Suggestions

[wolferey]

First of all, thanks for fixing up the errors in phpBB3portal, and making it valid xhtml 1 strict!
I have many suggestions on how to improve the portal, and I hope you take them into consideration:

• News Pagination, making that [1][2][3]... appear at the bottom of the news module, so older news gets cut of into pages.
• Forum inside portal - Option in APC where you can make the forum appear inside center block, so you have the sidebars visible while browsing the forum.
• Block positions - Let us arrange and order the blocks, so we can have them just where we like them. (see mkportal.it for suggestion)
• Pagination on the recent topics block
• News cutoff tag - Set a BBcode/"magic word" that makes the news cut. Everything after the cutoff is shown when you press a "read more..." link. Allows for a more styled news display.
• Customize what kind of searches you want displayed in the search dropdown, and disable search dropdown (so it acts like the search in the header of the normal phpBB3 style).
• Language editing in APC, change names of block titles, allow for custom block language etc.
• option to remove jumpbox.
• board3 Portal - based on phpBB3 Portal - Add this in the overall_footer instead, so it doesnt break any custom designs. If people want it removed, they will remove it no matter where it is. I want it not to break my design, but I will have it to show support.
• show/hide collumns/sidebars, so if you want a 2 collumn site, you can disable one side. Goes together with block positions.
• Blog/media/page etc. modules?

These are just some that I have thought off, will post more suggestions when I can think of more.
Good work so far!

[Ice]

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[*]Language editing in APC, change names of block titles, allow for custom block language etc.[/b]
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What, too lazy to edit the language file?

Those are some pretty cool features you've suggested, I'll chat about it with the other devs and see what they think.

[wolferey]

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[*]Language editing in APC, change names of block titles, allow for custom block language etc.[/b]
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What, too lazy to edit the language file?

Those are some pretty cool features you've suggested, I'll chat about it with the other devs and see what they think.

I'm thinking more of those who have little to no clue about doing that. I am already modifying stuff :p

[wolferey]

• (Bug-issue/feature) I have set it so that portal.php is index.php and outside my forum folder, and when I log in or log out, I get returned to my forum index, not my real index. I think this also happens when you have portal.php inside the forum folder, not sure. I will see if I can fix this too, should be a simple session fix, but have a look at it yourself too, so we can come to a solution on this.

[Ice]

Logging in redirects you to "portal.php" which works if you have portal.php in the defualt location but not otherwise, I'll fix that.

Logging out on the other hand doesn't have a "redirect" flag, and so goes to the forums index page. :/

[Ratt]

How about the ability to have blocks shown on the index_body.html page and the option of creating and editing block content in the ACP like IMPortal has for BB2? This would totally blow the other portals available away if it had all of the options IMPortal has but it's only available for BB2 . And the ability to have custom pages like IMPortal has? It was abandoned by Master David a couple years ago.

[wolferey]

I already suggested being able to have the forum inside the portal, it's a much missed feature I would love to have.

Good suggestions on being able to create custom pages, and editing block content.

[go99live]

# Forum inside portal - Option in APC where you can make the forum appear inside center block, so you have the sidebars visible while browsing the forum.
# Block positions - Let us arrange and order the blocks, so we can have them just where we like them. (see mkportal.it for suggestion)

those two are some very cool feature. i used mkportal for a long time and i now shifted to board3portal. I really appreciate if those features are implemented

[Julies]

In the meantime, can someone tell me how to edit the block titles with images vs titles. I have an image that I grabbed from a guy to replace the Latest News block title instead of just having text. I'm baffled as to where to change it.

[Mike]

I dont which Style you use, but if you open your new.html the first line should look like this:

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{$C_BLOCK_H_L}<dl><dt>{L_LATEST_NEWS}</dt></dl>{$C_BLOCK_H_R}

simply replace {L_LATEST_NEWS} with: <img src="image_path.gif" width="xxpx" height="xxpx" alt=""/>