Forums in TYPO3
January 20, 2009 on 9:43 pm | In English, Planet, TYPO3 | 5 CommentsAs part of the Mancomún project we need to use a forum with the next features:
- Anonymous users
- Captcha prevention
- RSS
- BBCode
So I’ve been testing different TYPO3 extensions:
mm_forum: The most used and with community and recent activity. Only one problem not logged users can’t write posts.chc_forum: Not updated since 2006. Without Captcha prevention. RSS feed is added with another extension.wec_discussion: An active extension, but with a forum system quite simple and without BBCode support.
All of them miss some of the required features. After some tests I decided to use chc_forum, mainly because we’ve already used it in a previous project and another extension already provides Captcha prevention, but it’s not working properly.
I’d prefer to use mm_forum but it was more difficult to add the missed feature. I’ve added a new issue and I hope that this feature will be implemented in order to improve this great extension.
Finally, the result is:
- A new TYPO3 extension
chc_forum_captcha, based onchc_forum_popupsource code, that adds Captcha prevention tochc_forum. - A little patch for
chc_forum_feed, because it was not detecting the website protocol (HTTP or HTTPS).
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Thank you for your TYPO3 contribution of captcha for chc_forum.
Have you other extensions?
Comment by Michael Cannon — January 21, 2009 #
Hello Michael,
yes we have more extensions published.
For example:
* gl_transstat: If you have a multilanguage website, I strongly recommend you to install this extension. It makes very easy create translations for pages and records. This extension is very useful.
* gl_pages_cat: Allows to relate pages with tt_news categories and filter tt_news plugins depending on page categories.
* tipafriend_captcha: Like chc_forum_captcha but for Tip-A-Friend extension.
* accessible_ratings: It’s based on ratings extension, but this works without JavaScript.
Thanks for your comment,
Rego
Comment by Manuel Rego Casasnovas — January 21, 2009 #
I use accessible_ratings for Acqal Blogging. It works like a charm.
Is there documentation or lives samples f gl_pages_cat that you can share?
Comment by Michael Cannon — January 29, 2009 #
You can check the extension manual [1] or the wiki at TYPO3 Forge [2] (now they have the same contents).
[1] http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/gl_pages_cat/0.1.4/view/
[2] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/extension-gl_pages_cat
Comment by Manuel Rego Casasnovas — January 29, 2009 #