I recommend it highly: It's pretty easy to customize and to implement. I have a friend who knows some real web programming that's helping me to customize the board, but most of what I wanted I was able to accomplish with HTML and style sheets.
If you're dusty on the script/SQL side make sure that you get one that has an admin panel. I don't think AcmlmBoard v1.65 has one, CRZ ?
Also you need to take into account what you have access to on your host i.e. you'll have trouble running ASP.NET with an ACCESS backend if your supplier runs an Apache server on a Unix box.
You'll also need to make sure that your supplier will allow write access from internet users (usually they supply a writable \cgi dir that you dump you database in and its OK)
So you need: 1. Find out your server/host type 2. Find out what tools you have access to (PhP, Perl, Postgres, SQLServer, ASP, JSP, etc.) 3. Select a board that uses the tech you have access to. There are plenty around. Quite a few people hae gone to the trouble of doing admin panels as well. 4. Test drive a few to find some you like. 5. If you can be bothered, bone up on SQL and the chosen script lang (step 3). They're not really that hard.
Tell me to pull my head in if you already knew all this
Acmlm board has no admin panel in 1.65, but really, who is left running a stock 1.65? Anyone who hasn't customized their board heavily is on 1.8 or higher.
This board is more wiener than acmlm at this point. There are some things that look the same, but we've implemented most of them ourselves - and probably quite differently than most acmlm boards.
At some point, we should probably ditch the remaining ACMLM elements (basically, the post layout, experience and levels, and non-compliant HTML.
I'd say that even though it looks like acmlm board default stuff, we've altered over 60% of the php significantly by now.
Willful ignorance of science is not commendable. Refusing to learn the difference between a credible source and a shill is criminally stupid.
Besides, technically I re-wrote the calendar months earlier, I just never actually made it not look like ass.
//edit: speaking of which, I really need to finish the text only mode and spell checker at some point.
(edited by Guru Zim on 16.9.03 0533) Willful ignorance of science is not commendable. Refusing to learn the difference between a credible source and a shill is criminally stupid.
CRZ & Guru - Take it from a professional corporate golf whore (and someone who is code illiterate) - you both need to take a day off and go play 18 holes...... :)
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Hey, who knows, maybe if you put in polls (your call), you could make them editable in a way that doesn't fuck them up. (flogs Jesper from the Mothership for doing that... then realizes he couldn't code polls either) That and there's a whole assload of hacks (dunno if the Brothers Zim have looked at or used them) at the DragonEyeStudios.net (forums.dragoneyestudios.net) forums.
As for the Acmlmboard system... if you're really patient, you could probably nab 2.0 whenever that comes out. But CRZ'll probably be recapping again long before then.
Originally posted by Guru ZimAcmlm board has no admin panel in 1.65, but really, who is left running a stock 1.65? Anyone who hasn't customized their board heavily is on 1.8 or higher.
This board is more wiener than acmlm at this point. There are some things that look the same, but we've implemented most of them ourselves - and probably quite differently than most acmlm boards.
At some point, we should probably ditch the remaining ACMLM elements (basically, the post layout, experience and levels, and non-compliant HTML.
I'd say that even though it looks like acmlm board default stuff, we've altered over 60% of the php significantly by now.
Yeah I imagined you guys would be running a tweaked set-up. More making the comment for guys who get hold of a stock'n and wonder why it doesn't run like wienerboard