Creation of a Second Portal For ezPortal

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This is a tutorial that allows you to create a second portal using Smartor's ezPortal. Hope it's useful.

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## Title: extra portals for ezportal
## Author: q3 tombb87@2c2d.co.uk www.2c2d.co.uk
## Description: This tutorial allows you to create additional portals for ezPortal.
I am presuming you already have ezPortal installed and are running phpBB forums.

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## Installation Level: Easy
## Installation Time: 10 Minutes
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## Files To create: 2 minimum but you can keep on adding portals
## portal2.php
## fetchposts2.php

## extras to create
## portal_body2.tpl


For additional help go to my site www.2c2d.co.uk/forum or Smartor’s http://smartor.is-root.com for help

All copyright for ezPortal goes to Smartor

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Go to your forum files and find “portal.php” copy it and rename it “portal2.php”

Find:

// News Forum ID: separate by comma for multi-forums, eg. '1,2,5'
$CFG['news_forum'] = '1';

change it to whatever number you want it to get posts from. If you do not want this portal to get posts, leave it blank.

Find:

include($phpbb_root_path . 'fetchposts.'.$phpEx);

Change to:

include($phpbb_root_path . 'fetchposts2.'.$phpEx);

Find:

U_READ_FULL' => append_sid('portal.' . $phpEx . '?article=' . $i),

Change to:

U_READ_FULL' => append_sid('portal2.' . $phpEx . '?article=' . $i),
If you are creating a separate look to your first portal:

Create:
Fetchposts2.php

Do this by just copying fetchposts.php and renaming it to fetchposts2.php

If you are creating a separate portal_body.tpl

Copy portal_body.tpl
Change to: portal_body2.tpl

open portal2.php

Find:

$template->set_filenames(array(
'body' => 'portal_body.tpl'

Change to:

$template->set_filenames(array(
'body' => 'portal_body2.tpl'


These are the things I normally edit:


Open: forum/templates/yourstyle/portal_body2.tpl

Find:

<td class="catHead" height="25"><span class="genmed"><b>{L_NAME_WELCOME}</b></span></td>

{L_NAME_WELCOME} is the thing you want to change. So to have “Events” appear on the top of the page, change it to:

<td class="catHead" height="25"><span class="genmed"><b>Events</b></span></td>


Find:

<td class="catHead" height="25"><span class="genmed"><b>{L_ANNOUNCEMENT}

This is if you are getting the portal2.php to fetch posts from your forum. So mine is for events. It should be:

<td class="catHead" height="25"><span class="genmed"><b>Recent events


To create a link to your second portal in the portal_body.tpl

Open: forum/templates/yourstyle/portal_body2.tpl

Find:

<a href="{U_PORTAL}">{L_HOME}</a><br />

<a href="{U_INDEX}">{L_FORUM}</a><br /> <ahref="{U_MEMBERLIST}">{L_MEMBERLIST}</a><br />
<a href="{U_FAQ}">{L_FAQ}</a><br />
<a href="{U_SEARCH}">{L_SEARCH}</a><br /

Now somewhere in there you can add your link. For example mine reads like this:

<a href="{U_PORTAL}">{L_HOME}</a><br />
<ahref="http://www.yoursite..co.uk/forum/portal2.php">Weather</a><br />

<a href="{U_INDEX}">{L_FORUM}</a><br />
<ahref="{U_MEMBERLIST}">{L_MEMBERLIST}</a><br />
<a href="{U_FAQ}">{L_FAQ}</a><br />
<a href="{U_SEARCH}">{L_SEARCH}</a><br /


You can keep on adding these. For my own site it looks like this:

<a href="{U_PORTAL}">{L_HOME}</a><br />
<a href="http://www.onfolkestone.co.uk/forum/portal2.php">Weather</a><br />
<a href="http://www.onfolkestone.co.uk/forum/portal3.php">Events</a><br />
<a href="http://www.onfolkestone.co.uk/forum/portal4.php">Art</a><br />
<a href="http://www.onfolkestone.co.uk/forum/portal5.php">Artists</a><br />
<a href="http://www.onfolkestone.co.uk/forum/portal6.php">Jokes</a><br />
<a href="{U_INDEX}">{L_FORUM}</a><br />
<a href="{U_MEMBERLIST}">{L_MEMBERLIST}</a><br />
<a href="{U_FAQ}">{L_FAQ}</a><br />
<a href="{U_SEARCH}">{L_SEARCH}</a><br /

Remember to update the links in the other portal_body.tpls otherwise you will lose the link in that portal.

You can continue adding portals to the site. Just change the 2 to 3 and so on.

Save and upload all files. End of tutorial.