Free BBS

[ixie02]

Anybody know where I can get a free asp discussion/bulletin board at least as good as this one. I tried Dynamic Drive and they have some pretty good stuff, but not what I'm looking for.

http://dynamicdrive.com/

[admin]

This is the best asp one I have seen.

http://forum.snitz.com/

[Garreg]

I used to use Snitz but found it prone to errors - expecially when under heavy usage, I know you said .asp - but to be honest I don't think you can better than phpBB.

Whislt browsing the net the other night I came accross something called aspNuke or something similar. It was a free .asp Portal with a forum built into it - had a look and it seemed OK.

I think..... I stumbled upon it via HotScripts

[jkohout]

Web Wiz Forums

http://www.webwizguide.com/

Version 7 of the forum is coming out soon so you may want to wait as an easy upgrade from 6.32 to 7 is not guarenteed though someone is working on it.

version 7 info
http://www.webwizguide.com/forum/sea...S tart+Search

[ixie02]

Originally posted by Garreg
I used to use Snitz but found it prone to errors - expecially when under heavy usage, I know you said .asp - but to be honest I don't think you can better than phpBB.

Whislt browsing the net the other night I came accross something called aspNuke or something similar. It was a free .asp Portal with a forum built into it - had a look and it seemed OK.

I think..... I stumbled upon it via HotScripts

Thanks for the help. I tried a few and phpBB seems to be most suitable for my needs. In fact, now that I've seen it I see it on quite a few sites on the web!

[admin]

phpBB is nice.. The nice thing is I think they have an import from phpBB to vBulletin as well when you want to move up..

[Garreg]

Admin is right, although I run a couple of phpBB forums, I also use vBulletin which I upgraded from an original phpBB forum without any problems.

An additional bonus of phpBB is the numerous hacks out there for it, here’s a couple of good sites that may be of interest –

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/
http://phpbbfm.streetpromos.com/bootleg

The latter ‘Bootleg’ offers a downloadable version with every hack you can think of already installed.

One last tip though - make sure you are running tha latest version and protect your admin area .htaccess

[admin]

Never seen the fully modded one..


I almost like that better then VB..

http://phpbbfm.streetpromos.com/bootleg is very cool.. Do you know if it lets you turn hacks on and off in the admin area?

[Garreg]

There are a couple of versions available (gets a bit confusing) – Portal and Fully Modded.
I’ve played with all the versions – the ‘fully modded’ allows you to turn on / off a few hacks, but not many.

Personally, I’m waiting for vBulletin v.3 (though I’m dreading it a bit, as my forum has a number of hacks installed – quiz area etc… ), though I’m more interested in the CMS add-on that’s being developed.

Just for interest - One of my present projects is Portal type site for a web developers community which I run, it will be MySQL / PHP with a fully integrated phpBB forum, knowledge base and code snippets area, where developers can deposit / download bits of code save re-inventing the wheel.

[Craig_Smith]

I've been spending alot of my free time lately working and learning PHP...

I'm also a huge fan of PHPbb... why pay for vbulletin when you can get this for free?
Heres mine: http://www.forums.vanhalenlive.com/index.php

A long time ago I built a Snitz forum for a customer,, what a piece of crap. I don't think you can achieve the same results with ASP as you can with some of the great PHP stuff thats out there for free.

As for portals,, you can't beat PHPnuke. I'm currently working on one for my Dad still in testing phase.,,
http://216.157.128.171/index.php

..next is to test the PHPnuke/PHPbb mod where you can combine the 2.

[Garreg]

That looks good Craig – did you do the graphics as well, looks good.

I like Nuke, but think it’s a bit of a drain on resources… I think I'd prefer to run with PostNuke though, have you looked at that?

I’m trying to develop my Portal / Community site from scratch (apart from the phpBB bit) So far the trick has been to unserialize the PHPBB session/cookie variables and map these to whatever my ‘Portal / Community’ site needs are, issuing the session variables that my ‘new site’ expects.
Hopefully it will be up and running in a couple of months – when it is I’ll post the link and let you all take look (or have a laugh.. )

Ah... Perry, Ohio, the weather certainly looks better than here ...cold / miserable (North Wales UK)

[Craig_Smith]

Yes, i did the graphics. I didn't spend much time on either one. They were both meant to be tests for using these on H-Sphere,, it helps me help customers with this stuff..since the other techs don't have the time to be troubleshooting them.

I'll have to take a look at the postnuke and see what thats all about..
Yeah,, Perry is COLD.. I'm glad I'm in florida right now and not up there.

[ramjet]

craig, i have a client on UNIX 3 who wants to test phpnuke on his account.
he's uploaded the files to a folder called nuke via WsFtp under his domain name and is waiting for the dns to propagate. We have tried once already just with an ip (he had no domain name) but nothing happened - the index.php just hung.
We've deleted everything and reuploaded, but because neither of us know how to unzip on the server, we have ftp-ed all the files up seperately.
I'm a greenhorn on all this, but they say edit the config file, and chmod to 666, then go via the web to the index file (and this should automatically set up the database.
Is this all there is to it?
Trouble is I don't understand chmod, and don't know if all the files are correct automatically after the upload

Coupla questions:
1) how do you unzip a zip file once its uploaded to the server?

2)what details should go on the config file re "$dbhost"
(i'm alphahost.net and he's a client with his own CP) I presume either mysql.alphahost.net or mysql1.alphahost.net, but i don't know how to determine which.

3)as far as H-Sphere is concerned, should the last config parameter (database type) be "MySQL" as they suggest, or "mysql"

3)is it alright to call the database "nuke", or will this conflict with other people on the same mysql server who may have called their database "nuke"

any help would help
thanks, murray.

[admin]

ramjet,

why would you upload a zip? Why not unzip it an upload it?

[ramjet]

hey-up brad..
zipped its 2 meg, unzipped its 12 meg, and i'm on dial-up.
i did unzip and upload it, but being able to do it the other way means i have an extra 2 hours where the telephone is free.
Things are pretty primitive here, bet ya i'm Matrix's only stoneage service provider.