making my own forum

[Newsgroup_User]

Hello,

I've building my own discussion forum in ASP and am looking for some
advice. (Yes, I know that there are plenty of good forums already out
there but integrating them into an existing site and membership system,
is more hassle than it's worth, so I've built my own simple one)

The client would like the users to be able to subscribe to receive an
email when a new message is a) posted in any forum, or b)posted in a
particular forum, or c) in a particular thread.

I'm not sure how to go about implementing this.

Does anyone have any advice or tips?

Thanks
Vix

[Newsgroup_User]

> (Yes, I know that there are plenty of good forums already out there but
> integrating them into an existing site and membership system, is more
> hassle than it's worth

It shouldn't be...all you'd need to do is replicate the main login/user
table with the forum's login/user table. Then, within the forum pages, just
do a cookie check to see if they were already logged into the main site.

-Darrel

[s10ryan]

i would look at Vbulletin and phpBB
you can integrate all the user names,passwords,and data all through the PHP

[Newsgroup_User]

It has to be ASP I'm afraid.

s10ryan wrote:
> i would look at Vbulletin and phpBB
> you can integrate all the user names,passwords,and data all through the PHP

[Newsgroup_User]

I've tried to integrate web wiz forum and snitz and it seems to be a
real headache. And looking through their forums, other people seem to
find it difficult too.

If you think you could help me integrate one of those forums, then I'd
give it another go.

Vix

darrel wrote:
>>(Yes, I know that there are plenty of good forums already out there but
>>integrating them into an existing site and membership system, is more
>>hassle than it's worth
>
>
> It shouldn't be...all you'd need to do is replicate the main login/user
> table with the forum's login/user table. Then, within the forum pages, just
> do a cookie check to see if they were already logged into the main site.
>
> -Darrel
>
>

[Newsgroup_User]

Did you ever get this sorted out?
Dave
"Vix" <user@example.net> wrote in message
news:ean96g$6h6$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hello,
>
> I've building my own discussion forum in ASP and am looking for some
> advice. (Yes, I know that there are plenty of good forums already out
> there but integrating them into an existing site and membership system,
> is more hassle than it's worth, so I've built my own simple one)
>
> The client would like the users to be able to subscribe to receive an
> email when a new message is a) posted in any forum, or b)posted in a
> particular forum, or c) in a particular thread.
>
> I'm not sure how to go about implementing this.
>
> Does anyone have any advice or tips?
>
> Thanks
> Vix

[Newsgroup_User]

No I didn't. I'm still trying to figure out the best of way of doing this.

Any ideas?

Baxter wrote:
> Did you ever get this sorted out?
> Dave
> "Vix" <user@example.net> wrote in message
> news:ean96g$6h6$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I've building my own discussion forum in ASP and am looking for some
>>advice. (Yes, I know that there are plenty of good forums already out
>>there but integrating them into an existing site and membership system,
>>is more hassle than it's worth, so I've built my own simple one)
>>
>>The client would like the users to be able to subscribe to receive an
>>email when a new message is a) posted in any forum, or b)posted in a
>>particular forum, or c) in a particular thread.
>>
>>I'm not sure how to go about implementing this.
>>
>>Does anyone have any advice or tips?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Vix
>
>
>

[muzicmistro]

I had an ASP forum installed on my server although it has become corrupt. It used an access database and was just a case of plonking it on your server, choosing your connection and loading up t he configuration page.

If i find it, i'll post back here.

Cheers, Adam