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 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
