On Tuesday 16 January 2007 03:27, Dave M G wrote: > PHP Users, > > I'm creating a PHP based forum, and what I'd like to do is have it work > so that people can view and read the information via email, just like a > mailing list The mailing part just need some kind of user list... with particulary an email address as part of the information information. Thereafter you just need to make php send mail to all the users on the list.... with an option to choose not to send to ignorant users ;) > > Yahoo! Groups does this, so I know this sort of thing is possible in > principle. > Somewhere down here I get confused .... do you, as you said with the top statement, just want to read and view? OR do you want the whole package? > But so far as I can tell, open source PHP based forums, like phpBB and > Simple Machines, don't commonly have this feature. Perhaps it's not > possible with PHP? Anyway... here is what we did to get the commodities to let a mail be included on a webpage: It is very possible, me and a friend, built a plugin system for Second Life; Send information to a webpage with mail, of people loggin in on the webpage or the game... we never got around to do the chat part cuz jabber server did the job for us, witch integrated both the web and game cross chatting. We did get the mail messaging working and recognizing ppl from game to the webpage, all information was written to a user database. We had no intentions of building a forum since live chat for 3g mobile phones was our goal, but a forum sounds quite easy in comparison, at a first glance that is... > > I would imagine this is accomplished with a Cron job that checks an > email account and passes the messages to the PHP system for parsing into > the forum. Could be, rather I think some engine like the jabber server would be to prefer... Check out the 2.x branch. > > Can anyone start me off with some tips as to how, and if, this might be > possible? A cron would maby be easier to both work and not so tought on the hardware; it would't be instant thou... > > Thanks for any advice or informaiton. > > -- > Dave M G > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS > Kernel 2.6.17.7 > Pentium D Dual Core Processor > PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
