Frontpage

The purpose of this MOD is to build a front page based on the content of the forums that you select.

There's a new version of phpBB Frontpage that fixes some issues with shadow's topics and some CSS propierties. Installation file as been modified to better suit phpBB standard installation file.

Download link is here.

Alternatively if you don't wanna install prosilver special edition, you can download the mod with the style bundled into it from here ( requires only prosilver ), but take in mind after you have copied the files, you need to navigate to ACP-Styles-Themes and refresh theme data

There are two bundled BBCodes ( besides the ones from phpBB and the ones you might have added ) that phpBB Frontpage recognises, they are useful for outputting the webpages and they are

frontpage: This is used to isolate Frontpage category description from phpBB forum description, so while you browse the forums you don't see a long text and instead a very short description.

to add them, go to ACP > posting > BBCodes and add a new one with the BBCode Usage as

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[frontpage]{TEXT}[/frontpage]

and the Html replacement as

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<span></span>

this way its not shown while browsing the forums and you have two different descriptions for the same category, one for the frontpage and the other one for the phpbb forums. Below an image that might clarify this


preview: This is used to truncate topics in a predefined way when display type is continuous mode, instead of counting chars and getting the risk that a topic is cut in the middle of a word or somewhere you don't want, you might specify where to cut placing the text that will be displayed as a preview with the

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[preview]this a just a preview[/preview]

. Now its up to you if you want to Hide that preview from the topic or not, the first case your copy the same code as for the frontpage BBCode otherwise just use this one for displaying it in the topic

go to ACP > posting > BBCodes and add a new one with the BBCode Usage as

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[preview]{TEXT}[/preview]

and the Html replacement as

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{TEXT}

.

I hope this little tutorial clarifies the usage of the bundled BBCodes, please feel free to comment this topic

As for any upgrade or MOD installation, you should back up all files so in case something goes wrong you can easily revert the changes

Upgrading from a 2.x.x version to 2.0.3
If you're upgrading from a previous version of frontpage on the 2.x.x branch, only replace the files with the new ones, clear cache and everything will be ok. Otherwise keep reading

Upgrading from a 1.x.x version to 2.0.3

As there were several improvements on the 2.x.x branch, SQL changes are needed, paste this code under phpMyAdmin to reflect new changes into database

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ALTER TABLE `phpbb_topics` DROP `topic_frontpage`;
DELETE FROM `phpbb_config` WHERE `config_name` = 'frontpage_topics';
DELETE FROM `phpbb_config` WHERE `config_name` = 'frontpage_discuss';
INSERT INTO `phpbb_config` (`config_name`, `config_value`, `is_dynamic`) VALUES
    ('frontpage_phpbb', '0', 0),
    ('frontpage_preview_chars', '0', 0),
    ('frontpage_enable_anonymous_voting', '0', 0),
    ('frontpage_default_sort', '0', 0),
    ('frontpage_default_sorting_order', '0', 0),
    ('frontpage_default_display', '0', 0),
    ('frontpage_reverse_categories_display', '', 0),
    ('frontpage_reverse_categories_sort', '', 0),
    ('frontpage_reverse_categories_sorting_order', '', 0),
    ('frontpage_exclude_categories', '', 0);

Next step is to remove the files not longer needed, for that remove all this files from the previous installation

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package/index.php
package/config.php
package/.htaccess
package/phpbb3/adm/style/acp_frontpage.php
package/phpbb3/includes/acp/info/acp_frontpage.php
package/phpbb3/includes/acp/acp_frontpage.php
package/phpbb3/includes/frontpage/bar.php
package/phpbb3/includes/frontpage/functions.php
package/phpbb3/includes/frontpage/footer.php
package/phpbb3/includes/frontpage/header.php
package/phpbb3/language/en/acp/frontpage.php
package/phpbb3/language/en/frontpage.php
package/phpbb3/styles/prosilver/template/frontpage_header.html
package/phpbb3/styles/prosilver/template/frontpage_index.html
package/phpbb3/styles/prosilver/template/frontpage_bar.html
package/phpbb3/styles/prosilver/template/frontpage_footer.html
package/phpbb3/styles/prosilver/theme/frontpage.css

Now refer to "phpBB Frontpage.xml" installation instructions and start just after the SQL statements, with the "File Copy" procedures, the rest of the installation is the same as for a new installation.

Here are a few screenshots of the frontpage in action, on a fake board inspired by wikipedia and greek gods

Today I've released a new version of phpBB Frontpage that correct some bugs with css propierties and PHP Notices.

Download link is here

A new version of phpBB Frontpage has been released, this version fixes some issues with templates and css properties

Download link is here

Almost a year after the first version was released here it comes a totally updated version of the Frontpage, almost built from a scratch with several things that has been updated, added, deleted. This is a major update of the system, now supports almost everything that is supported on phpBB3 and adds some custom things that come handy when creating a frontpage of your forums.

Now supports

UTF-8 Support
BBCode
Custom BBCode
HTML in posts
Smilies/Emoticons
Quoting
Word Censors
Polls
Attachments
Automatic Image Thumbnails
Multiple Attachments
Attachment Placement
Database Query Caching
Template Caching
Categories
URL Link Redirect Forums
Subforums
Topic Sorting
URL rewrite for topics and categories
Blog like message display
Permalink for topics
Pagination for topics/posts
Bultin Sitemap
Enable/Disable frontpage switch
login integration with phpBB
Reply topics in frontpage
Anonymous poll voting

you may download this mod from here