Re: A forum without a portal is like pizza without cheese
Reply #9 –
You already have the forum, why do you want/need an article system?
Like Norv would say, you just have to set a different theme for a board and that's all (and you set the permissions to "no-reply" to cut down the issue of the first post not displayed on each page (otherwise it is just the matter of retrieve one more message from the database at each page load, nothing scary...it may even be possible without code edits on Elk/2.1, since there is a hook somewhere around there, don't remember the details)).
If you want to hide that board from the normal board/messageindex of SMF, you make it child-board of a board regular members are not allowed to view and you have your forum clean.
You can already fool the system!
In the worst case you (in the sense of "someone", not you directly, I know you are a lazy designer) can code an action to show results of a certain board kept invisible (i.e. disallow) to everybody and mimic an "article" or similar things.
And that would also have the gigantic advantage to allow to get results from searches on both posts and articles at the same time.
Of course unless you with "article" mean something completely different that I have no idea about, and if so:
emanuele needs more details.
That's not the case for almost any portal out there: all the current portals have a separate permission that may allow other groups to be able to add blocks or articles in php, that's something I highly dislike.