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Chris Graham · August 20, 2004, 08:58:23 AM

Hi,

I've written an SMF forum driver for hxxp:ocportal.com [nonactive].
It'll be included in our next release

. This means the portal will be able to draw off SMF for member authentication, comment topics, etc.

Kris · August 20, 2004, 10:16:18 AM

When is the next release scheduled?

Chris Graham · August 20, 2004, 10:47:28 AM

It should be out in the next couple of days, perhaps even today. I'll post back here when it is

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Kris · August 20, 2004, 01:53:54 PM

Quote from: Chris Graham on August 20, 2004, 10:47:28 AM
It should be out in the next couple of days, perhaps even today. I'll post back here when it is .

I will be checking.

[Unknown] · August 20, 2004, 07:30:18 PM

Looks pretty good, except for a small eyesore (Invision)

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Just kidding.

-[Unknown]

Rpg Cyco · August 20, 2004, 11:40:54 PM

I'm looking forward to this!

- Rpg Cyco

Room11 · August 21, 2004, 04:15:28 AM

looks like an excellent portal solution...

can't wait to test the driver though

Kris · August 21, 2004, 05:00:38 AM

Hope the forum integrates well.

In the demo the forum is nothing but a link. I want a forum with side blocks.

Rpg Cyco · August 21, 2004, 05:38:57 AM

Quote from: Kris on August 21, 2004, 05:00:38 AM
Hope the forum integrates well.

In the demo the forum is nothing but a link. I want a forum with side blocks.

According to this post on the ocPortal forums, he has got it working correctly.

- Rpg Cyco

Chris Graham · August 21, 2004, 07:06:17 AM

The new RC with SMF support has just been released

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As a coincidence, I did get inline forums working properly

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Please direct feedback at our own forums, as I don't really have the time to frequent other ones, thanks.

Kris · August 21, 2004, 11:25:57 AM

* Kris will check this one out one of these days

A.M.A · August 21, 2004, 06:44:53 PM

Good news .. I guess this will be the *first* Portal integrated with SMF.

Grudge · August 21, 2004, 06:55:18 PM

Good to see... hopefully more shall follow!

Oldiesmann · August 25, 2004, 10:57:35 AM

I'm really confused here. The main forum on the site is vBulletin, and the one on the demo site is IPB. I see absolutely nothing about integrating it with SMF, and the inline forums topic (http://forums.ocportal.com/showthread.php?t=549) says nothing about SMF.

Kris · August 25, 2004, 01:07:18 PM

I downloaded the sources and have SMF integrated.
It uses a bridge to combine usertables. You can store the tables of ocportal and smf in the same db or in different ones.

At the moment there is a javascript problem for the inline forums that will be solved in a patch tomorrow or so.
I will dig into the sources for the next few weeks before I decide myself to use it for a production site.

Oldiesmann, when you have somewhere a devforum set up, put the install files of ocportal ina different directory and try installing it. You will be offered to include an existing forum or not during setup.

Springer · August 25, 2004, 02:13:15 PM

I tried it a few days ago and it worked well together from what I tried. But it felt like SMF was just iframed into it, so didn't try much more.

I did like the quick install ability. Upload two files, fill out the setup pages and let it do the rest. If you try ocportal install smf first. Otherwise it won't install with the quick install.

~Tyris~ · September 04, 2004, 01:51:56 PM

well im hoping this works... you see im not on 56k... but you have to upload a 3meg file... now it would really suck if the installation process didn't work after taking the time to upload a 3 meg file.... espescially for 56 and 28kers

~Tyris~ · September 04, 2004, 02:48:29 PM

btw im hoping the portal can share the forums database... i dont want 2 SEPERATE databases for 1 thing....

Kris · September 05, 2004, 02:26:04 AM

Quote from: ~Tyris~ on September 04, 2004, 02:48:29 PM
btw im hoping the portal can share the forums database... i dont want 2 SEPERATE databases for 1 thing....

It can.

Kindred · September 09, 2004, 04:59:07 PM

I have just installed ocPortal with SMF.

I have to say, I like it alot. It's going to take a fair amount of coding to get the themes completely matched.. but I assume that would be the case for any CMS/portal.

The features of ocPortal are cool and seem to merge well with SMF.

And of primary importance to me, the developers at ocPortal respond QUICKLY and efficiently to questions, even when made by people like myself who have not yet registered. (although I definately plan to)

It can be set to use the same DB...
it can also be set to provide inline links for the forums or outline, if that's what you want...

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