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  • 20-06-2000 3:53pm
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    Krusty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭


    Howrye Ladz,
    Need some help please. I'm trying to develop a new website for a company. Nuthin amazing or anything. It needs a content manager type of thingie that filters out old news and displays the news in user areas defined by the person posting. Plus predefined users need to be albe to post new information without hassle. Now IMHO I think that this Ultimate Bulletin Board does all I need. So I need a few questions answered. Fingers on buzzers please. Can one use the UBB on a commercial website? Does one have to go through offical UBB channels for permissions, copyrights etc.?? Can it (UBB) be secured from the front-end, as in can it be set up so depending on your permissions when you log-on, you get a different set of catagories...? with some crossovers? Can it be customised so it looks semi-professional? (no dis. to JB & Co. but I mean no smilies etc?) Is it difficult to use from a webmasters POV? I'm no rocket scientist hoi. Answers on a postcard please. Thanx in advance.
    KrustE


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    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    UBB is all done with cgi..
    and is pretty easy to setup if you are familiar with perl and unix file permissions

    however if im not mistaken it sounds like you require a news publishing script that sorts sumbitted items into categories, not a bulletin board as such.

    what might be of interest to you is phplib, a set of addon libraries for php surprisingly enough.. http://phplib.netuse.de .. and there is a great phplib enabled version of slashdots news system available on that site.. examples of which are: http://www.highervoltage.net/ and http://www.cafe52.com/ which both allow users and/or admin users to submit news/info.
    security wise its all done server side so theres no passwords etc. drifting around, but as with everything its as secure as you make it.
    http://www.filmsoc.com


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    Pretence
    Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭Pretence


    Check out www.slashdot.org .

    They have be the sound of it just what your looking for.


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Krusty we have something very like that (you can see the beta at playerofgames.com but really that is the beta)

    However content mangement is an expensive business and while we cost about 5-10K for the solution, other solutions can cost easily 100K before you get started...

    DeV.

    ps: if you are looking to do it on the cheap, try zope.org




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