mboard-e: mboard extension. Multi-forum, bookmarks, contacts

[EasyEddy]

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Title: mboard-e
Version: extension to mboard 1.1
Author: EasyEddy
Demo: http://www.forsterlewis.com/temp/mboard ... oard1_temp
Download: http://www.forsterlewis.com/temp/mboard-e.zip
Website: http://www.forsterlewis.com/temp/mboard ... oard5_temp

Description:
mboard-e is a fairly substantial upgrade to Klemen Stirn's mboard. What it does should be fairly obvious if you look at the demo via the link above.

Please note the installation of mboard-e will NOT migrate your existing mboard forum. The current price for the non-SQL simplicity of mboard is that the migration of existing forums to new versions of the product is difficult.

mboard-e extends mboard to support the following:

* the forum with its config info is now stored in a subdirectory off the main mboard directory so that multiple forums can be supported within a single mboard-e installation.

* formatting information for the forum has been placed in an xml-like configuration file for each forum (boards/board_name/config.cfg) so that the format of the forum can be conveniently changed.

* regular topic post / replies is supported pretty much the name as the regular mboard.

* an additional forum type 'bookmarks' is supported. Topics added to this forum are treated as categories for bookmarks. Bookmarks can be added as 'replies' to these topics, so the forum becomes a convenient collection of your categorized bookmarks.

* an additional forum type 'contacts' is supported. The topics in this forum are fixed as A,B,C..Z, and new contacts are automatically added into each of these categories.

* each forum can have a 'read' password stored in a cookie on your PC. This means the bookmarks and contacts forums can be private to you, making them much more useful than otherwise. This security is fairly amateurish and there is no guarantee against hackers.

* and, hey, for what it's worth, the default install of mboard-e has a little more work gone into the formatting than the current default version of mboard, so from the start you have a prettier forum.
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What's lacking??? There are many things that could be done to improve mboard-e, including:

* it would be useful to configure the forum configuration information via a web form, instead of having to go into the file system of your web server and hand-editting the 'config.cfg' and 'boards_cfg.php' files.

* oh, and loads of other things...

[Klemen]

Nice add-ons EasyEddy!

[arudis]

wow this is good thx

[e.m.]

the links are offline.. is there a place where i can find a new one?

[Klemen]

I'm afraid I don't have any third party mods saved.