Adding a forum to a Gallery website? - Recommendations?

nop

Joined: 2003-11-27
Posts: 6
Posted: Fri, 2004-01-30 10:56

I run an increasingly popular Gallery website for my photography, & a number of viewers have told me that they'd like to have a discussion forum / web-board with it. I'm an experienced general sysadmin, but a total newbie to PHP & other webby stuff. I currently have it set up as a bare Gallery site.

Any suggestions or recommendations from people who've done something similar? Suggestions for some sort of software that I can use to put up a news page at the front end of the site would be nice too.
I can also be contacted via email at

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Thanks in advance for any advice. :)
 
paulmills

Joined: 2003-07-15
Posts: 16
Posted: Sat, 2004-01-31 13:43

I have used PHPwebsite and integrated both Gallery and PHPBB into it. They seem to be working quite nicely at the moment. Gallery has been integrated for a few months but I only added PHPBB last night, so it has some bedding in to do.

I didn't do any of the coding myself, i managed to download everything already hacked from the internet.

Paul
 
nop

Joined: 2003-11-27
Posts: 6
Posted: Sun, 2004-02-01 04:00
paulmills wrote:
I have used PHPwebsite and integrated both Gallery and PHPBB into it. They seem to be working quite nicely at the moment. Gallery has been integrated for a few months but I only added PHPBB last night, so it has some bedding in to do.
Paul

Thanks fo the advice, Paul.
How easy was it to install? Any 'gotchas' that I need to watch out for?
(I'll be installing to a fairly plain vanilla (but locked down) RH9 server.)
 
paulmills

Joined: 2003-07-15
Posts: 16
Posted: Sun, 2004-02-01 13:44

I managed to download everything I needed already hacked. So it didn't really take too much effort on my part.

I got most of the stuff from here, but the phpBB was hard to find. I'll try to put direct links up later.

http://gocompupro.com/muggles/

Took me friday evening to build a whole new site on phpwebsite running gallery and phpbb so you can see it's not too hard.

If you get stuck post here again or send me a PM as my set up is identical, running on RH9

Paul
 
paulmills

Joined: 2003-07-15
Posts: 16
Posted: Sun, 2004-02-01 18:08

All the parts you need are

PHPWebSite 0.8.3
http://dl.sourceforge.net/phpwebsite/phpWebSite-en-0.8.3.tar.gz

Gallery hacked for PHPWebsite
http://gocompupro.com/muggles/mod.php?mod=downloads&op=viewdownload&cid=2

phpBB
follow the links here
http://gocompupro.com/muggles/mod.php?mod=phpBB&file=viewtopic.php&p=357#357

And you need to activate MySQL in RH9, if you haven't already done this have a look at PHPmyadmin at Sourceforge as it makes life much easier.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/

I can't remember exactly but the hacked modules all had a readme file to tell you how to install.

Paul
 
wireman
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Joined: 2004-01-27
Posts: 8
Posted: Mon, 2004-02-02 02:40

Hmmmmm. My 2 cents. This PHP based forum is a good one. However, if you want something more basic but with great features try SimpleBBS - http://www.simplemedia.org/ - you can see it run on my site here (10 discussion boards installed) - http://www.aboutknox.com/discuss.htm - and it runs flat file doesn't require MySql or other dBase. My site itself is still under construction | grin | but, the boards are live. Cheers 8)