On Monday, July 15, 2002, 1:55:44 PM, "Andy" wrote: > I just found a site where they have integrated a usenet forum into their own > forum. I am wondering how this is technicaly done? The postings seem to be > pretty up to date ( I did compare them with the usenet ones) > Here is the link: > http://britishexpats.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=43&s=e80f5f41207018 > c5dd5751801faf1037
> Has anybody an idea how they do this. I think the forum software is phpbb. > But they do not provide such a function as far as I know. All the data > inside phpbb comes out of a db usually. How is this done with copyrights > anyway? It's using vBulletin (www.vbulletin.com - the clue is in the page footer of the url you specified), not phpbb. There are a number of hacks for vBulletin that allow this type of functionality. http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=146348&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending As for how legal it is, I'm not sure, IANAL. -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
