xPortal

[Vincent]

I must say that this looks very nice and promising.

I don't have any ideas yet, but when I played around with it, I will have some

 

[ddmmh]

This looks awsome. How long till you release it ?

 

[Cupara]

Looking at a mid to late this week release.

 

[ddmmh]

Looking at a mid to late this week release.

Cool, cant wait to try it outm thanks steve

 

[dieketzer]

...It would be nice if it the url would appear as if it was in the root or at least the forum directory.
Not /portal.
Good luck!

i think the technical necessity of the community/portal url will remain forever. i have overcome the url issue using htaccess. but i really question the decision to use home>portal in the breadcrumb. i wish it just said 'home'

 

[Cupara]

i think the technical necessity of the community/portal url will remain forever. i have overcome the url issue using htaccess. but i really question the decision to use home>portal in the breadcrumb. i wish it just said 'home'

You and me both but I still have yet to solve that issue.

 

[Cupara]

Popular Threads/Latest Posts is a must for me , also the ability to potentially add pages using layouts would be a plus as well, it sounds like you're approaching it as a stand-alone portal but what will you do different to stand out from say Jaxel's portal? Looking forward to updates Steve

I have implemented a Popular Threads block and a Latest Posts block. Currently the Latest Posts block shows the entire message of the post but I will try to figure out a more concrete Read More link instead.

I am adding an Events block that will work by pulling data from a forum for now. With the second beta release it will be more of an option to use pages or a forum.

 

[Cupara]

One last thing, this will have no admin controls as of yet except the options. Adding/Moving/Deleting of blocks will not be an option till the second or third beta release. I want to make sure things runs smoothly and I plan to use AJAX for moving blocks from one column to another.

 

[jonsidneyb]

Watching this one.

 

[jonsidneyb]

I am going to have 32,021 questions for you when you are ready

 

[Cupara]

I am going to have 32,021 questions for you when you are ready

LOL go ahead and ask questions. I am planning a release tonight possibly.

 

[iTuN3r]

LOL go ahead and ask questions. I am planning a release tonight possibly.

Waiting for it

 

[Cupara]

I ran into a snag with the way it routes to the portal, as soon as I figure that out it will be released.

 

[Cupara]

Ok scratch that I will worry about the routing later.

I have good news and bad news, good news is I have the first beta ready, bad news is everyone will have to wait till tomorrow sometime. I'm too tired now and have a ton of information to type up first in regards to xenDirectory beta releases and the route for reporting bugs and suggestions.

 

[ddmmh]

Ok scratch that I will worry about the routing later.

I have good news and bad news, good news is I have the first beta ready, bad news is everyone will have to wait till tomorrow sometime. I'm too tired now and have a ton of information to type up first in regards to xenDirectory beta releases and the route for reporting bugs and suggestions.

damnit! lol

 

[Floris]

Well, what's a day wait

 

[dieketzer]

You and me both but I still have yet to solve that issue.

wouldnt it be feasable to simply not use the xf breadcrumb, and to create a fake breadcrumb?

 

[Cupara]

wouldnt it be feasable to simply not use the xf breadcrumb, and to create a fake breadcrumb?

Nope, tried that route already. I'm still working on it. The new routing method I am trying to implement will actually fix that issue, it will have Home only.

 

[Cupara]

Enjoy everyone: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xportal.8710/

I'm off to class and some rest from addons for the weekend.