Is SM the right tool for me - and USER GROUP HOME PAGES

[青山 素子]

2)  Use a forum script, and a separate blog script.  Combine the two.  Bonus - great components individually.  Drawbacks:  hard to integrate, sharing users can be sketchy, or you need totally separate login/accounts.

You might want to look at LifeType. It has a rather nice way to bridge user accounts, although I haven't looked into that in depth. I have considered building the bridge (really just a few files defining SMF's schema) to get them to work when i get time.

If you want blogs more integrated into SMF, I hear zCommunity works well.

[j22]

2)  Use a forum script, and a separate blog script.  Combine the two.  Bonus - great components individually.  Drawbacks:  hard to integrate, sharing users can be sketchy, or you need totally separate login/accounts.

You might want to look at LifeType [nofollow]. It has a rather nice way to bridge user accounts, although I haven't looked into that in depth. I have considered building the bridge (really just a few files defining SMF's schema) to get them to work when i get time.

If you want blogs more integrated into SMF, I hear zCommunity works well.

Thanks for the tips.  I'll look at the lifetype thing in a sec...

zCommunity is pretty much "spot on" with what I'm going for.  I believe the owner is redoing the structure as a standalone with a SMF bridge, so I'm waiting to see how it fleshes out.  If his grouping tools are good, I may go that direction.

Phpbb has a really nice community mod also, but its fairly outdated to the newest version of the forum software.  It did show me a good way to integrate forums with community, however.  Also, I really prefer SMF and MyBB forums to Phpbb.

[SoLoGHoST]

Just my 2 cents... (which I seem to have a lot of these days )
I used to have a phpBB Forum and have coded MODs for it, though I tell you, as a mod developer for SMF, I don't ever wanna go back to coding for phpBB ever again.  SMF is just a lot of fun coding for and just about all of it makes perfect sense.  Is much easier than phpBB to understand, cept for the Smiley's section could use a bit of improvement IMO (as I think phpBB's adding of Smiley's was a bit easier to understand and add new smileys).  Still SMF is the BEST FREE Forum out there IMO.

Cheers

[greyknight17]

j22, is this issue resolved now? If so, you may click on the button to mark it as solved.