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PHP Forum/Board recommendation

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:44 am
by vigge89
I'm currently developing a community (look at my sig), which i would like to include a forum in. the forum should be intergrated in the main site, so the board should be very easy customizable so I can intergrate profile, login etc..
I don't want a board like phpBB or IPB, becuase they seems to be kinda hard to edit. I am looking for a board with the following requirments:
admin-panel (for user with levels above or at 4, level is loaded from my profile db)
posting topics, replays, etc..
grouping boards (categorys)
no user signup, users log in from my site, and when they visit the board, they are already logged in
"my controls"-panel, but without settings like name, birthday, etc., becuase the profile in the main site conatins this
signature & avatars should be able to be disabled
no images, everything is done in text & css
BBCode should be available (or similar)

If you know a forum-package with those requirements, i would be glad if you replayed with URL to site :D

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:46 am
by vigge89
are there any forum-packages with those requirments?

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:55 am
by twigletmac
People have created a number of themes for both phpBB and IPB and I've seen them integrated quite effectively into sites. Have you looked into their theming? I believe they both use a series of templates that you can modify for your own needs. Otherwise there is vbulletin although that'll cost ya.

Mac

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:31 am
by Nay
IPB would be much better imho. Nevertheless, no images? hmmm. Anyhow, I've done both intergrating phpbb and IPB into my site. I find ipb easier. I had a few headaches with phpbb - only god would know why.

Anyhow, If you plan to use ipb, tell me, I'm almost done writing functions for member log in/out, sessions and all the little necessary stuff to intergrate into my site. Theming ipb is much easier than phpbb. I found it fustrating how importing themes from my localhost to the phpbb on my server is confusing. Ipb, I just import the whole tar and walah.

You 'could' rewrite an intergrated control panel for yourself and have the default control panel redirect to there just incase some one tries to access. Well good luck,

-Nay

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 8:29 am
by vigge89
Ipb would be the choice if I couldn't find anything more "simple".
I'll continue searching, and if you find nice one, tell me ;)

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:52 am
by vigge89
also, is it hard to develop modules for IPB?
becuase if it isn't, i could maybe use IPB to act like a portal, so I can include my own pages, services and shoutbox etc. in IPB....

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:34 pm
by John Cartwright
If you log into phpBB website they talk alot about using it as a portal.

Another option, which is probably what your looking for is
postnuke or php-nuke. They have tons of modules, including one for phpbb which is integrated into your site.

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:39 pm
by vigge89
hmmmm, my visitors want me to keep my site, and just add a forum...
but i need ideas on how to intergrate the forum on the site, what i am looking for is just a feature to be able to post topics, replys and have categorized. nothing else is needed....

there must exist "primitive" ready-to-use forum-packages, I just need to find 'em :/

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:21 pm
by vigge89
ok, found one which seems to fit kinda well into my requirments
http://www.punbb.org/
however, now i need to start the intergration-process, which probably take loooong time :/