think about what's involved in a message board and all the elements will be
in the book somewhere ... (thinking off the top of my head here)
You need to allow only authenticated users to post (authentication chapter).
You need to keep track of who's doing what (session variables and client
variables)
You need to store messages in your database and retrieve them ( data
manipulation and SQL chapters)
You need to keep track of threads and sort messages (data manipulation
chapters)
I'm sure there are other issues too, but I've never really gone into message
boards much. I feel sure that while there's no tutorial on building a
message board, if you work out what your message board has to do, and take
on each issue one at a time, you'll find it laid out for you in the CFWACK.
If not, there's always this CF-TALK list and I've never found any problem
that's too difficult for this list. Collectively, this list knows
everything there is to know about ColdFusion and a whole lot more besides.
But I have found the vast majority of things I need to know are in those two
books. In fact I use them as my primary reference rather than the online
references and help files.
(To be fair, I should also say there are other books on ColdFusion that
might well be just as good, but I'm only familiar with the two books in the
CFWACK series. I have three editions of them now)
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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From: Roberto Perez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 1 August 2004 4:55 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: tutorial on mess.board (was: Free Open Source Shopping cart?)
Does the book include a tutorial with a message board as an example? What
you said about learning one shopping cart so that you can create your own
also makes sense regarding the exchange on cf-based discussion forums a few
messages back.
I've looked at the several (paid and free) message boards mentioned in the
postings, and they all seem to have one or two of the features I need, but
none is exactly what I want. A tutorial that uses a MB as an example would
be a great starter to build something specific to my needs.
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