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Kiss Portal Engine

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Description

The Kiss Portal Engine is based on the Stargate Portal with all the unnecessary frills removed...

Features include:

The Kiss Engine is fully integrated... (it does not simply add a portal page)...
All blocks (the basic method of collecting and display additional information used by most portals) can be added to all phpBB and Mod pages...
Fully integrated portal with ACP control over all aspects...
Supports blocks on all phpBB pages including pages added by your modifications...
The administrator can assign different blocks to different pages...
Access to Blocks, Menus (down to individual menu items) is set on a group based (one/many)...
Active blocks can be arranges by each user using drag/drop and hide/show...
The entire mod can be disabled with one click...

SQL Queries

Queries depend on the number of block on a give page...
Portal page: (all blocks loaded) 23 queries (includes phpBB queries)...
Index page: (default index blocks) 19 queries (including phpBB queries)...
Block cache times can be be set individually...

Basics Block supported:

Announcements
Bots
Categories
Clock
News (same functionality as announcements)
Last Online
Links (generates a list of random links)
Most Active
Online Users
Recent Topics
Search (supports several selectable engines)
User Information
The Team (displays all teams/members)
Top Posters
Top Referrals
Welcome

Blocks can contain static and variable data...

Additional blocks:
You can add additional blocks by simply uploading the appropriate blocks code, detection is automatic, no install in required...

Mod Blocks: (started 9th Jan 2012)
The following blocks were created for existing mods...

User Blog Mod by EXreaction.
[More to come...]

Menus:

Main navigation Menu
Sub Menu
Links Menu

In development: (these are the portal's own mods but any mod can be added).

Acronyms Mod 100%
Country Flag Mod 100%
Referrals Mod 100%
RSS Mod 100%
Small adds Mod 100%
Youtube Mod 100%
Web Pages Mod (includes ability to edit pages on-line, including welcome message) 80%

Mods are installed using AutoMod and UMIL...

Added to default install:

Local Acronyms (this is not an accronym mod)
*Web Page support

The Future:
The portal has been build with an eye on the future...
In the the next version we intend to make full use of the hook system, mods will install automatically...

Web Pages
You can add user created web pages...
Just upload your html files to the portal common folder, edit one file and add links...
The page can be wrapped, example: portal.php?page=map or displayed as is...
Example of a page wrapped with blocks: (dev site).
http://www.phpbbireland.com/kiss2/portal.php?page=video
http://www.phpbbireland.com/kiss2/porta ... ge=history
Will add an example of web page no wrapped by the portal soon...

Portal Style Edits:
Prosilver and Subsilver2 are automatically updated during installation...
To update other styles go to ACP > Automod, select the Kiss Engine mod and use the option to update your style. Please note, this will only work for styles that conform to prosilver/subsilver2 format...
For other styles you can request a port from stargatestyles.com...

GIT repository:
https://github.com/phpbbireland/k2_phoenix
Mike