How about a portal on the main page?

[tesco]

Ive taken a look at the index.php file and it has the code that looks like whats needed. So if you had the index.php from the vb folder and the current main page index.html which is in another folder alltogether are you saying you could insert the code from the php file into the html file and make it into one html file that would update in real time then...

yep that's exactly it.

But i think it might be too hard to get teh code out as it seems to have refrences from other files so i might try and make my own code.

[{I}{K}{E}]

Rossco will first try to install this portal on his pirvate forum. if everything works ok. maybe we will add it for FST

[{I}{K}{E}]

testing went ok

now Rossco is trying 2 install an arcade on the testboard

[Peerzy]

Not to be a cawk or anything but hasnt Rookie been trying to do the Portal and Arcade for like 3 months now, it took Rossco ten minutes. Unless Rookie had just been thinking about doing stuff, you know if you think stuff hard enough it still doesn't happen

[{I}{K}{E}]

Not to be a cawk or anything but hasnt Rookie been trying to do the Portal and Arcade for like 3 months now, it took Rossco ten minutes. Unless Rookie had just been thinking about doing stuff, you know if you think stuff hard enough it still doesn't happen

not 10 minutes.

still working on it.

portal and arcade now work on the test forum. as soon as we see Brian we will ask for FTP access

[tesco]

Not to be a cawk or anything but hasnt Rookie been trying to do the Portal and Arcade for like 3 months now, it took Rossco ten minutes. Unless Rookie had just been thinking about doing stuff, you know if you think stuff hard enough it still doesn't happen

took about half an hour to install each (on my forum, will take longer for this one because i gotta be careful with what i do).
and me and {I}{K}{E} have been tinkering around with the settings in the portal and arcade all afternoon, to see what everything does.

[SeK612]

They're not too hard to do, the arcade anyway (with the portal is being custom coded so some knowledge of PHP is needed to do it) which is a fairly established VB mod.

However this is a pretty big forum. If something goes wrong and downtime ensues it's problematic for the admin. It's even worse if it causes damage to the database.

There are plenty of other things to consider as well, such as the fact that upgrading the forum after modification becomes harder and VB support doesn't cover mods

[Peerzy]

not 10 minutes.

still working on it.

portal and arcade now work on the test forum. as soon as we see Brian we will ask for FTP access

Meh, 10mins, or 30mins as Rossco says, its a damn sight faster than the 2 months (and counting)

[tesco]

btw the arcade looks and works great!
tommorrow, or whenever rookie gives me or {I}{K}{E} ftp access, we will put it on.

[RPerry]

btw the arcade looks and works great!
tommorrow, or whenever rookie gives me or {I}{K}{E} ftp access, we will put it on.

Good news, can't wait to try it out