PHP Message Board - All posts must be screened - HELP PLEASE 4

[tmkersh]

Hello. I am trying to find a message board where all posts can be screened first by the moderator before being put onto the message board itself. Snitz forums does this, but that is written in ASP, not PHP. Unfortunately the message board I am looking for must be written in PHP.

If anyone knows of such a message board, please could they help.

Many thanks,
Tom.

 

[sleipnir214]

I'd be frankly suprised if PHP-Nuke didn't have that functionality, either natively or through a plug-in:

http://phpnuke.org

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[hos2]

otherwise you write it yourself, a messageboard is not that hard to code with the things you ask

 

[ingresman]

I would think phpbb would allow moderated forums

 

[jstreich]

It wouldn't be hard to modify a lot of exsisting boards to have this feature. Personally, I don't like to post to a forums that require posts to be screened first... but that is neither here nor there.

In most cases you'd just have to add a flag to the forum table in the DB (default false), and add a condition to the code displays the results from the database:

if(approved)
 //display stuff

The code in the moderator display would add the option to approve a post if the post isn't approved yet, and the mods would already have the option to delete posts in most forums so the change wouldn't be all that big. Then atop the forum page where you look at the options past to PHP, include a check for the approval varible and if it isn't null make a DB call to flip the flag.

PHPx (

http://www.phpx.org)

is a forum/news/etc. that is open source (GPL's) and the author is very responsive to imput. I am running an older version of his code, but the new version may have that feature (if it doesn't if you ask for it he may add it in his next release).

 

[MrBelfry]

I have a guestbook app that uses the solution suggested by jstreich and i have found it very useful. However a forum is much more dynamic and unless you had a full time team of moderators you would lose that dynamism. If i posted on tek-tips and had to wait a few hours before my post was read and approved than i would probably stop posting.

MrBelfry

http://www.mrbelfry.co.uk