I was thinking (again) about using GForum to build a newssite like Slashdot. It really wouldn't be so difficult, there are only a few things that would need to be added/changed through a plugin:
Anyone interested in this? Toghether with Paul's Karma plugin, this could be just like slashdot or php-nuke or things like that.
More ideas are welcome!
Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins
- Root post of a thread is the newsitem, replies are user comments.
- Set all the forum permissions to "can reply but can't post" for most users. Obviously admin and a selected user group would need to be able to post
- Different display for root posts (news) and non root posts (comments)
- Different categories/forum would correspond to different news categories
- New page/template that lists the last 10 or so news items (root posts)
- Users can submit stories (similar to posting a comment). Submitted stories are stored in different table until they are validated/deleted
- Submitted story validate/delete page for admin
- user profile: submitted stories
- etc etc
Anyone interested in this? Toghether with Paul's Karma plugin, this could be just like slashdot or php-nuke or things like that.
More ideas are welcome!
Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins