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Some questions about phpBB

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:25 am
by svenlind
Hi, i am building a forum for a research project and have some questions about the different forum software that are available.

The forum will be for a small number (around 200) of invited people and will not be open to the public.
There will only be two subforums, and a user will only have access to one of them.
In addition to the forums all users will write a diary type blogg, this will only be avilable to the administrators and the user himself. These diarys will probably be encrypted in the database to make them as secure as possibly.

I am looking att phpBB to do this but i realise that i will have to code the diary bit by myself most likely. How easy is it to make extensions like these to phpBB? Are there any other forum software i should look at? There are some money in the project so i am not ruling out buying some software, but if i can use free open-source i prefer it.

(Sorry for the bad english, its not my first language.)

Re: Some questions about phpBB

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 9:41 am
by pickle
Extensions are a pain in the butt to write for phpBB, because it's not built to be extensible. MyBB is much easier to extend.

It might be easiest though, to have 2 bits of software (a forum and a blog), and tie their authentication together.