For those that want a portal, here it is. Upload Portal.v1m to your mods folder. Upload Portal.pl to your Blah/Code directory. Sorry, gtg ... have fun!



- Justin

Odd....made sure permission were correct, went backin and they were @644. Had to copy Blah.pl local, delete on the server, re-upload and was able to CHMOD. <!>.

Life is cool. Broken links for some graphics, will deal with after roadtrip.

Need to get back to original "theme" though :)

What is a Portal?

This particular one gives you all the info about posted msgs etc in one very nice package.

O.K. Thanks!  How is your website doing?

hurray! a new gadget and god knows how much I love gadgets!!!  I'll play with this one later on and let you know what I think of it.

What is Pre-Release Committee mean?

it means that we are kinda beta tester for new release.  And also we try to improve the forum program.  I myself can only give out ideas.  I'm no coder guru like Justin, but I'm a true forum addict, and know when I see a real good message board.  And trust me this one is!!!

Check out my sba link in my signature and check out the forums there.  It just goes to show you how customisable they are!

It's a great board!  But it would be the ultimate board if it was PHP :)

well that one is a lot easy to install on most server tough.  Not every host support PHP.

like my hoster barely support anything else than cgi or perl.  so this board is the ultimate for me ;D

But I did heard that PHP was really good as well. 

PHP ... more people like it ... why? It's 'faster' in some areas (mainly because it uses a database more than it does text files).


I just learned Perl, so I donno much about PHP ... I can program a little in PHP (as you can see from the homepage) ... but as you can see from the d/l page, PHP takes a while to check file sizes and open a text file ... or it does here (and this is a fast server).



- Justin

Hey Justin,

I just posted that thing about PHP just to see if you were checking :)  Also to find out if you were still alive since I have not talked to you lately. As far as boards go, I have experimented with many and um I think eblah blows them away :)

A lot of boards just have a lot of features that common people (ie: phpBB) do not need. For instance, phpBB2 has users create they're own templates (for EACH page), and guess what ... now days all you see is boards that use phpBB and all of them look exactly the same, nothing changed ... with E-Blah, you can at least change the entire layout (and individual layouts). *shrug*


- Justin

lol yes indeed!

Ok, I have the portal mod installed, but I have a few questions.

I modified the code slightly, to arrange things. I wanted the "Latest Threads" post under the "Board Statistics" and i figured that out ok, but it is right up on the "Board Statistics" table. How do I increase the spacing inbetween the tables?

Also, The "News" table seems to spaced further down than the other tables. How can I adjust this?

How can I make all my home buttons direct to the portal instead of the regular homepage?

I forgot to add my url as a visual aide it's http://mtgo.systemfool.com/~importracer/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl

Thanks in advance for the help.

You need a <br> under the board stats I think.


News should be verticaly alighned to the top (valign="top").




- Justin

Oh ... Modify Routiens.pl under header for the "Home" link ...

Thanks, I figured it out there was a <br> at the begining of the "News" string. All I did was delete this and put a <br> at the beginning of the "LatestThreads" string. Oh I also moved the "&LatestThreads;" to go underneath the "&LoadStats;"

I am still trying to figure out the "Routines.pl" thing though. I also wanted the "Logout" to redirect to the Portal as well. I am assuming this can be done in the "Routines.PL" as well. Basically I want any action that would normally take you to the regular homepage in "Blah.pl" to go to the Portal instead.

One other thing I've noticed is the time in the Portal is not the same as in the regular homepage. Is there a way I can connect to the corrected time that I setup in on the admin page?

Btw, I just wanted to thank you for eblah, this is the easiest board system that I have found to use. And it contains almost all the features that my website needed.

Disregard the time issue, I figured it out, there was a slight delay from the server that was creating this error.

Ummm ...

Code    $menubar = qq~<a href="$surl">$img{'home'}</a>$help $msp<a href="$surl,v=cal">$img{'cal'}</a> $msp<a href="$surl,v=search">$img{'search'}</a>~;    if($settings[4] eq 'Administrator') { $menubar .= qq~ $msp<a href="$surl,v=admin">$img{'admin'}</a>~; }    if($username ne 'Guest') { $menubar .= qq~ $msp<a href="$surl,v=profile">$img{'profile'}</a> $msp<a href="$surl,v=notify">$img{'notify'}</a> $msp<a href="$surl,v=login,p=3">$img{'logout'}</a>~; }       else { $menubar .= qq~ $msp<a href="$surl,v=register">$img{'register'}</a> $msp<a href="$surl,v=login">$img{'login'}</a>~; }

- Justin

Thanks, that solved my "Home" button problems.

Where do I make the changes in the login and logout redirect to go to the portal?

Ok, I see the &redirect; in "Login.pl" at line 234 do I just change line 232?
From
$url = "$surl,b=$URL{'b'}";
to
$url = "$surl,v=portal;

Ok, I figured out the Logout redirect. I changed line 232 from

$url = "$surl,b=$URL{'b'}";

to

$url = "$surl,b=$URL{'b'},v=portal";

I just need to figure out the login redirect now.

         $url = "$scripturl";


Should be:


         $url = "$scripturl,v=portal";



- Justin

Thanks Justin, that did the trick.

Is the portal compatible with 2.7?

Happy to say that I have upgraded to 2.7 without a glitch. ;D