Topic: Moving to Simple Portal

[MazdaClubTR]

Hi,

For the last (almost ) 3 years we have been using SMF and TP in our production environment and started considering a change as soon as SMF 2.0 is released.

As others have complaint the current portal development  is acting slowly on adapting to SMF 2.0 and mostly because of this we are considering SP as the replacement.

It hasnt been much since we have installed SP but I would like to ask a few questions about the current mods we are using and how they will be affected ;

We currently have ;

* Ad Management
* SEO4SMF ( pitty that it is discontinued )
* SMF Gallery Pro

I am aware that SEO4SMF can not be run on SMF 2.0 and I doubt any update will be done which means I will have to replace it with something but Ad Management and SMF Gallery Pro are obligatory for my site.

Have these mods been ever tested with SP and is there any clue how they might be affected ?

[Nathaniel]

If you are referring to the gallery below?
http://www.smfhacks.com/smf-gallery-pro.php

That mod should work fine with SimplePortal, although I don't believe that our Gallery block currently supports that particular Gallery.

The only problem with removing the SEO4SMF mod, is that it will mean google has to reindex your site. Not too much of a pain, but it will be necessary anyway.

[MazdaClubTR]

Yes I am referring to SMFHacks' Gallery. The support of Gallery block wont be much of a problem. TP doesnt have a gallery block but we have put one using ssi_galleryrandom() function.

You are right about SEO4SMF. After removing we will have to wait for the reindexing. Actually it will be better cause we will remove the /forum subfolder and correct a mistake we have done at the beginning.

I have read you are developing the article part in 2.4 . As far as I have seen currently it can not be seperate articles but have to be forum messages. If you will be having seperate articles do you consider friendly urls ?

[Nathaniel]

I have read you are developing the article part in 2.4 . As far as I have seen currently it can not be seperate articles but have to be forum messages. If you will be having seperate articles do you consider friendly urls ?

We are looking at adding forum independant articles to 2.4, as you said, currently articles are attached to forum posts.

What exactly do you mean by friendly urls? We might consider change some urls for the inbuilt SMF 'Search engine friendly URLs' setting.

Using pages as an example, the urls usually look like this:
www.forum.com/index.php?page=pagename
Is this the sort of url that you are refering to? (below)
www.forum.com/index.php/page,pagename.html

[MazdaClubTR]

Yes it looks like what you have written.

Currently, the url of the articles in my production site includes the subject of it as ;

..../welcome-p3.html

if we consider the article subject to be "welcome" and if it will be in SP as ;

www.forum.com/index.php/page,welcome.html

than it means you will be doing what I am looking for

[locutusweb]

What exactly do you mean by friendly urls? We might consider change some urls for the inbuilt SMF 'Search engine friendly URLs' setting.

Using pages as an example, the urls usually look like this:
www.forum.com/index.php?page=pagename
Is this the sort of url that you are refering to? (below)
www.forum.com/index.php/page,pagename.html

That would be very nice...

[Nathaniel]

Okay, I have added it as a feature on the ProjectTracker, to consider for SP 2.4:
http://simpleportal.net/index.php?issue=292.0