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icon5.gif  Portal Thoughts [message #9877] Tue, 06 May 2003 02:10 Go to next message
MLimburg is currently offline  MLimburg   Australia
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Many sites I run are more than a forum, but not much more. They do, however, want a more non-forumish look. Would it be feasible to create a portal interface for FUD?

My idea is to have a separate 'category' page, which effectively provides the currently index page. This would then allow an index page which can be customised to provide whatever environment the admin wants. Smile

Thoughts? Opinions? Rants?

Mark
Re:Portal Thoughts [message #9959 is a reply to message #9877] Tue, 13 May 2003 14:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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If someone wants to add hooks allowing FUDforum to work as a portal engine, more power to them. Me, personally, I develop forums not portals Wink.

That said 2.5.0 or 2.5.1 (depending on how my time goes) will have support for XML feeds, meaning that you can definately use forum's data outside of the forum with minimum difficulty.


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Re:Portal Thoughts [message #10025 is a reply to message #9959] Thu, 15 May 2003 00:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tgaastra is currently offline  tgaastra   United States
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Cool, the XML feed really answers my "RSS" question too.

Looking forward to it.
Re:Portal Thoughts [message #10041 is a reply to message #9877] Fri, 16 May 2003 02:52 Go to previous message
JamesS is currently offline  JamesS   United States
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Depending on how "portal" like you want to get this will work:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title>A portal like page</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset="iso-8859-1">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="top_level">
        <div class="menu_bar">
            <ul>
                <li>Menu Item 1</li>
                <li>Menu Item 2</li>
                <li>Menu Item 3</li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <div class="main">
            <object data="/path/to/fud/index.php" type="text/html" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;">
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>


Attached is a stylesheet that is necessary to render that html.

Combine this dirty little hack with the information found here and you have a pseudo-portal site.
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