Hack:My portal

I will be updating this documentation soon. Still work in progress.

My Portal is a MediaWiki hack, it is NOT a MediaWiki extension, that allows users to have a custom portal page like MyGoogle, MyYahoo, etc. It is a modified version of Simplortal (simplortal.bzzt.net) .

Description of Simplortal from Simplortal Site:

Simplortal is a portal engine which focuses on simplicity, 
modularity, and being highly configurable, not only for the 
administrator, but also for the end user. Users can log in 
and make their own selection of the content they want to see,
and even (if the administrator allows it) add their own HTML
blocks, RSS feeds, etc.

Note: Most up to date version of this extension can be found at: http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/index.php/Projects

Shannon McNaught (smcnaught) - I am also available on irc.chekmate.org #MediaWiki

ChekMate Technical Focus Group

MW: My Portal
Adds My Portal functionality to MediaWiki
Copyright (C) 2006 Shannon McNaught
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

• http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/simplortal-0-01b.tgz simplortal-0-01b.tgz

• Extract Simplortal-0-01b.tgz to a directory
• Move the simplortal directory to the wiki directory

$db_host = "localhost";
$db_user = "username";
$db_pass = "password";
$db_database = "wiki";

USE wiki;
CREATE TABLE `blocks` (
 `user` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
 `moduleconfig` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
 `row` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
 `col` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
 PRIMARY KEY (`user`,`row`,`col`)
);
CREATE TABLE `moduleconfigs` (
 `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
 `moduletype` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
 `configuration` text,
 PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);
CREATE TABLE `moduletypes` (
 `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
 `name` varchar(20) default NULL,
 `shortname` varchar(20) default NULL,
 `type` varchar(20) default NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);
CREATE TABLE `categories` (
 `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
 `cat` text NOT NULL,
 `num` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
 PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);
INSERT INTO `moduletypes` VALUES (1, 'Raw HTML', 'rawhtml', 'php');
INSERT INTO `moduletypes` VALUES (2, 'RSS feed', 'rss', 'php');
INSERT INTO `moduletypes` VALUES (3, 'iFrame', 'iframe', 'php');

• link is in /wiki/includes/SkinTemplate.php
• Look for

 /* set up the default links for the personal toolbar */

Added:

 $personal_urls['mypage'] = array(
 'text' => "my portal",
 'href' => "/wiki/simplortal"
 );

div.caption
{
}
div.layoutblock
{
}
div.block
{
position:relative;
border:1pxsolidblack;
}
div.blockcaption
{
position:relative;
background-color:#0000A0;
color:white;
font-size:13px;
text-align:left;
height:1.6em!important;
align:top;
width:100%;
font-weight:bold;
}
div.blockcaptiona
{
position:relative;
color:white;
}
div.blockcontent
{
position:relative;
padding:0.3em;
}
.date
{
position:relative;
}
span.edit
{
font-size:2px;
padding:0px;
position:relative;
float:right;
background-color:#0000A0;
}
.table
{
position:relative;
}
.column10
{
position:relative;
}
.column20
{
position:relative;
}
.column21
{
position:relative;
}
.column30
{
position:relative;
}
.column31
{
position:relative;
}
.column32
{
position:relative;
}
.column40
{
position:relative;
}
.column41
{
position:relative;
}
.column42
{
position:relative;
}
.column43
{
position:relative;
}

version 0.01b - initial version

File:Simportal.png

Create a User account on http://www.chekmate.org/wiki/ and click on "my portal" located within the user menu at the top.

• Simplortal Homepage: simplortal.bzzt.net
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/simplortal/ sf.net project page
• The code: http://simplortal.cvs.sourceforge.net/ in CVS

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/metadot/ Metadot (nice but complicated, seems held hostage by a company)
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/hpe/ HPE (nice but complicated, stalled since author continued work under a private license)

• ChekMate Technical Focus Group

• Pages with broken file links