For our new customer we need to build a forum. It pretty much a standard forum, with the following functionality:
Categorization of topics (choose from predifined categories) Option to reply to a existing reply Integration with Umbraco Members - incl. displaying number of posts per member Very limited (maybe no even no) WYSIWYG Subscription to E-mail notifications
I'm not quite sure how to solve this forum business the best way.
One way could be to use the existing uForum package - But as far as I can se, the project is pretty much dead. And from existing posts, I seem to catch the drift, that the uForum is a scaled down generic version of the this very forum.
Another way could be to build it myself. Not that large a project, but what would be the best approach in Umbraco?
Use nodes for categories, topics and replies - or only for categories and topics, and keep the replies in a MSSQL db?
Any input and experiences building fora in Umbraco, will be very much appreciated.
Rich and Bob, thanks a bunch for your help. I've taken a look at nForum, but it seemed like overkill as we only needed a very basic forum. So I ended up creating my own.
Forum in Umbraco 4.7
Hiya,
For our new customer we need to build a forum. It pretty much a standard forum, with the following functionality:
Categorization of topics (choose from predifined categories)
Option to reply to a existing reply
Integration with Umbraco Members - incl. displaying number of posts per member
Very limited (maybe no even no) WYSIWYG
Subscription to E-mail notifications
I'm not quite sure how to solve this forum business the best way.
One way could be to use the existing uForum package - But as far as I can se, the project is pretty much dead. And from existing posts, I seem to catch the drift, that the uForum is a scaled down generic version of the this very forum.
Another way could be to build it myself. Not that large a project, but what would be the best approach in Umbraco?
Use nodes for categories, topics and replies - or only for categories and topics, and keep the replies in a MSSQL db?
Any input and experiences building fora in Umbraco, will be very much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance
Hey Martin,
Can't see why uForum nForum wouldn't work for what you need.
Rich
what about this forum?
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/nforum
Hey Martin, Bob,
Slight but important mispost on my post!
Mine was supposed to say nForum NOT uForum.
nForum is the way to go.
Rich
Rich and Bob, thanks a bunch for your help. I've taken a look at nForum, but it seemed like overkill as we only needed a very basic forum. So I ended up creating my own.
You guys get credit for helping though.
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