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| Phorum Blog How-To |
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| This document describes how to create a forum which can be used as a blog. |
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| 1. Create the Blog Forum |
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| 1. When creating the forum, you should set `Visible` to `No`. This |
| will keep it out of the normal forum list; |
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| 2. The template will use the forum's name as the title of the page; |
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| 3. Set the forum to allow only reading by anyone. |
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| 2. Create a write group |
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| 1. Go to `Edit Groups`; |
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| 2. Add a group by creating a new group. e.g. Blog Writers; |
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| 3. Click on the group name to edit it; |
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| 4. Add the blog forum to the group and grant `Read`, `Reply`, |
| `Create New Topics`, `Edit Their Posts`; |
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| 5. You can create additional groups for moderation of comments, etc. |
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| 3. Make a cool script (optional) |
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| Somehow, you have to point people at the blog. You could make a redirect |
| using any number of things to redirect your readers to the appropriate URL |
| (list.php?1, where 1 is the forum id of the blog forum). However, I like |
| the following method. Let's asume you want the blog to be a page called |
| blog.php. Then create blog.php like this: |
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| <?php |
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| chdir("/full/path/to/phorum"); |
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| // Below, "1" is the forum_id for the blog forum |
| $PHORUM_CUSTOM_QUERY_STRING="1"; |
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| include_once "./list.php"; |
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| ?> |
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| If you wanted your front page to be the blog, just create index.php and |
| put this in it. |
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| TODO |
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| At the time of writing, there are still several parts of the default |
| template that are not yet converted to the blog template. Control Center |
| for example. |
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