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Thanks for your answer. I probably had a look at the wrong link first. I will first check it out before I proceed. And yes, it's a pity that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Greetings -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 15:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [magnolia-user] Forum with magnolia? On May 10, 2007, at 10:05 , Daniel Knöpfel wrote: > Hi > > > We use magnolia as cms system. Now one of our customers wants to > have a forum implemented. In the forum, any user should be able to > post. Are there existing magnolia applications that have already > implemented this? I believe magnolia was not made for content that > any user can update. > > What might pose some difficulties is the following: > > - The posts would only be available on the public instance as they > are posted there And that's how it's meant to be, it is public data, not author'ed data. In the case of the ("new") forum module, it uses a separate workspace, so it shouldn't pose any "synchronization" issues. > - How can the author delete unwanted posts, as the are only > available on the public website You have a complete admin interface on the public instance of magnolia, too. All "moderation" should happen on the public site. > - How to best save posts > > Right now I tend to have a separate database for the posts. That > database could then be accessed from a custom template from the > author and the public instances. However, this would not be very > elegant as this is kind of not using magnolia and its > functionality. Are there any better ways? Storing it in jcr like the new module does gives some extra facilities that you don't really want to invent on top of a rdbms (the tree structure and the references, for instance) > Yes I have seen this. From what I have read, this implementation > has got the major drawback that every time the forum page is > activated, all posts are deleted. Uh ? Maybe this was based on the "old" implementation of a forum that was made for Magnolia 2. The new implementation is really different; if you could clarify your concerns, I'd be glad to answer, help or see that what you need is somehow feasible with the new forum module. > This is why I am reluctant to use start playing with this source > (apart from the fact that is suppossedly not finished There's no such thing as a free lunch... > and quite akward to get running anyway) Uh ? Again, please clarify what your problems are, and I'll be glad to help. Cheers g ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://documentation.magnolia.info/docs/en/editor/stayupdated.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://documentation.magnolia.info/docs/en/editor/stayupdated.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
