Use of board on your VB site.

[JeremyL]

I saw how you integrate a way for people to comment on the different articles on your Visual Basic site. Is this automated or do you have to create a topic for each manually on a different board than your normal one. If it is an automated feature will it be availible in the version you are selling.

[John]

That feature is completely separate to this. It has been around since the good ol' UBB days. It works in conjunction with our content system, so a new board is automatically created for each piece of content. It is very cut down on features too.

John

[jimbo]

Well John, I would be interested in something like this too. Even if you could just point me in the direction of a good resource so I can build it myself, it would be cool. I run a sports-related site, so there are daily news articles and game reports. I would love to have something like that. Could you provide a basic framework for how you have it set up?

[JeremyL]

Yes please tell me how I would go about doing this with your board or any for that matter. Please :)

[John]

Well, there are two tables that I use, one for threads and one for individual posts, very similar to the table structure used in vBulletin. Each thread has an extra id field to associate it with an article too.

I'm afraid that I can't really provide any pointers to resources. It is basically a very scaled down version of vBulletin without any unnecessary features. Users can reply, post new and edit and delete posts - that's it. The membership and users info all comes from the vBulletin (and previously UBB) members database.

John