I have a site and want to add a forum, I am toying with the idea of using an existing forum and building it into my application however I have a few issues:
1, How much control will I have:
a) I need to use my own login setup although it does use the Authentication cookie
b) I want to be able to display a list of new topics on my home page
c) I want to use parts of the user profile from my site on the forum
2, how do they integrate, ie will I get source code and add their controllers, views, etc to my current project?
I am sure I have forgotten something but any advice would be appriciated.
Based on my experiences, here are my suggestion list:
- The main thing is that you must have source code of the forum to integrate with your site.
1. If you have the source code then you can have full control (pay attention for the license and copyright from original owner)
a). You can get rid forum login page and duplicate how the forum handle authentication in your site then you can redirect users to forum page.
b). Well this need you to find out how the forum generate the data and put it on your site.
c). This of course need to learn how the forum code workflow design to be able to modify it.
2. It doesnt need to integrate completely, you can just point link to forum url , consider it as just another link.
Thanks for the information, the more I think about it the more I think i will build my own.
I need very few of the functions of a main forum, and the ones I do need to integrate with other areas of the site.
Very few of the current forums seem to have excellent intergartion with exisiting sites to really integrate, they all seem to sit as a stand alone application.
EnenDaveyBoy
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Forums issues
Feb 08, 2013 08:23 AM|LINK
Hi
I have a site and want to add a forum, I am toying with the idea of using an existing forum and building it into my application however I have a few issues:
1, How much control will I have:
a) I need to use my own login setup although it does use the Authentication cookie
b) I want to be able to display a list of new topics on my home page
c) I want to use parts of the user profile from my site on the forum
2, how do they integrate, ie will I get source code and add their controllers, views, etc to my current project?
I am sure I have forgotten something but any advice would be appriciated.
Rajneesh Ver...
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Re: Forums issues
Feb 08, 2013 08:27 AM|LINK
You can try YetAnother forum (Open source)
http://yetanotherforum.net/
See some others: http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/categories.aspx?category=Forums
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EnenDaveyBoy
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Re: Forums issues
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css-chlukito
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Re: Forums issues
Feb 15, 2013 06:20 AM|LINK
Hi,
Based on my experiences, here are my suggestion list:
- The main thing is that you must have source code of the forum to integrate with your site.
1. If you have the source code then you can have full control (pay attention for the license and copyright from original owner)
a). You can get rid forum login page and duplicate how the forum handle authentication in your site then you can redirect users to forum page.
b). Well this need you to find out how the forum generate the data and put it on your site.
c). This of course need to learn how the forum code workflow design to be able to modify it.
2. It doesnt need to integrate completely, you can just point link to forum url , consider it as just another link.
Please 'Mark as Answer' if this post helps you.
EnenDaveyBoy
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Re: Forums issues
Feb 15, 2013 07:45 PM|LINK
I need very few of the functions of a main forum, and the ones I do need to integrate with other areas of the site.
Very few of the current forums seem to have excellent intergartion with exisiting sites to really integrate, they all seem to sit as a stand alone application.