possible?

 

Never mind- I'm a potato and found it.

 

Thanks!

Brian

Edited May 23, 20195 yr by bbisbee