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  • Pedja
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2004
    • 329
    #1

    Suggest forum script

    I tried a lot but still have not found a winner. I f I do not suceed I will have to make my own and that takes time.

    I am not very keen on options. I need simple forum for reasonable low number of users. DO not need fancy options.

    But. what I need is an option to integrate forum into my site meaning my site already has user database and authentication system and I need forum to use that authentication and not to force users to open paralel accounts on forum part of the site.

    Any suggestions?
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    • Jonathan
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2004
      • 1229
      #2
      Have you looked at PunBB or MiniBB?
      "How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
      - C

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        • Frank Hagan
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2004
          • 724
          #3
          Originally posted by Pedja
          But. what I need is an option to integrate forum into my site meaning my site already has user database and authentication system and I need forum to use that authentication and not to force users to open paralel accounts on forum part of the site.

          Any suggestions?
          That's a tough one ... I've seen plenty of scripts to make a forum's authentication system into a whole site's "portal", but not the other way around. There are a few forums that have been adapted to work with some of the common CMS like Nuke, PostNuke, Xoops, etc., but it always involves quite a bit of coding to the forum software.

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            • Jonathan
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2004
              • 1229
              #4
              I'd suggest trying to build your own.. probably the best bet.
              Its actually very easy, I thought it was hard but it isn't.

              A good example is: Try to make a "multi-blog" blog system... each
              user gets a blog, i.e. blog.php?blog=user and so forth.

              You go to the page, you see a list of articles; click to read, below
              you have all the comments where $id = $news_id or whichever.

              Very simply, quickly can turn into a simple forums script
              @least, it is for me, if I could ever stop being lazy and finish it
              "How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
              - C

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                • Pedja
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 329
                  #5
                  Jonatahan, thanks for the tip. It seems authors of miniBB are just working on thsi problem. They are going to make it easy to use external authentication for this forum - exactly what I need.

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                    • Jonathan
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 1229
                      #6
                      Glad to see MiniBB is good for you.
                      "How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
                      - C

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                        • bhills
                          Member
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 75
                          #7
                          Check out PunBB at www.punbb.org.

                          I haven't used it, yet. But some people like it a lot. It uses few resources.

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