jeger003 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 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!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian W Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeger003 Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeger003 Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 another question. how can i start up my forum? make users post? show that we have a forum? i would appreciate any feedback Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian W Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Advertise with the college. Gets your friends to do you a favor and start posting. Get some local bands to start posting their show schedules on it. Basically, make reasons for people to go to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpf Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeger003 Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpf Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Well, personally, I made my own forum 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeger003 Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 oh dude this is awesome stuff! i really like the forum you put together lool saw the vid of the get doing the soulja boy hahaah hilarious.... but thanks so much for the help....i really appreciate it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpf Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Yeah, let me know if it worked or not. And thanks, it's not amazing, but it's pretty cool, and I'm proud of it And yeah, that video's pretty funny. Guy who goes to my school. Knob. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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