[pmwiki-users] Simple Forum

[Hans]

I created a simple forum cookbook script, see
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SimpleForum

Design concept:

This simple forum combines basically three elements:

1. for posting messages it uses CommentBoxStyled in its chronological
   mode using (:commentboxchrono:) in the Groupfooter
2. for creating new topics it uses a modified version of NewPageBox2
   with a custom markup (:newforumtopic:) in the forum HomePage.
   New pages can only be created in the current group, and instead of
   opening the new page in edit mode it opens the page in browse mode,
   which displays the commentbox ready to enter content.
3. for displaying a topic list it uses pagelist markup, but to make it
   more pretty defines a new fmt=forum for it, which displays a table
   of page(topic) titles, last modified dates and authors.

Both commentboxstyled and newpagebox2 allow for styling of the form,
and this styling is also applied to the pagelist topic table, so an
integrated styled look can be achieved.

This is a simple solution forum integrated into pmwiki.

At present it does not allow for breaking topic pages when they get
very long, nor  for breaking the topic index page (forum Homepage)
into shorter pages if it gets too long.

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Best regards,
 Hans