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message board integration

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:11 am
by will
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does anyone know of a good message board that generates well formed XHTML pages. By 'well formed' i am refering to syntactically (ie, it authenticates with w3c) as well as logically (complete division of content and style).
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I run a website for a christian rock band that has a message board attached (YaBB SE). I have a seperate authentication system that I wrote a while back that used to do user mgmt for the rest of the site. I need to merge these two so they play together seamlessly. Anyone have suggestions on integrating the user mgmt systems of two seperate applications? i'm sure some people have done this to integrate phpNuke with a message board, or something similar.
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Re: message board integration

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:34 am
by twigletmac
will wrote:<question id="1" difficulty="easy">
does anyone know of a good message board that generates well formed XHTML pages. By 'well formed' i am refering to syntactically (ie, it authenticates with w3c) as well as logically (complete division of content and style).
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Isn't YabbSE XHTML complient? You should be able to modify most forums to use your own XHTML templates.

Mac

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:28 am
by Query
Will,

The board you're looking at seems to generate damn nice XHTML, had a quick browse - this will probably validate as strict and offers a host of styles on demand - also if you check the source, the author of this style suggests that the admin pages make for easy updating of the display code! (I'm assuming that this is why you want to change...) Try http://www.phpbb.com (unless this is a heavy modification should suit your needs)

P.s. I think you should lay off the XML...

Regards

-Q

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:45 pm
by will
while the phpBB output may be completely valid and quite logical, it doesn't completely seperate content from style (specifically the extensive use of tables for the layout).