Did I miss part of this thread or is there a call out in this list for a volunteer to make a threaded forums component into an Open Source one for all to use?
If that's the case, I have one that I developed and have evolved a bit over the past couple years... It's far from perfect right now but has some great features and I know it could be cleaned up tremendously as open source... If this is the deal, let me know! At 09:00 AM 12/30/02 -0500, you wrote: >I'm down as well. I use SMB on one of my sites now and have only had >minor issues with it. >I could look into the email functionality (notifying a user by email >when someone has responded to their topic) or is that already there and >I'm just not seeing it? Anyway, I'll help in any way I can. > >Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer >The Children's Medical Center >One Children's Plaza >Dayton, OH 45404 >937-641-4293 >http://www.childrensdayton.org > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/26/2002 10:37:03 AM >>> >I'd be willing to open SMB to other developers... > >http://www.simplemessageboard.com/ > > > I've dealt with UBB, fuseTalk, ezBoard, and the old Allaire Forums. >If I > > can say anything on the subject, it's that NO ONE has gotten it >right > > (especially on the database end). > > > > Mike D said a year ago he was going to re-write the old Allaire >Forums > > and eventually open source it. Which, stop me if I'm wrong, is what >is > > being used on houseoffusion.com? But I think I missed the part where >he > > open sourced it. Last I checked in June at cfFun, he said he was >still > > working on it. > > > > I for one would really like to work an open-source bbs project. I >think > > there is a pretty high demand for a sturdy open source board, which >can > > be customized at the will of the programmer. I've thrown around the > > open-source idea with a bunch of people but found our selves >intimidated > > by the legal requirements. > > > > You know we have a really great community here, but I can't tell you >of > > ANY cold fusion open-source projects. Is open source cold fusion a >pipe > > dream? Would anyone else be interested in contributing? > > > > Adam Wayne Lehman > > Web Systems Developer > > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health > > Distance Education Division > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Montgomery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:58 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Cold Fusion forum > > > > Howdy Michael, > > > > Thursday, December 19, 2002, 7:54:13 PM, Michael T. Tangorre wrote: > > > > > I am attempting to to try some more advanced things with an idea I > > > have. I am going to be building an online forum to tinker with.. >can > > > anyone point me to some database examples? The code side is what I >am > > > going to be playing with but need a good architecture to use.. >anyone > > > know of one I can download? > > > > I didn't see a reply to this yet, so I'll offer one to consider: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbopenforums/ > > > > It uses Fusebox, but you might be able to get something useful out >of > > it. > > > > If you are wanting to explore how the database would be structured >for a > > forums app, you might want to research hierarchical database design, > > parent-child relationships, or using recursion with your database. > > > > This page is an example of doing recursive joins for a forum: > > http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/sqlguru/q120899-1.shtml > > with a follow-up here: > > http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/sqlguru/q121799-1.shtml > > > > Another post about threaded discussion forums database design: > > http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=1353 > > with a follow-up here: > > http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=1602 > > > > Some good SQL sites to check out: > > http://www.dbmsmag.com/index.shtml > > http://www.codebits.com/ntm/ > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/07/12/aboutSQL.html > > http://www.sqlteam.com/Default.asp > > http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ > > http://www.intelligententerprise.com/info_centers/database/ > > http://www.databasejournal.com/ > > http://www.sqlmag.com/ > > > > Hope that helps you somewhat. > > > > Happy Holidays! > > > > -- > > Chris Montgomery monty @ airtightweb.com > > Airtight Web Services http://www.airtightweb.com > > Web Development, Web Project Management, Software Sales > > 210-490-3249/888-745-7603 > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
