e107 as a personal or whole site portal

by Sapphire (May 2, 2005)

I spent this weekend cleaning up my place, organizing my life, that sort of thing. Sometimes you reach a critical point where the clutter is slowing you down enough that you’d be better off stopping work until you get it under control. Then you can work faster than ever.

It was in doing all this that I realized I needed a personal portal. All I needed was one that would show me headlines from newsfeeds and give me a nice place to put all my links. For general information, I use a simple PHPBB forum that only I can access. The one I’d been using was kinda wonky on newsfeeds. And after hours of searching, I reazlied all the ones in Fantastico had drawbacks I couldn’t live with, and most of the ones at Open Source CMS did, too. Then I found one that suited me.

More than that - it improves my whole setup. A very capable, free, open-source portal with PHPBB built right in: e107. For me, it’s perfect: I can put my old forum stuff into it, and have everything in one neat database, at one simple address.

Then I got to thinking: I have a PHPBB forum on another site. Maybe I should plonk e107 onto it, and integrate the forum. I’m going to try it out by setting it all up in a different directory on my server, see how it goes. I’ll let you know.

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