Modification Name: ubb_portal.pl - A Poor Man's UBB Portal
Author(s): Mike Bobbitt
Description: ubb_portal.pl is designed to work with a UBB content island. It reads through the posts listed in an HTML content island (styled or unstyled work OK), and generates a "news" page that can be included in a portal. As the content island is automatically updated by UBB, so is the news page.
Demo: http://Army.ca/main.php Requirements: UBB 6.x, using Content Islands, access to crontab or scheduled tasks
Download Link: http://Perl.Bobbitt.ca/ubb_portal Notes: No UBB modifications required. This script runs standalone, reading the content islands created by UBB and generating a "news" page that can be included in your portal.
Works with both recent topic and recent post CIs and can be configured to truncate long posts (with ...). Properly updates Graemlin links to work, and won't truncate in the middle of an HTML tag. A sample style sheet is included, to get things going.
In the demo link above, the centre colum ("Army.ca News") is the sample output.
