Hcgtv,
Re: Maillist Bridge
Looks great! I'll give it a try over the next week.
Thank you very much!
Malcolm
2 2006-01-30 06:45
Re: Possible to password protect individual forums? (2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
CreatureCorp,
Thanks for your help ... your post was exactly the information I was looking for (and hoping for)!
Malcolm
3 2006-01-30 05:31
Re: Emailing Posts? (15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
One of the scenarios where posting to a thread via email would be extremely useful is for (volunteer) moderators who work disconnected from the web. The ability for these type of users to respond to posts using an OFFLINE email client (for example while commuting to/from work) and then have their replies sent when they reconnect to the web would be greatly appreciated.
Malcolm
4 2006-01-30 05:19
Topic: Possible to password protect individual forums? (2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
New punBB user ... Wondering if its possible to create a set of forums where some forums are private (password protected and optionally hidden) and some are public. And if so, would it be possible to hide the private forums and make them only accessible via links included on protected pages within a website?
Ideally I would like to setup just a single punBB install. But I'm guessing that another way to implement my question would be to install 3 seperate copies of punBB on my server?
A sample scenario follows my signature. Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks,
Malcolm
Example:
Public forum 1
Public forum 2
...
Public forum N
Customer specific forum 1 (private)
Customer specific forum 2 (private)
...
Customer specific forum N (private)
Partner specific forum (private)
5 2006-01-12 19:50
Re: Evaluating punBB and have some questions (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
James,
Thanks for your welcome to the community and for your suggestions. I've decided to go ahead and install punBB as our site's forum service.
I'll keep my eyes open for punBB 1.3 ... 
Malcolm
6 2006-01-12 19:37
Re: Evaluating punBB and have some questions (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
I narrowed my original search for a forum down to SMF, Vanilla, and punBB. I really like punBB (small and fast) and so far the lack of a previous/next topic type link is the only shortcoming I see when comparing punBB to these other alternatives. I'm going to keep looking for a solution and will open up the punBB code sometime this weekend.
(Wondering to myself ... having not looked at the punBB source) is there something in the punBB design/caching system or database schema that may make generating previous topic/next topic link difficult or extremely inefficient ... any takers???
Malcolm
7 2006-01-12 16:14
Re: Evaluating punBB and have some questions (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
James,
Thanks - I'm off to see what's available in punres.org.
Malcolm
8 2006-01-12 15:49
Re: Evaluating punBB and have some questions (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the reply. I'm sure my community will want to read topic by topic in specific forums. And, like you said, from a moderator's standpoint (my moderators will be unpaid volunteers), going back and forth between the list of topics and the previous/next topic can be tedious.
Is "previous/next topic" navigation a feature I might find in the mods (plugins/extensions)? I took a quick peek and nothing jumped out at me.
Malcolm
9 2006-01-12 09:17
Re: Evaluating punBB and have some questions (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
James,
Thanks for the response. I took a peek at extern.php and you are right, this should get me started with integrating punBB info into the rest of my site.
As for #1 (previous/next topic navigation), I'm surprised that no one appears to be looking for this type of functionality.
Malcolm
10 2006-01-12 07:02
Topic: Evaluating punBB and have some questions (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Hi - new to these forums although I've been a fan of punBB for some time. Now I'm getting ready to add punBB to our site and have some questions I haven't found answered on this site/forums.
1. Is there a way to move between topics via a "Previous Topic"/"Next Topic" type of link? I don't see a way to quickly move to the next topic without first returning to a list of topics and then clicking on the previous/next topic.
2. Is there a way to subscribe to RSS feeds for a specific forum or post?
3. Are there PHP modules I can use to extract info from my punBB forums for placement on my main site? I'm thinking of stats such as 10 most recent topics, 10 most recent posts, number of subscribers, number of posts, number of forums, etc. Ideally I would like to display my 10 most recent topics and posts as URLs so that a visitor could click on a link and go directly to a topic or post?
Thank you,
Malcolm