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jeger003

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hello everyone,

i have a site where college students can post items.......similar to craigslist but college....i have a forum with it but its completely separate from the site.....and it requires a new login.....which means to post an item you need a login and to post in the forum you need a new login.......i might be able to combine them but.....not sure if its worth it

 

my question:

should i combine the two or keep them separate?

or

should i just remove the forum?

 

i was hoping to make the forum a place for students to just talk about school, professors, classes etc.....

 

 

i would appreciate any advice......ideas....tips....not sure whats left...lol

 

 

thankS!!!

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Yes, you should combine the logins because that just makes since if it's all in one domain.

 

As for keep the forum or not, does any one ever post in it? If so, than keep it, if its dead, maybe keep it anyways...whats the harm?

 

yea very good point......it hasnt gott'n any posts but i think its because its so separate from the site.....i've been tryin to find ways to make the forum stand out or show that we have a forum......but yea i think im just gonna combine them

 

 

thanks

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In reply to your initial question, combining the two would definitely be more user friendly.

 

It'd probably be quite easy to do tbh, just make your own login page that sets the same cookies/sessions as the forum login page does.

 

Then you're logged into both areas :)

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In reply to your initial question, combining the two would definitely be more user friendly.

 

It'd probably be quite easy to do tbh, just make your own login page that sets the same cookies/sessions as the forum login page does.

 

Then you're logged into both areas :)

 

oh man i wish it was that easy......i've been tryin for months to figure out how to do that......i hired a guy from scriptlance.com.........he started working and said he was using cURL to combine the two(not sure how that works).....but after a little work i never heard from him again.....lol.....learned my lesson....so im tryna do everything myself now cause i really cant trust anyone......im still using phpbb forum and wanted to combine that with my site.....i didnt get any support from their forum......

 

 

thats why i wanted to decide on whether it was worth using or not.........if you created a college forum what would you do or how would you change it to make users post?

 

should i have a few fake posts? or how do i make it start up? its soo empty

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Well, personally, I made my own forum :D

http://www.jackpf.co.uk/forum

It's obviously nowhere near as advanced as anything like PHPBB, but it was fun making it, and you get to personalise it however you want.

 

But you'll never guess what I just found on google...

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1532.html

I haven't read it all, but it looks exactly what you're looking for...

:)

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