what is tinyportal?

[billy2]

am I being incredibly numb here?

I see in SMF mod site - Tiny Portal.

what is TP - a different version of SMF??

**You never understand until you ask the question**

Cheers
Billy

[IchBin]

I promise, searching this site will not harm you.
http://docs.tinyportal.co.uk/index.php/topic,5.html

[billy2]

Many thanks IchBin,
I did a search and was faced with 23 pages of results - I am just lazy.

Cheers
Billy

[billy2]

So............

If I installed TP - what happens to my SMF forum?

How will TP integrate?

Thanks if you have time

Billy

[G6Cad]

Cant be lazy if you want to try out tinyportal on your SMF, it's just a mod you install though the package manager, but you will have loads of fun things at your fingertips when you have it installed.

You get what you see on this site, side block,. articles, downloads, shoutbox etc  all the around things on SMF
It wraps inside SMF and have the administration inside aswell, so it will look the very same, except you have a lot more content to play with

[billy2]

Hi G6,
I spend my sad life watching my forum - dont know what I am expecting to see but it has taken over my life.

Will TP cope with Loon themes do you know, or will I end up delving into index.templates again?

[G6Cad]

If you install TP V1 all themes will work with small tweeks ( like adding a forum button and a few styles in style.css file )

TP V098 is a diffrent story, it demands more usage of SMF source files while TP V1 are more on it's own sort to speak, it holds it's own layers etc..

Bets way to know what you are getting your self into is to install SMF1.1.8 on a subdir on your host, and then install the TP V1.0.5 or 6 through the package manager and start play with it, you will learn a ton by simly play with the settings and see what you have at your fingertips

[billy2]

Many thanks - will set about that in the morning - subject to hangover of course!!

Cheers for your patience
Billy