[Gllug] Forum software

[Xander D Harkness]

Simon Stewart wrote:

>I've been involved with a number of sites where the designers have
>thought "a forum would be really nice". I'm now starting to squeeze
>requirements out of people, and the current show-stoppers are:
>
>*) The admin of a forums has to be the only one able to add new
>users. Most of the time, that is. "Hiding" the URL isn't going to be
>good enough for this one, I'm afraid.
>
>*) Different forums need to have different membership lists. User
>names can overlap between these forums (I'm willing to bodge this with
>seperate installs of the forum software, but would prefer not to)
>
>*) Each forum can have several subforums.
>
>Anyone got any ideas of suitable software? Ideally, I'd like to avoid
>using something based on PHP, because most of the forum software that
>I've seen written using that is riddled with holes (think:
>PHPNuke. PostNuke is little better) Perl might be fine, as would
>Java. Running on Postgres would be a Good Thing too.
>
>Currently Jive, Slash and Scoop are the ones that I'm thinking of, but
>none of them really offer the first thing, I believe, and I'm not sure
>how secure they are.
>
>Haven't really got enough time to write my own, though I'd be willing
>to if I did. That and a Blogger. And a Content Management System.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Simon
>
>  
>
You might want to have a look at ikonboard
http://www.ikonboard.com

It allows you to set up different forums and hide forums from certain 
groups and I believe have different admins for each.

It is really quite flexible.  It does use php though... :-)

Cheers
Xander


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