Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/21/05 11:17

Ryan A wrote:
> Hey guys (and girl...as we have one on the list...(that i know of)),
>
> Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify
> or
> a tutorial for creating a forum
> or
> URLs/Classes etc to help me create a simple forum?
>
> I checked on google but I couldnt find any tutorials or code, went to
> hot-scripts and saw a _c r a p l o a d_ of forums (for free and otherwise)

rather overwhelming isn't it.

> but I have a client who insists I build him a forum which must fall
> _exactly_
> to his specifications and work of our currently registered users database.

do you have a list of specifications? i.e. becareful you don't start chasing
a moving target! sounds like taking a solid existing forum tool and hacking
it so that it uses your own user DB is the way to go - purely from a
feasability perspective.

I'm sorry I can't really recommend one, I have experiencing doing a total
hack job on phpbb which was successful but I don't really like the codebase
so I wouldn't recommend it exactly!

>
> Worse scenario, I will dl a few of the forums from hotscrpts and go through
> each of their code...but I would like to avoid that if anyone can give me a
> better option.
>
>
>
> 2nd question
> I will need a kind of "client editor" for when people write their messages
> into the forum,
> eg: make this bold and that italics and that centered and that with an image
> and so on
> I had actually seen a (dhtml, I think) form some time back where you could
> preview your
> message at the side as you made changes...somewhat like what google has for
> their
> ad-cents accounts where you can change the colors of your ad and immediatly
> it shows the
> changes at the side in a box.
> I remember sometime back someone posting some WYSIWYG kind of editors which
> loads
> on the clients machine with just a textbox and the buttons to go bold,
> italics,centered etc
> unfortunatly looking into the archives i cant find it.

try this: http://www.fckeditor.net/
its a job to integrate but works really well and the price is good :-)

I have also had success with http://www.editize.com when i had the need
to provide a WYSIWYG editor that had to run on a wide range of browsers
and OSes - downside is it costs money, its also Java - and as many of
you know running Java applets in a browser is not always fun or fast :-/

>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
>

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