Pulling content from a forum. Is ModX good for this?

Hello,

I need a CMS that integrates a forum, PHPBB or SMF, and uses user generated content, puts it into the forum and also pulls it into the main page. Of course, I could go deeper into it, but this is the general idea. A certain user, will be able to use a form, to submit an article, which will be place in a certain area of the forum and also displayed on the main page.

It’s kind of like pulling the latest posts. But I don’t just want the links to the latest posts, but also be able to actually get the post information, all the raw bbcode and such and actually use it on the main page as if it was written as an article and not just a forum post.

Is Modx capable of doing this?

And is there a seamless integration into PHPBB or SMF currently? The biggest problem with integrations is when there’s mods in PHPBB and there’s mods in the ModX, and there needs a bridge too and it get’s really cumbersome to update everything all together and hoping that there’s no conflicts at the end of the day. Basically, seamless and simple integration would be great, but integrated forum such as fireboard for joomla would be better.

If, so, then I’d better go cracking on the documentation of ModX

I know there is an SMF bridge for modx and you can use the features of ssi.php (examples of the stuff you can do with ssi: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/ssi_examples.php)

I have used this method to pull news from a board (restricted to a group of "trusted" posters) and then put that on my site using a template of my choice. Granted this is a rather basic example of the power offered by the ssi file so have a look at what it can do. modx will take whatever you feed it and then do whatever you tell it and then plug it into your website, granted depending on your end goal you might need to do a little coding of your own to get that functionality.

Hope that’s of some assistance,
AMDbuilder

Wow, nice.

So is ssi.php part of ModX or part of the bridge or part of SMF?

Also, I guess this is the one I’ll be using?



I guess there will be some hacking involved to get that function to work with not only news, but sections within the forum?

Hello,

That’s part of SMF and you can pick what board it pulls from without much hacking.

AMDbuilder