Disscusion Group

[Doug Mac]

New to all this. Can anyone give me some advice or a link to a sample to set
up a disscusion group on a existing site. with the following
Members must fill out a members details form with password etc
Then for them to log in they then must use thier user name and password
I have a site with front page extension enabled but I dont know hoe the data
base or the record of information is stored and retrived.
Thanks in advance

 

[Andrew Murray]

You can't do the password protection thing within the Frontpage discussion
wizard, unless you put the discussion list in a sub-web and password protect
the subweb (this is kind of complicated, if as you said, you're new to
Frontpage - it's not really a thing for beginners, unless you feel
adventurous and confident in achieving the outcome you want....

Alternatively, try www.hotscripts.com or www.bignosebird.com for discussion
forum scripts.

You'll need to be able to run Perl/CGI scripts or ASP or PHP depending on
your server and whatever your host allows (they might even offer such a
script themselves - ask them, many hosts do provide several sorts of scripts
eg form mailer, discussion list, database support (either Access or SQL)
etc.).

One I used a few years ago was a Perl/CGI script(s) solution free
(open-source) from www.yabb.com (YABB = "Yet Another Bulletin Board") - it
runs on Unix/Linux and uses nothing more than flat-text files for the
databases (no complicated Access or SQL stuff to worry about).

It takes a bit of setting up and an understanding of file unix permissions
is needed, and would probably work best being uploaded with something
likeWS_FTP or the like rather than through FP itself, as you need to set
some file permissions, which FP can't do in the same way you can with WS_FTP
or other FTP client. The good thing is it does have
user-registration/login, which is one thing you said you needed.

Hope this gets you started.

 

[Doug Mac]

Many thanks Andrew,
Thats the info I was after
Regads Doug