Hello, I need to make a small threaded discussion forum on a site. Is it difficult? What does it take? Is there any resources available somewhere that I can look at?

Thanks Trond

Trond,

you could try Snitz Forums. That's the one we use and it's very easy to configure. Visit forum.snitz.com for more info.

Sune Pederson has made a very easy discussion board in UD which you can download at www.spdesign.dk/ultradev.asp and maybe it's something you can use?

I've also been working on an advanced forum in UD but that was quite difficult. Maybe I'll finish it once, but then you'll read it here at UDzone <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>.

Waldo

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It is very easy to make a very simple discussion forum using three tables Members/Threads/Replies, the difficult bit is the fancy parts that polish the application.
Just have a play around I managed to create a simple one in a couple of hours.
I came unstuck when I wanted to add details from one form to multiple tables, any tips guys. I am using Access 2000.

MaT

Edited by - MaT on 02/26/2001 15:23:17

Further to my above post..........
For inserting to more than one table from a form.......If I take those values that belong in the second table and set them to session varialbles I can then use these values on a second page to submit to another table.
Q: how do I get that second page to submit automatically as it loads, so they never see the page or realise anything is happening. It just submits the info and then moves onto the conformation page.

Cheers

MaT

The only thing I can come up with is to use client site javascript and onload="document.forms[0].submit();" in the body. But that's absolutely not what I would use.

You should try to find out (I don't know it without trying myself) what paramaters MM uses to verify that a document has been submitted. You should add that parameter to the redirect url to fake the submission.

I think it would be better to make your own insertion scripts that you can put in a separate file. That should work much nicer.

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I think it would be better to make your own insertion scripts that you can put in a separate file. That should work much nicer.

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Now this is an area I am not very hot in, could you recommend to me any resources that would provide me with tutorials or examples.
In the past I have tried to write an external script for checking text for certain inputs......I didn't meet with much success.
I seem to remember these snitz forums use external scripts for their various functions. Unfortunately I coundn't strip out the examples I needed from all the code <img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>
Any help very much appreciated

MaT