Publisher review:ocPortal is a website engine that drives cutting-edge interactive and dynamic sites. ocPortal is website software which drives dynamic and interactive sites; use the quick installer to install ocPortal in minutes, and then after running the simple setup wizard you have a powerful website ready for use!
By providing a wide-range of flexible general-purpose features for you to mix as you need, ocPortal enables you to build a highly personalised site (not just another cloned blog, forum, or portal) for far far less than you'd pay a web design company.ocPortal has full customisability on every level for all its features, yet is designed to be extremely ease to get going and use, so you can get your site going on your own.
Features:
Fantastic support
ocPortal has an absolutely huge amount of documentation, covering just about anything you might want to know, not just about using ocPortal, but about running a website in general. Almost 100 tutorials will guide you through everything from installation, to using ocPortal's features and extending them, to handling social conflict in an online community.We also integrate help right into ocPortal, so you usually won't even need to look for documentation. You'll see inline help almost everywhere except the public area of your website, and also links to our server to view the full tutorials.Full forum integration
We are proud that our website engine supports excellent integration with any of the following major forum systems:
- Invision Board 1.3/2.0
- phpBB 2.0.x
- vBulletin 2.2.x/3.0.x/3.1.x
- Burning Board 2.0.x/2.2.x
- Simple Machine Forum 1.0.x/1.1.x
- WowBB
- XMB
This means that you can easily build an ocPortal website around an existing forum community. You can share the same user logons, share the same usergroups, store and retrieve topic data, share emoticons, and you can display forum statistics - all on your website.Even better though, is that we also have our own excellent integrated forum. This means that you can have a forum and website that are completely one and the same - in-line with the ocPortal philosophy of making all website technology available to you, seamlessly integrated and written to excellent standards.Our forum has some features that are unseen (at the time of writing) in the other big forums, including:
- Personal Topics, and whispering (carry on entirely private conversations, and allow your members to whisper secret messages to each other inside a public topic)
- Important posts (staff may flag posts as important, and members see them as emphasised)
- Post Templates (set up templates for making structured posts, such as bug reports)
- Post history (see the full edit/delete history of topics, posts and members)
- A combined rank/usergroup promotion system (automatically give members increased permission, when they earn it)
- Invites (only allow new members if they've been invited)
- Per-forum rules (set up special forums with special rules, and make sure every user who visits that forum has agreed to those rules)
We also have other killer features found only in the best standalone forums:
- Mass/Multi Moderation (to efficiently moderate a busy forum, or a support forum)
- Multiple usergroup membership, and usergroup leaders (to allow subcommunities on your website)
- Custom Profile Fields (to allow your members to specify extra details about themselves that are special to your website, or their subcommunity)
- An infinitely deep forum hierarchy (so you can have any number of forums, without having a huge forum index)
- Forum-wide announcements (so you can make announcements that are seen across your whole forum)
Our forum also comes with a huge default collection of emoticons (46) and avatars (40) for your communities pleasure.However you look at it, our forum is better than most standalone ones, and completely blows the simplistic forums other website systems have out of the water. And, just to stomp over the remnants of our competition, this excellent forum is a seamless part of the website, not something tacked on with it's own conventions and feature-overlap.You can import data from another forum into our forum too. At the time of writing we support import from:
- Invision Board 1.3/2.0
- phpBB 2.0.x
- vBulletin 3.0.x/3.1.x
- WowBB
Other importers may be created on request, with discounts if we are given access to live data to test out our importers on.So easy to install
All you have to do is to install is upload two files (or get our server to upload them for you), then load one of them up by URL, and then fill in some details. That's it. Apart from typing in a few details and uploading the files, you don't have to do anything overtly technical. The quick-installer takes care of it all automatically.The Setup Wizard makes construction of your website a real breeze. Just launch the wizard after installing ocPortal and you'll be asked a few questions, and in minutes you'll have a highly personalised website.ocPortal comes with ready-made pages (such as site rules, and privacy policies), default catalogues (such as one for a links page), and graphics for your use - the wizard will ask you which you want to use. It might not sound like much, but these little touches will save you hours, yet you still have complete control.You'll also be amazed when the Setup Wizard asks you what colour your website should be, then automatically creates you a beautiful colour scheme around that colour. No more will you need to fiddle around with dozens of CSS colours just to do the basic styling of your website. And, it'll make you a logo too!Blogging, Databases, Galleries, and more
ocPortal has a unique download system that also gives you the ability to give authors their own biography page. You can 'outmode' a download if a newer version of that download is released, directing viewers to the next download. Unlimited categories means that you can create that perfect structure without your creativity being limited.The download system is, however, just one type of content supported by ocPortal. You will be amazed at just how many different kinds of content ocPortal can handle. We also have:
- A news and blogging system (you can even let your members have their own blogs)
- A newsletter system (maintain multiple subscribable newsletters, or just send out messages to usergroups)
- A custom-pages system
- A community database system (akin to a WIKI)
- A 'catalogues' system for storing/serving your own customised database records (this one is particularly amazing and innovative - when you see other systems claim they have a 'Form editor', just laugh because it is a very poor alternative to catalogues)
- A gallery system, for images and videos (and yes, you can even let your members have their own galleries)
- A powerful community calendar system that allows members to organise their events
- Chat rooms, and Instant Messaging
- Images of the day, a great tool for bolstering community engagement
- Polls, for adding that special interactive magic to your website
- Quizzes, Surveys and Competitions, for advanced engagement with your users
- An advanced banner exchange system that allows you to control the banners on your site with fine detail. You can control how often a given banner will appear, or restrict the number of allocated clicks they receive. There is also a 'hit balancing' feature that only shows a banner if someone from that website clicks your banner
ocPortal 8.1.2 is a PHP script for Portal Systems scripts design by ocProducts Ltd.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris and has as system requierments:
GD2 library
PHP 4.2 or higher
MySQL 4.1 or higher
Apache or IIS
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ocPortal is a website engine that drives cutting-edge interactive and dynamic sites.
Requirements:
- GD2 library
- PHP 4.2 or higher
- MySQL 4.1 or higher
- Apache or IIS
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
ocPortal 8.1.2 script details 
