: How to build a small personal-like community? The target is to create a community where mostly people will have their own "vault". Like an enhanced diary system. Public areas will exist for
The target is to create a community where mostly people will have their own "vault". Like an enhanced diary system.
Public areas will exist for some common operations, but mostly a user will get into this system because he wants to operate on its data and add/modify them. The "data" may be posts (blog? forum?) or it may be events that need to be tracked privately ...
I want to start on this thought and see where i can get it?
I have thought of the "obvious", that is to combine a CMS wit a forum (like Joomla with phpBB).
Is there a product out there (preferably free) that does my job?
Is it better to start building one of my own?
Update: Thank you all for the answers, i went with phpBB as a forum for a start and Joomla for the wrapping around the forum. RokBridge will serve as a user bridge between them in the future when i will need it. for now joomla has no users.
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I would recomend Wordpress with the Mingle Forum Plugin, it's very nice but simple.
But i would strongly advise against self-coding (if you're not "native" coder).
Don't build your own, there's no need to re-invent the wheel and it will take you long time to incorporate all the features/security/reliability of an existing system.
A magic instant-working paid-for version would be vBulletin with the publishing suite, which is based around each member having their own blog and it's all attached to their forum account.
For free you could use WordPress multi-user with user sign-up open, there are a bunch of plugins out their to tailor the experience to your needs.
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