Hi,
I work for www.actiontrip.com which is a gaming site and we're looking into putting forums on the website for our users. We already have a PHP-based system of comments for articles and news, but this is a simple system where you can only reply to the articles or news.
We would like fully functional forums on our website, and I have told my superiors that vBB would be the best choice for us. Because of our hit volume and the prospective amount of users that might use the forum we need something that is fast and reliable. PHP with a MySQL backend seems the right choice.
There are a few questions, however. How much extra bandwidth will the forum use? Is there a way we could at least estimate this to a rough figure. It is not an issue, we just need to know for future growth purposes.
Also, there are a few automated things we will need.
Using the forum for articles (reviews, previews, etc.) is easy. We can just create the topic of the article in the forum and link back to the thread via the article on the website itself.
We do however, need the news comments to be somehow automated. In other words, when we post news on the frontpage, a topic needs to be automatically created in the forums. The news topics will obviously be in a special section dedicated to news, and where users only have access to reply to the threads.
This could also go both ways. The ideal way would be to have the section in the forums, and post news through the forums, and have the forum thread be included on the front page.
In other words, our news posting system IS vBB.
Can someone please comment on this and tell me how everything would work and how easy this will be to integrate. Also, will it be fairly easy to create a vBB theme that matches our site's design?
I work for www.actiontrip.com which is a gaming site and we're looking into putting forums on the website for our users. We already have a PHP-based system of comments for articles and news, but this is a simple system where you can only reply to the articles or news.
We would like fully functional forums on our website, and I have told my superiors that vBB would be the best choice for us. Because of our hit volume and the prospective amount of users that might use the forum we need something that is fast and reliable. PHP with a MySQL backend seems the right choice.
There are a few questions, however. How much extra bandwidth will the forum use? Is there a way we could at least estimate this to a rough figure. It is not an issue, we just need to know for future growth purposes.
Also, there are a few automated things we will need.
Using the forum for articles (reviews, previews, etc.) is easy. We can just create the topic of the article in the forum and link back to the thread via the article on the website itself.
We do however, need the news comments to be somehow automated. In other words, when we post news on the frontpage, a topic needs to be automatically created in the forums. The news topics will obviously be in a special section dedicated to news, and where users only have access to reply to the threads.
This could also go both ways. The ideal way would be to have the section in the forums, and post news through the forums, and have the forum thread be included on the front page.
In other words, our news posting system IS vBB.
Can someone please comment on this and tell me how everything would work and how easy this will be to integrate. Also, will it be fairly easy to create a vBB theme that matches our site's design?
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