expert01 Posted November 1, 2005 Posted November 1, 2005 (edited) Active Desktop Portal Beta*New*This is based on tehDesk by BetaGuyGZT. It will soon be a complete PHP desktop portal, giving you everything from news to weather to forum updates. The final version will come with several templates.FeaturesSmarty Templating SystemCompact, low-footprint server and databaseLinks to common folders and programsFirefox style Search Box (needs work, but exists in concept)Control WinAMP and Windows Media Player from your desktopForum plugins (latest topics, number of topics since last visit, new messages) - phpBB, IPB, vBBComing SoonWeather & Weather AlertsLocal Theater ListingsLocal Gas PricesRSS Feeds (including news and blogs)Yahoo, Hotmail, GMail, and AOL integrationRemote Blog PostingCalendarAddress BookNotesToDo/HomeworkBookmarks/LinksAll-in-one desktop, explorer, and web view themesControl EMule, Azureus, and WinAMP from your desktopDisplay Coolmon stats on your desktopShopping ListProblemsBig security risk including many files on separate serversNeed to do a check for including subscriptions - do not include if number of MySQL rows that are enabled is equal to zeroThis is designed primarily on Windows XP, but will be optimised before final release to run on Windows NT/95 and up with IE 4 and up. It uses Windows built-in Active Desktop technology to give you a dynamic portal. Might not work on Windows XP x64.Alright, since I just got this mostly bug free, I decided to post it. I went through and converted all HTML files to templates, fixed some errors in pages (</body> before <body>, <body> after page content, text size, etc.), organized the pages, changed all the links (to work from a server instead of the local computer), and some other misc tweaks. I also, of course, had to set up the server and MySQL on ports and addresses people likely won't use (127.5.1.32:50386 for the main files, port 50387 for MySQL, and 127.0.0.1:50388 for the web server interface), and get the registry tweaks figured out. InstallIf you are upgrading, first run \windows\web\server\Stop.cmd. Download the file, extract to your \Windows\Web directory, execute Active Desktop Portal.reg (but NOT the other registry patch, that will likely screw up your PC), run Url-run-Setup.exe in server\htdocs\KickerFiles, and run Start.cmd in the Server directory. MySQL and the web server have been set up to start silently with your PC (and named to be easily recognizable in Task Manager). The page appears as an active desktop object filling the entire desktop, hides your icons, and locks web content on your desktop. The patch will also add tweaks to help enable Web View in folders (hopefully a future feature), and disables the IE click noise. To install the ADP script for your forum, upload the adp folder in the server\forum mods\ folder to your phpBB or IPB directory (i.e. mysite.com/phpbb2/adp/adp.php should exist). Open subscribe.php to subscribe to your forum. Feel free to look the code over.Download (Nov. 4, 2005)LinksHome PagephpBB subscription modIPB subscription mod Edited November 4, 2005 by expert01
nospoon Posted November 2, 2005 Posted November 2, 2005 thx m8dang I hate rapidshare...anyone else? Here's a hack around the timer. After clicking on that free button when you see the timer start, put this and hit go in your browser's addressbar--BOOYA!:javascript: c=0; void(0);
expert01 Posted November 3, 2005 Author Posted November 3, 2005 (edited) Updated topic. Latest version, includes info on subscribing to a PHPBB Forum Edited November 3, 2005 by expert01
expert01 Posted November 4, 2005 Author Posted November 4, 2005 I've finished the server-side script that supports IPB subscriptions.
expert01 Posted November 4, 2005 Author Posted November 4, 2005 Updated new download. Has IPB and PHPBB server side scripts, and it works correctly with no or multiple forum subscriptions.
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