| Can I / should I try doing this with FUDforum? [message #27469] |
Fri, 09 September 2005 07:27  |
headspin
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Hi, I haven't done anything web-related in years, even though I was right there with C, Perl and CGI 10 years ago. Now I'd like to start a personal web site, and I'm not really sure if I can do what I want with software like FUDforum or maybe another type.
What I want is a way for me to post articles and have people respond to them - close to a blog. However...
* I'm not interested in an index page - the articles may make no sense when viewed in chronological order; I can write a page that lists them all in logical order, with links to the right pages.
* I want to have a view that only shows the article (and maybe a number of replies, click here to view) and never directly show the other forums or articles.
* Except for that forum which shouldn't typically be accessed directly (only for the main page) I still want to have other forums and give users the normal forum abilities - create threads, respond to each other in the threads or in PMs, etc.
Can I do this with FUDforum (or maybe with similar software)? Is there maybe some other type of software that's better suited to my needs?
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| Re: Can I / should I try doing this with FUDforum? [message #27487 is a reply to message #27469] |
Fri, 09 September 2005 14:02  |
Ilia
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if you want a blogging software you really should use a blogging software like s9y for example. A forum CAN be modified and adjusted to very closely resemble a blog, the basic functionality, post mesages and have people reply to them is common...
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| Re: Can I / should I try doing this with FUDforum? [message #27514 is a reply to message #27487] |
Sat, 10 September 2005 00:17 |
headspin
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Here's the problem: a blog and a forum have a lot - almost everything - in common: the need to register users, verify them, let them post comments, moderate comments, etc etc. It's just a small part - who creates the articles, how they're connected, and how the list of articles is viewed - that's different. If the system is flexible enough, I could create some kind of 'blog article view (with comments)' and 'blog article view (without comments)' for a forum thread, and be almost done. If not... I need to find a forum and blog that work in tandem (single registration / single login, look and feel as close as makes sense).
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| Re: Can I / should I try doing this with FUDforum? [message #27536 is a reply to message #27514] |
Sun, 11 September 2005 17:27 |
Ilia
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Well, FUDforum provides APIs from nearly every operation you can think of (look inside the scripts/ directory) so it'd be easily integretable with another app. That said you can use that very same API to use the forum as an engine and blog-like data presentation layer.
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