I'm working on a web site that is currently running quite a few seperate components (bulletin boards, live chat, etc) - unfortunately all seperate logins... but I'm ignoring that until the last minute... the problem might go away. :D

Anyway, once I've tallied all the logins into a nice easy simple login for the user, I'd like them to have a mini-site as well. It's kind of a community site, so something for them to put pics on, upload their HTML pages, load in profile info from IkonBoard, etc. Something tiny like a 1Mb limit, subdomain, etc.

Is there a script out there that is going to make my life easier, or should I just ignore it and hope it will go away too? ;)

There are 40 here:
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Homepage_Communities/

I haven't tried any but I'm sure one at least will work. They also come in PHP and other flavors if you prefer.

Thanks for the link - I've had a shifty at these, but the only good looking one on the list is CommunityWeaver... a staggering $999. :bawling:

I wish I had that kind of money, but until my site's up and running (and where have we heard this one before: gawd knows if the site will make any money for me to pump back into it).. I really can't afford anything more than the hosting costs.

Maybe I'm just being too optimistic on a budget of 6 cans of Coke and half-a-pack of Marlboro :(

And a £4000 credit card bill to pay off in 3 days!! :angry: (I ignored it.. the problem didn't go away)

Anyway thanks again - I'll keep hunting.

<< EDIT >>

Over in the General Web Hosting forum, a guy happened to mention http://www.0catch.com (Zero Catch) - typical GeoCities style site. They run a partnership programme which apparently lets you use their stuff on your web site, with your branding, etc - and you get 50% of banner impressions. :beer:

But then again, I was tempted by http://www.bigmailbox.com for my web mail, but now desperately trying to set up my own script for it.

Should I stick to scripts, or externally hosted services? :scatter:

Sorg

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but take a look @ http://communityarchitect.com . Good luck on your CC bill :)

Well, you might want to look at solutionscripts.com

They have what you are looking for.

As for the bb and stuff like that, having same passwords, with homefree, if you know perl you can hack it to intigrate it with homefree and ikonaboard. Its acually not that hard.

Another one is http://www.megagiga.com -- though I don't have any personal experience with them.

:nuts: Wow, thanks guys - all these are perfect! Can't wait to get my hands on them now LOL

Yeah, I can vaguely hack around with scripts.. I've played with UBB a while back, so I should be okay. I don't envy the poor sods that support the scripts tho :D

Thanks again, I'm on a roll! (except the credit card bit..)

Sorg

For Ikonboard, or any other ubb, just requires minipulating what they do. Just see what the board does when a user is added. For example ikonboard makes a file membername.cgi
In that is the user info. So you just see what they put and were and have the other program make the file.

If you decide to use ikonboard, pop me a PM and I will see what I can do