We´ve been talking about setting up a forum for a while for NHS Forum and although I´ve done a few minor ones in the past they didn´t need any user profiles, moderators or anything so were pretty simple. But this one is more along the lines of the big ones and since its for the medical community then it needs all the bells and whistles.
I talked about it with my boss and figured it would take me about 6 months to write all the code for my own version and that to buy vBulletin would cost about ?80. Since this is a little less than my wages for 6 months we thought that would be the best option. I showed him a few of the forums I go on and we came up with what we wanted and I checked out the site to make sure it´d do everything we wanted. It was all good so we went and bought a copy.
I´ve still got to install it and have a play around but one of the things that I like is that it´s modular and PHP so I can start messing around and altering it. The first thing will be to set it so only those with a .nhs email address can sign up since its for the health service only. I´ll post next week about how I get on.
Finally got me a copy of vBulletin
– July 7, 2005Posted in: Web Development