Topic: EZPortal

[Chinaren]

If you're looking for a portal for your board, I'd recommend checking out EZportal. 

It's not as mature as TP and others, but I think it's the easiest one to use and install, and quite flexible.  I've been using it on my site with no problems for a couple of months now.

It's written by a guy who's done quite a few SMF mods, so he knows what he's talking about. 

I'm not related to this portal in any way, except I'm using it, just in case you were wondering.

[ccbtimewiz]

How do this portal compare to the simplicity of Simple Portal?

[I AM Legend]

I have it on my live site at present, the blocks require more tweaking then with SP, but in return, its more fun to work with, its kinda raw compared to TP and SP, but to be honest, I like it better then both TP and SP, because it is more simple compared to them, and less to go wrong with it.
The support end of it is slow, I have been waiting on an answer to 2 questions regarding it on smf for bout 8 days now posted in the support thread.
gets a 5 out of 10 from me, for whatever thats worth.

[Chinaren]

How do this portal compare to the simplicity of Simple Portal?

Well, it's purely down to personal preference of course, but I've tried SP, TP and some others I can't remember, and they all either had problems installing (my boards fairly heavy on mods), or they were arkward to implement or I just didn't like them for some reason.

The reason I like EZP is it's simple.  I don't need a great deal from a portal, and so this suits me fine.  

Again, purely a personal thing.  Still, always worth checking out different options. IMHO. 

Oh, also I have a couple of his other mods, (Gallery, download manager etc) and he's done it so this portal 'incorporates' these mods.  Again, a matter of convenience.

[Smoky]

 the only ones i would mess with is tp, sp, or portamx..   

playing with vbgamers mods isnt a question for me, and i have been around for a long time.

[I AM Legend]

it needs to be removed till he sorts out the issues in it, and then repackaged and put back out there as a working mod.

[Smoky]

if and when he will ever support any of his mods.

* Smoky isnt laughing on this one.

[I AM Legend]

thats deff not professional of him so, whats the point of writing mods and putting them out there with errors in them and not supporting the mods, dont get me started on this issue, MS has done that all the time with all of their OS, letting the public bug problem solve for them to save $$$s it sooooo pi**`s me off.

[ccbtimewiz]

Alright, I went through and fixed EzPortal's theme_linktree() issue.

Open ./Sources/Load.php

Find:

:

// Robots shouldn't be logging in or registering.  So, they aren't a bot.  Better to be wrong than sorry (or people won't be able to log in!), anyway.
if ((isset($_REQUEST['action']) && in_array($_REQUEST['action'], array('login', 'login2', 'register'))) || !$context['user']['is_guest'])
$context['browser']['possibly_robot'] = false;

// Set the top level linktree up.
array_unshift($context['linktree'], array(
'url' => $scripturl,
'name' => $context['forum_name_html_safe']
));
Replace with

:

// Robots shouldn't be logging in or registering.  So, they aren't a bot.  Better to be wrong than sorry (or people won't be able to log in!), anyway.
if ((isset($_REQUEST['action']) && in_array($_REQUEST['action'], array('login', 'login2', 'register'))) || !$context['user']['is_guest'])
$context['browser']['possibly_robot'] = false;

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// + EzPortal v0.2.4 linktree() fix by ccbtimewiz [2/12/09] (http://jeunosky.net/)

# Just in case... making this a global.
global $ezpSettings;

# Does $ezpSettings exist?! If not, set it to false and log NO errors.
if (empty($ezpSettings))
{
$ezpSettings = array();
$ezpSettings['ezp_portal_enable'] = 0;
}

# Are they perhaps running SMF 1.1.x and forum_name_html_safe doesn't exist? If so, let's fix 'em up.
if (empty($context['forum_name_html_safe']))
$forum_title = $context['forum_name'];
else
$forum_title = $context['forum_name_html_safe'];

// This contains the "home" of the theme_linktree(). This is set first if no portal page is active.
# @example: My Website
if (empty($ezpSettings['ezp_portal_enable']))
array_unshift($context['linktree'], array(
'url' => $scripturl,
'name' => $forum_title
));
// And finally, if the portal IS set, show the forum name and then "forum".
# @example: My Website => Forum
else
array_unshift($context['linktree'],
array(
'url' => $scripturl,
'name' => $forum_title
),
array(
'url' => $scripturl . '?action=forum',
'name' => 'Forum'
)
);
unset($ezpSettings);
unset($forum_title);
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[I AM Legend]

awesome, can this be incorporated into the mod for new people downloading it  so they don't encounter the issue ever again.

[Smoky]

not unless CCB is vbgamer. and that i dont wish on anyone.. but if you like, Lengends, you could post the post up on that thread, and then watch him say he will update it. typical of him. 

[I AM Legend]

I will post it up if ccbtimewiz is ok with me doing it 

[I AM Legend]

nm, posted it up in both of my posts, 1 post on it I had there, and the actual thread for EzPortal on smf, hope you dont mind me doing that ccbtimewiz                         

[ccbtimewiz]

Not really a problem to me as long as it contributes to his portal.

[I AM Legend]

Awesome ty