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the_eggwhiteAlternate messageboard software...
Since it looks like the glitch in my current messageboard software is never going to get fixed (alas, Vanilla's great in most ways, but doesn't play well with sites where members need to be in multiple groups - and the plugin for it doesn't fix it). Since I can't bring myself to invest the time to create my own forum code (I could do it, but it'd take me time that I'd rather spend doing other stuff), I'm looking around for other free forum software to use. It needs to run happily on an IIS based server which can cope with asp or php happily, and has MySQL to hand - it can handle other stuff too, but I'd prefer to be able to hack around with it, and I can cope with those pretty well.
Either that, or I need to fix the multiroles extension for vanilla, and my PHP isn't really up to it unless I spend ages doing that too.
So far, the software I have on my (growing) shortlist is as follows:
MiniBB - http://www.minibb.net/
BBpress - http://bbpress.org/
Both of these would require some tweaking to get the kind of thing I'm after, with MiniBB looking slightly more promising interface-wise. I still like the Vanilla approach better, and think it works better for low-traffic boards, but it looks like it'd be pretty easy to make minibb behave in a pretty similar way. BBpress looks a lot easier to play with the visuals, though, and comes with built in antispam gubbins if I care to use it.
Whichever I use, I'll need to work on integrating it with my login system for the rest of the site as well...
This is mainly here as a note to myself, but I'm interested in comments about this from others if they've got knowledge or experience in this field!
Since it looks like the glitch in my current messageboard software is never going to get fixed (alas, Vanilla's great in most ways, but doesn't play well with sites where members need to be in multiple groups - and the plugin for it doesn't fix it). Since I can't bring myself to invest the time to create my own forum code (I could do it, but it'd take me time that I'd rather spend doing other stuff), I'm looking around for other free forum software to use. It needs to run happily on an IIS based server which can cope with asp or php happily, and has MySQL to hand - it can handle other stuff too, but I'd prefer to be able to hack around with it, and I can cope with those pretty well.
Either that, or I need to fix the multiroles extension for vanilla, and my PHP isn't really up to it unless I spend ages doing that too.
So far, the software I have on my (growing) shortlist is as follows:
MiniBB - http://www.minibb.net/
BBpress - http://bbpress.org/
Both of these would require some tweaking to get the kind of thing I'm after, with MiniBB looking slightly more promising interface-wise. I still like the Vanilla approach better, and think it works better for low-traffic boards, but it looks like it'd be pretty easy to make minibb behave in a pretty similar way. BBpress looks a lot easier to play with the visuals, though, and comes with built in antispam gubbins if I care to use it.
Whichever I use, I'll need to work on integrating it with my login system for the rest of the site as well...
This is mainly here as a note to myself, but I'm interested in comments about this from others if they've got knowledge or experience in this field!
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2007-02-28 10:54 (UTC)no subject
2007-02-28 10:57 (UTC)Then there is little hope for me!