I'm working with a buddy of mine on a pretty large web portal project for the computer based demoscene, a site that I call SceneSpot (http://www.scenespot.org). It's done in perl and mySQL with apache. We have a cookie system and a membership system in place (where they can have a login, change preferences, etc). I would like to implement some sort of forums into the system. Honestly, I dont' know exactly where to begin.

Considering that I want to integrate the forums with each news brief, or other items within the site, I can't really adapt one of those open source forum systems that's already out there. I am envisioning some sort of system that uses the same login information, and allows users to reply on the spot -- just like they do at Slashdot, or here for that matter.

I went browsing CPAN, and I didn't realy come up with much luck. Perhaps I'm going about things the wrong way. I could use a few pointers in the right direction. Considering the amount of integration I want, would a pm do any service for me here?

As an additional note...are there any loopholes or potential problems that I might have to code for that I might be overlooking? So far, I realize that I will likely have to create a way to parse HTML commands out so that people don't screw up my page's HTML. I can't think of any other potential problems of having a forum.

--Coplan

Edit kudra, 2002-02-20 Corrected typo in title

In reply to Where to begin on coding a forum by Coplan

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