Hi,
I've been reading over the forum a little bit, trying to figure out if PunBB is what I need, but so far am still undecided. I run a very small, essentially private site. I need a small forum with only a couple of categories, and it will only ever have about 30 users, both reading and posting to it. I also need the ability to let them post news articles on the front page of the site, ideally also alowing them to select an image to post along with their article.
Currently I am using a combination of phpbb (for the forum obviously), and phpfn for the news section. Both are doing an excellent job on their own, but I am hoping that PunBB with the news plugin can accomodate both needs with a single program. All the news portion needs is to let people post an article that will show up on the front page, preferably a summarized version with title and author name, and from what I've read, the news plugin, or even extern.php can do exactly this. The one thing I am unsure on, is can it allow a user to assign an image along with the post? (Preferably one already uploaded they can select from, as opposed to them attaching one themselves by uploading).
The other piece I am hoping PunBB can help with, are two custom "applications" that I'd like to be tied into the forum login session. Both are simple, single page apps. I'd like users to have access to them based on their forum logins, so that only 1 login is required across the site. How easy/hard is it to setup PunBB authentication on external pages like that?
Thanks for any assistance. I don't really need specific technical anwers to these questions right yet, just more of an idea of whether or not PunBB is capable of this type of thing, or how difficult it might be, so I know if I'm in the right place or not.