andy206uk — Wed, 07 May 2003 12:29:16 +0000

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!

Busy — Mon, 05 May 2003 10:01:52 +0000

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)

salewit — Mon, 05 May 2003 04:48:02 +0000

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

Mark Hensler — Sun, 04 May 2003 20:20:58 +0000

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.