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I do really appologise for bring up this old thread.

Is there a skinning guide to punbb?
I just need a reference sheet for what affects what.

Fantastic thank you.
Although when I logout and click the now displayed forum I get this error message:

Is there anyway I can replace that with a tidy "You do not have permission to view this forum" message?

I had a look I'm not promising anything but I do have a question.
What does this do and where is it specified?
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(Also the code itself is messy if you validate it and try to clean up the errors a lot of errors will go away but I don;t know if that is the case here.)

This is my main complaint with nearly all the opensource CMSs I have looked at.
I mean we bust our nut trying to seperate style and content, developing css and best practices, only to be backdoored by CMS devs who proudly put "xhtml compliant!" as there main feature yet fail to grasp other basic web concepts.

I think I'm against using Punbb as a CMS (using posts as articles) as with the host and set up I have physical space isn't an issue but cpu load and db space is.
So what I have decided to try and do is use flat pages to store the articles and just index them with the db.
So I'll have a load of pages called <title>.html indexed by <title> into various <catergories> and tagged with <keywords> (for searchablility) in the db.

(If I use the db to contain the articles, do the indexing and maintain punbb it will fall over in no time at all (and it's cheaper to just buy a new hardrive rather then upgrade the server)).

What I'm hoping to do is have 4 templates (representing the four different types of articles) and just structure the information so that you just fill in the forms (<title> <catergory> <summery> <article> <keywords>) and the php will fill in the information according to the template and then write a file called <title>.html.

That way I can run the db index when the editor publishes the article on the frontpage.

I do want to use punbb to handle the commentating though so when the first person writes a comment it creates a forum post in the relevent forum.

I'll give frontpage and miniportal a go though thanks for that guys.

Hi this is EXACTLY [almost!] what I have been looking for.
I wanted an easy cms that had clean code, that didn't require me to create a site around it (ie template the cms output), that I could just insert the bits I wanted however I wanted (in my case just the heading and description).
I also wanted the comments system to tie into punbb (user db etc).
Basically an article post/display/edit/comment sytem tied into punbb.

So this is perfect [ish]!

But!

I need a way so that any contributer can create an article but it has to be checked and 'published' by an editor before it becomes live and pushes the top news story off the page.

Preferably I would want to do this elegantly without having to, say, move by hand an article from a 'to be checked' forum to a 'live' forum.
Which is why I'm here

Also is there way I can grab specific topic titles, tack on a witty description and publish them to the frontpage?

Thanks again for this extension you are a life saver.

That looks really lovely but I have a question.

How are you pulling news from forum posts [with comments]?

How do I chown the folder [what's the best program to use?] and how do I find out what the php user is?
Also I don't know any php so if you could provide me with a mkdir script I would be very greatfull.

I'm really sorry about the questions/requests! [I'm better at css then I am at forum/database malarky, once the forum works and I'm done with it I'm sure you guys will love it ]

Unfortunately that is the problem. I can not change it to 777 only 666 and below due to restricted access by my host.