Custom portfolio?

[Jelmer]

that's great to hear! I have quite a bit of experience with modding vbulletin, there are already many mods/hacks which you can find at vbulletin.org but nothing specific for what we need here.

[Madclouds]

Well there are obviously many ways to achieve our desiered effect. Jelmer should weight all the variables and pick the solution that best suits his resources. I'll lay out a couple possibilities to start our brain storming.

1) Build it from scratch - In my opinion this would be the best option. EGC doesn't have a fully functioning website, just a kick ass message board. By creating a profileing system from scratch we can design a functional website along the way. This method is obviously the most labor intensive but I think has the highest payoff.

2) Get a template - Jelmer look into PHP-Nuke. It's a fully customizable php website in a box. Just unpack it and configure a few things and everythings done... Much like this message board, the php-nuke development team did a great job of covering everything you could ever need. This option would also take much less time and labor (could probably finish the whole site in 5 hours) And I'm 99% positive they have a profileing section included.

Well... When I started replying I had 3 suggestions in mind... but now I forgot the third... I'll post it when I think of it again.

Thoughts?

Erik

[DAKLOL]

well, we acually were planning on making a whole site rather than just mesage boards, so the first sounds good, how hard would it be though?

[WolF]

In terms of how hard it would be? The planning would be the hardest. We'd have to figure out A. What we need. B. How we'll do it (html, css, java, sql, php) and C. the exact content that's being built. Once that's done, we know the code. It'll just be a matter of time to develop it. I think we should make it from scratch. Make it unique.

[Jelmer]

well, it has to be intergrated with vbulletin in some way surely.
Because we should use the same user database, i think it's possible to create custom pages with the header and footer from vbulletin with custom php code in it so we should look into that.

[CU441ES]

Maybe we could also get a new forum skin, because the one at the moment is a bit stereotypical vbulletin, with all the hard edges and stuff.. I dunno if anyone has any vbulletin skinning experience, so theres always sone free ones that we could modify a bit. Theres a few free ones here, here and here

And if the portfolio worked that would be really coll, and would probably make loads more people come to the site

[Jelmer]

well i'm actually pretty satisified with this one, it doesn't need to look great, it has to be functional and short to load. this one is actually customized, which is better then a standard free template i think.
Let's keep this thread for the portfolio part, of course you can start a new one discussing the skin and any changes.

[Jelmer]

this article is about adding custom pages to vbulletin, might be useful, if i find anything which adds a custom page for each user i'll let you guys know. http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...+for+each+user

[Jelmer]

I've probably found a nice base to start out with, it's a mod which allows you to have a custom page for every user, if we can probably customize it into an portfolio system. I'm sure it will save us a lot of work, anyway, take a look at the thing here.

[Jelmer]

I've attached the mod in a .zip file here, it's mainly php and mysql, if you're interested take a look at the code and see if it's any good.

update: I've just installed the mod and it seems to work fine, now it's time to start customizing it
view my portfolio test page

or just enter this link: http://enjoycg.com/forums/jelmer