[dokuwiki] Re: DokuWiki forum

Hi everyone!

Wasn't a part of this discussion from the start, though my personal view is that a PunBB integration with dokuwiki would be a great addition.

Regardless of whether this happens or not, I thought I could make a small contribution and maybe get things started.

Spent the day today writing a mod for PunBB that would allow the forum to read messages on the list, and then create topics and replies based on the list content.

If you would like a demo, head over to my site: http://www.mxsoft.org/forums

(btw, my site's server has been having some issues lately, so if you can't get in, just try a few minutes later)

There, at the bottom of the forum list, you'll see a dokuwiki forum that is entirely populated through messages sent to the list. All it requires is basically calling my script from a cron job, say once every 10 minutes. It looks at all the messages that have been posted, and then either creates new threads (if it's a new topic), or posts replies to existing threads.

Like I mentioned, I wrote this whole thing in one day, so it's bound to have some issues at first, but so far it seems to be working without a glitch. Either tomorrow or the day after, I'll also add support for messages to be sent to the list when a thread or post is created on the forums. This will basically make sure that the content on the forums exactly mirrors the content on the list.

If you guys are interested in making this forum thing happen, then count my vote for PunBB. I'll be happy to help in anything from writing code for integration to moderating the forums. And if not, well, I'm sure someone else out there will like this mod, and I have fun writing it :)

- Max
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