Forums in TYPO3
As 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).
Comments
On 09/01/21 04:26, **[Michael Cannon](http://www.acqal.com/typo3-support.html)** wrote:
Thank you for your TYPO3 contribution of captcha for chc_forum.
Have you other extensions?
On 09/01/21 09:44, Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:
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,
RegoOn 09/01/29 08:54, Michael Cannon wrote:
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?
On 09/01/29 09:13, Manuel Rego Casasnovas wrote:
You can check the extension manual or the wiki at TYPO3 Forge (now they have the same contents).