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Portal for SMF 2.0
vdubbia:
why wasn't a portal front end part of the 2.0 project? Seems like a pretty popular feature and I'd imagine it would have been easier to code along with the forum vs. after?
Not a criticism, just asking.
Rumbaar:
Well I can't speak on behalf of the team, but for me I see SMF as a forum software. Pure and simple. With a portal system, while a good addon, would make it a CMS and not the core drive of SMF.
weightman:
I understand its too early but it would be nice to have the ability to choose an install package based on what major add-ons you want like SimplePortal, or TP or Orstio's Mambo Bridge (would have to include Mambo of course), maybe the Wordpress bridge (haven't used it), etc and maybe have those options in the web installer. This seems like it would leverage existing hooks, ease installation immensely, and encourage development in those hooks making SMF even more untouchable. I get the feeling joomla and phpbb are going in this direction?
Kindred:
simplePortal and TinyPortal are mods... they are not part of the SMF distributed codebase and are not supported by the SMF team. (Bloc does TinnyPortal on his own, not as an SMF team member)
the bridges designed by orstio do not modify the SMF source at all, and are actually add-ons to the CMS, not to SMF.
The wordpress bridge is not stable, from what I have heard and, again is not designed nor supported by the SMF team.
So, there is nothing to distribute as a web install with any of those.
rsw686:
--- Quote from: Rumbaar on March 25, 2008, 07:50:04 PM ---I doubt you'll find any bridge/portal software compatible with SMF 2.0 yet.
--- End quote ---
Coppermine gallery is compatible with SMF 2.0 out of the box. Also my MediaWiki bridge is compatible with SMF 2.0. If you have a few minutes of time you can find/replace the fields in SMF 1.1 FlashChat bridge and make it 2.0 compatible.
Although none of these require theme / source code changes to SMF. Things like tiny portal require massive amounts of coding to the theme and database queries that will all have to be reworked. With the next SMF 2.0 beta templates having a more semantic html layout you would have to make the theme changes twice.
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