Posted by Adotek on 05/31/07 22:24

On May 31, 9:02 pm, Mike P2 <sumguyovrt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 31, 9:29 am, Adotek <simonmhar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > - SEO canonical issues must have been addressed (e.g. Only one URL per
> > page of content)
> > - I want to link from existing articles in our website to a forum
> > "Discuss this" - Ideally, at this point the forum software will create
> > a discussion automatically, based on values passed in the URL (Maybe a
> > dream feature?!)
> > - Ideally, must have a user base that is exposed via an API - So I can
> > use this for other features of the site
>
> phpBB can be modified to work like this, using it I've done the second
> two before and I've seen the first done. The difference is I made it
> create topics automatically when the content is submitted, which isn't
> what your description looks like (I'm not sure what you're saying
> toward the end of that list item). There must be a pre-made
> modification to some forum software, maybe phpBB has one, that covers
> everything you're asking for without doing any programming work. They
> don't use the SEO thing by default for performance (can't just create
> tens of thousands of files) and portability (automatically rewriting
> the URL would not be the same on UNIX and Windows) reasons, but it's
> fine to add it yourself.
>
> -Mike PII

Thanks Mike - Sounds like phpBB is certainly worth investigating -
I'll give it a go.

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