• From: UK
  • Registered: 2004-05-20
  • Posts: 4

Topic: A couple of questions about PunBB

Hello everyone,

First of all I have to say that PunBB has to be one of the slickest and best developed forum software I have seen in a long time, it just seems to operate perfectly.

It is for this reason that I am going to use PunBB to power a discussion forum for my Blog (theblogfather.net - coming soon). The question(s) I have to ask you are as follows:

- Can anyone give me an example of PunBB integrated with a Moveable Type blog. I know that the main PunBB page is powered by MT (or so I have heard) but I would like to see a blog with something like "recent comments" integrated into the side column. Is there anything out there?

- I really like the design of the main page of punbb and if I don't integrate PunBB totally into my Moveable Type blog - I would like to have a 'portal' page just like the main one here. Does the software have an add-on that can do that?

Thank you in advance for any help you can give!
TheBlogFather

  • From: UK
  • Registered: 2004-05-20
  • Posts: 4

Re: A couple of questions about PunBB

Can anyone help?

  • From: Spain/Germany
  • Registered: 2004-02-27
  • Posts: 107

Re: A couple of questions about PunBB

According to Rickard the main page uses MT, yes. And I've no idea about an integrated solution, someone's hinted at it but I haven't seen anything so far. Maybe someone else can provide more detailed information here.

If by "partial integration" you mean the "last discussions" window, yes, there is a file called extern.php in the distribution which allows you to retrieve data from the forums wherever you want: last posts, number of users online, etc. And it's easy to tweak if you need something slighty different.

Regards.

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
  • Posts: 9,167

Re: A couple of questions about PunBB

Putting PHP code in Movable Type templates is no problem. You can then just include extern.php with the right settings. Have a look at the top of the source file for instructions.

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