Looking for Yahoo Groups type script
Sigh.. I have a hefty project to fulfill. I have to create a "Yahoo Groups" style website. I thought I could perhaps program the user database, and somehow integrate that with my two favorites Gallery and PhpBB2, but that quickly became a nightmare, and technically too much for me.
Then I thought I'd try one of the Nukes not at all knowing what the heck they really are. I went to the Php-Nukes site, and they gave you a short blurb about it what it was. Then I stumbled across the Postnuke site (is it me or is this the most confusing website on planet earth?) and couldn't find a simple "What Postnuke is or does".
So I went ahead and got Php-nukes, and had all kinds of problems even though I followed the installation perfectly. In disgust I deleted the whole thing.
I don't even know if this is what I want. Does anyone know if there is anything close to some sort of integrated package that even vaguely resembles Yahoo groups?
Thanks
Sam
Sam A Lewit
Mark Hensler posted this at 20:20 — 4th May 2003.
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Do you want the functionality of a single group? or do you want people to be able to sign up and create themselves groups on your site.
I've never seen anything the second. You could stitch together some free scripts to have an equivalent of the first, but you'd better practice your needle work before taking on that task.
PostNuke was a spin off of PHP-Nuke. And it does the same thing. Some of the modules are even interchangable between PHP-Nuke and PostNuke.
Mark Hensler
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salewit posted this at 04:48 — 5th May 2003.
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It's one single group. We're a scenic rail group that runs restored steam locomotives on weekend trips. We have a website for the general public, but the volunteers that run the thing 2,000+ of them want a place where they can discuss things, upload/view photos and files. It's basically just a private little place to "hang out". Once you're in, you're in. Everyone is at one level.
I tried installing PhP-Nuke, and had problems getting the "security code" graphic to come up, and couldn't solve it. PostNuke turned me off by the website. I'm now looking at Geeklog. Don't know much about it though.
Thanks for chiming in.
Sam
Sam A Lewit
Busy posted this at 10:01 — 5th May 2003.
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instead of a message board, what about a forum (like this) can be set up into sections or left as one main section, can be password protected, options for image posting and signatures ...
plus I think some message script systems start deleting old stuff once it gets to old or two big, where as a forum its up to you when you delete stuff
phpbb and invisionboard are free (they use PHP/MySQL)
andy206uk posted this at 12:29 — 7th May 2003.
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theres loads of community addons for phpbb... have a look at phpbbhacks.com theres gallery... news, portal... all sorts! will do just what you need!
Andy
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