trainedmonkey

by Jim Winstead Jr.

spent time today looking at some of the various php-based message boards: cthreads, fudforum, l-forum, neoboard, phorum, phpbb, w-agora, and zorum. an impressive lot, although i don't particularly care for web-based message forums. most of them have browser-based install scripts, which work to varying degrees.

except for cthreads, all of these are a whole lot of code. i'm not sure i'd want to use them if i needed to customize them at all. none of them appear to have much support for hooking into a pre-existing user database, which is a little surprising.

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« Sunday, June 30, 2002 @ 3:59pm • Sunday, June 30, 2002 @ 8:47pm »

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" ... none of them appear to have much support for hooking into a pre-existing user database ..." w-agora support that : It has been designed with integration in mind. If you have some basic PHP skills, you can write your own module (just extending a class, w/o hacking the core code) that can use an external user source (LDAP, database,...) Of course, we can do it for you... M.

» Marc (link) » Thursday, July 4, 2002 @ 3:56am

hmm, i think i'm covered on the basic php skills front. i stumbled across the user directory in the w-agora install. looks like w-agora might fit well as the message board application to use in my tutorial.

» jim (link) » Saturday, July 6, 2002 @ 5:44pm

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