PHP Portal - EZTarch beta [done and ready for download]

[Jedi~]

"To be honest... my blocks were preinstalled so it didn't support the drop in thingie yet."

What blocks, I see none on your site unless your talking about the news blocks...

[Kalin Somphane]

Ezlinks and Galleries and a couple admin only blocks...

and it was on the eztarch.com front

Ezlinks allow you to make your own links show up on the left menu

and galleries allow you to share pictures with friends...
passworded, public, membegroup access only, etc etc etc

with auto thumbnail creation and no limit on number of images per upload, or if admin wants with a limit...

both elaborate blocks made by me, and also I made some blocks that were standard so that it is easier for the template makers to move stuff around...

[Jedi~]

I still see no "YaBBSE" block system.
Doesn't matter, tommorow I should have my poll system up and then I'll be past you

[Kalin Somphane]

Hehe - I am in no competition...
I have already premade a couple of more things that let admins play with this.

and I also have a secret weapon(HALO) that will help Admins a whole lot...

the secret weapon will not be released, nor any info will be released untill the release date, due to people liking it and then taking it for their account...(I am not talking about Jedi, but some other peeps playing with PERL and ASP - meanies ...... > )

[Kalin Somphane]

I wish I knew C++

[groundup]

Jedi, you understand that PHP Nuke can sue you for infringing their idea? (I thinks)

no they can't.  You can't sue for an idea unless you have had a contract that says you will pay for it and even then the contract may not be legal as it is TOO abstract.

[Kalin Somphane]

Jedi, you understand that PHP Nuke can sue you for infringing their idea? (I thinks)

[groundup]

I know that is what you thought.  Just telling you what I know.

[John R]

Impressive!  I have been working on the same sort of thing on and off in my own attempt to expand YaBB SE into more than just a Forum.  I don't feel that one needs to rewrite SE in order to turn it into a nice CMS system, rather one just needs to make a few small changes to the way it works.

If I may be so bold as to offer you some functions that just might fit into your scheme of things.

These functions are created as yyfunctions in subs.php and can be called by <yabb tags> from your template.   This is only it's first incarnation as on rethought, I feel that it would be better to place special functions in a seperate file and then include that file with an include statement from within subs.php.

This function creates a small box with who is currently online in your site.  Nice effect for the front page and makes the look very modular in construction.

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function yywhosOnline()
{
   ob_end_clean();
   global $scripturl,$db_prefix,$txt;
   $guests = 0;
   $tmpusers = array();
   $request3 = mysql_query("SELECT identity FROM {$db_prefix}log_online WHERE 1 ORDER BY logTime DESC");

   while ($tmp = mysql_fetch_array($request3))
   {
      $identity = $tmp[0];
      $request4 = mysql_query("SELECT realName FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE (memberName='$identity') LIMIT 1");
      if (mysql_num_rows($request4) > 0){
         $tmp = mysql_fetch_row($request4);
         $tmpusers[] = "<a href=\"$scripturl?action=viewprofile;user=$identity\">$tmp[0]</a>";
      }
      else
         $guests ++;
   }
   $users = implode(", ",$tmpusers);
   $numusersonline = sizeof($tmpusers);
   print "<td width=100% bgcolor=white><center>$guests $txt[141], $numusersonline $txt[142]<br>$users</td></center>";
   
}

This function creates a small login box on your main page.  Also a very nice modular idea.

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function yylogin()
{
   $user = 'user';
   $pass = 'pass';
   ob_end_clean();
   global $username,$cgi,$txt;
   print <<<EOT
      <form action="$cgi;action=login2" method="post">
<table border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=0>
<tr><td align=right>$user:&nbsp;</td><td><input type=text name="user" size="9" value="$username"></td></tr>
<tr><td align=right>$pass:&nbsp;</td><td><input type=password name="passwrd" size="9"></td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><input type=hidden name="cookielength" value="$txt[yse50]"><input type="submit" value="$txt[34]"></td></tr></table></form>
EOT;
}

I also have a little members only menu that only appears to registered members of certain groups, other groups and guests never see it.  This particular example is the access box for my members hosted area.

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function yymembermenu()
{
global $settings;

if($settings[7]=='Administrator' || $settings[7]=='Global Moderator' || $settings[7]=='VGirl Member') {
print <<<EOT

<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpading=0 width=100%>
<td background=/yabbimages/catbg.gif width=100%><font size="2" class="text2"><center><u><b>Members Menu</b></u></center></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white><center>
<table>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white align=center width="259" onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColor='afc6db'; this.style.cursor='hand';" onMouseOut="this.style.backgroundColor='';"<a href=cgi-bin/VS/manager.cgi><font size="2" class="text1">WebHost Login</font></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white align=center width="259" onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColor='afc6db'; this.style.cursor='hand';" onMouseOut="this.style.backgroundColor='';"<a href=userlist.html><font size="2" class="text1">WebHost UserList</font></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white align=center width="259" onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColor='afc6db'; this.style.cursor='hand';" onMouseOut="this.style.backgroundColor='';"<a href=help.html><font size="2" class="text1">WebHost Help FAQ's</font></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center></td>
</table>

EOT;
  }
}

I also have things in process like a shoutbox, calendar, gallery, download center, and much more that are currently under developement or completed but not yet combined with YaBB SE.

cheers.........

[Kalin Somphane]

neat! can you make them as standard YaBBSE mods, but just make them make a separate file for each function and send them over!

[John R]

Kalin,
    Those functions are already working, you just need to insert them into your template and subs.php in order for them to work.  As an example, the following pic is a quick idea of what you would see with the members menu inserted and the whosonline inserted.  The interactive menu is just that and calls pop-up windows for those selections.  I didn't really come up with the idea myself, I just modified available code to meet my needs.

cheers...........

[Jedi~]

Well I had planned to do those next, I'll take a look at your code, it'll sure make my life easier

[Kalin Somphane]

John, could you send me the sources please...

I really like how you've done some of the things.

[Jedi~]

Thanks anyways John, but I coded it myself

Last seen isn't done, but I'm sure I can do it no problem.

[Kalin Somphane]

what is the webhost thing?