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Development => Feature Requests => Topic started by: techprince on October 31, 2008, 10:02:03 PM

Title: SMF Articles Integration
Post by: techprince on October 31, 2008, 10:02:03 PM

It would be great if Simple Portals Articles integrates with SMF Articles Mod. Since its a complete Articles Directory Mod, Simple Portal will be a complete addition if they introduced this integration

Title: Re: SMF Articles Integration
Post by: Nathaniel on October 31, 2008, 10:53:53 PM

Articles are one of the features which SimplePortal is looking at improving. I supose that having some sort of integration with the Articles mod should be possible. :)

Title: Re: SMF Articles Integration
Post by: zerog12avity on March 14, 2009, 06:25:41 PM

Has this integration taken place yet? I want be able to add certain SMF Articles to my SP portal in addition with my SP articles.

Title: Re: SMF Articles Integration
Post by: [SiNaN] on April 03, 2009, 02:20:13 AM

No and I doubt there will be any. You can display your SMF Articles mod article on your portal using Custom PHP blocks. SimplePortal will have the articles module as developed as SMF Articles mod.

Title: Re: SMF Articles Integration
Post by: willerby on April 08, 2009, 07:06:59 AM

Quote from: [SiNaN] on April 03, 2009, 02:20:13 AM

No and I doubt there will be any. You can display your SMF Articles mod article on your portal using Custom PHP blocks. SimplePortal will have the articles module as developed as SMF Articles mod.

This seems to contradict this post http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=1727.msg12854#msg12854 (http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=1727.msg12854#msg12854)

Anybody know how to cerate a basic PHP block that will show 5 random articles from SMF Articles while the SP Articles section is developed?

Title: Re: SMF Articles Integration
Post by: Nathaniel on April 08, 2009, 07:15:56 AM

willerby,
The developers will decide which blocks/features are going to be added to SimplePortal. While a customizer might make a block for that mod, it may not actually get included in the main package because it conflicts with the area that SimplePortal is moving into.

I am making a block for the SMF Articles Mod which has the same template as the normal SimplePortal articles, so they will appear the same. Whether or not that is included in the next version of SP remains to be seen.

Also, even if there is a block added for the SMF Articles Mod, it is very unlikely that it will be integrated any more into the SP Articles areas.

Title: Re: SMF Articles Integration
Post by: willerby on April 08, 2009, 07:31:00 AM

Thanks LHVWB, I guess I didn't appreciate the difference between a block and an integrated standard block within SP.

I'd like to switch to SP Articles but currently have over 200 complex SMF articles with links, images and loads of BBCode formatting. If I could find an easy way of just shifting them across it would make life a lot easier. Not a huge fan of SMF Articles but permission based content is a part of my site.

Just need to be patient I guess!

EDIT: Managed to find a way to select random articles - see http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=1727.msg13017#msg13017 (http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=1727.msg13017#msg13017)