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[eivindlt]

Hi!
I'm going to make a community here in Norway, for orienteering runners. I want it to have these functions:
- Each member has their own personal mini-site/presentation (WYSIWYG editable?)
- Each member have their own guestbook, easy to administrate
- PM (Personal Messaging) Maybe I can use the PM in the forums?
- Forum (IPB, phpBB?)
.. and further ...

Which forum is the easiest to integrate in the community? So that you can log in to your presentation/guestbook AND the forums at once? I don't want the forum to be another part of the community, it shall be integrated fully!

It's important that the community can be upgraded manually, with special functions for orienteering runners. I can use special software (community scripts based on IPB or phpBB), but I don't think it will do good enough. It's hard to make own functions with those scripts.

Questions:
Which forum is the best to integrate and make own tempates on?
- IPB
- phpBB
- SMF

Should I use special community/portal scripts?
- phpNUKE
- e107
- Does Joomla! work for this purpose?

Tutorials, explaining how to make a portal/community?

Thanks for the support

Edited by eivindlt, 06 November 2005 - 05:06 AM.

[Jamie Huskisson]

IPB, as it already has its own portal, and is easy to work with if you know what your doing

[Squid]

Indeed, but phpnuke isn't bad either, although it works with phpBB forums.

[eivindlt]

Jay, on Nov 6 2005, 10:14 AM, said:

IPB, as it already has its own portal, and is easy to work with if you know what your doing

OK, but does IPB have the functions I listed above? Or must I code it all myself?

It will be a lot of coding and debugging to change the member profile page from a list of member info to a fully customizable presentation i think...?

Squid, on Nov 6 2005, 10:32 AM, said:

Indeed, but phpnuke isn't bad either, although it works with phpBB forums.

I tried phpNUKE, thought it was too standard. In fact, I'd like a more special and individually coded community

Edited by eivindlt, 06 November 2005 - 06:57 AM.

[saferwaters]

Well, code it yourself! Took me about a week or two to get the hang of PHP and MySQL, and you can customise it to absolutely whatever you want. You can also code your own forums and integrate it perfectly, however I've heard of something like a 'bridging' program that can integrate some forums with sites. Not too sure on it though.

[Donna]

With IPB you can do all of that already even add a CMS into it.

As for the guestbook thing if I was you I'd go with IPB Blog component.

[eivindlt]

Thnx Donna

But if I code the community in two parts:
1. Forum (Forum, PM)
and
2. Presentation, guestbook

.. how do I make a registration and login-script that's registering and login to both parts at the same time?

[Squid]

In that case, you should either code it yourself or go with Invision. Coding it yourself could take a while, so I'd suggest you take Invision

[Donna]

eivindlt, on Nov 7 2005, 05:36 AM, said:

Thnx Donna

But if I code the community in two parts:
1. Forum (Forum, PM)
and
2. Presentation, guestbook

.. how do I make a registration and login-script that's registering and login to both parts at the same time?

The Portal comes with the Forum, and its all included.

IPB is also releasing Invision Power Dynamic combining ease of use with the complete freedom to create your site however you choose, atm its still in development stages but as I mentioned in my first post everything you want to do you can do now.

I will also add IPB is not free it requires a paid yearly licence.

[eivindlt]

Donna, on Nov 6 2005, 04:47 PM, said:

eivindlt, on Nov 7 2005, 05:36 AM, said:

Thnx Donna

But if I code the community in two parts:
1. Forum (Forum, PM)
and
2. Presentation, guestbook

.. how do I make a registration and login-script that's registering and login to both parts at the same time?

The Portal comes with the Forum, and its all included.

IPB is also releasing Invision Power Dynamic combining ease of use with the complete freedom to create your site however you choose, atm its still in development stages but as I mentioned in my first post everything you want to do you can do now.

I will also add IPB is not free it requires a paid yearly licence.

Thnx Donna and Squid.

I think Invision looks too "forumish", if you know what I mean. Alright alright, I can edit the templates But that is also requiring an awful lot of coding

A buddy is now joining the project. If we're two, the site will be finished faster

I think maybe I'll go for an IPB forum and the rest "self-coded". But how do I, as I said in another post, make the registration and login/out integrated with IPB?