We are evaluating CF Forum and are interested in the Open Source version but I need some additional information: - Login Integration We will need to replace the CF Forum login with our current approach which uses Active Directory for authentication and also maintains a separate user table for permissions - is your code structured in a manner that will let us do this? - Headers and Footers We also need to use our own header and footer; how difficult is this? - I see in the documentation that it is possible to moderate user submissions but I did not see this option in the demo; did I miss something or is this by design?
Hi Brian, I replied to your email, but I'll reply here as well.
I have had many customers successfully modify CF Forum to work with their existing user authentication, but since each case was different, I do not know the details of the changes required. CF Forum simply sets session variable when a user logs in and I would assume that you could point CF Forum to your existing member tables fairly easily, provided you're familiar with ColdFusion. All the queries are in individual files for easy modification.
Headers and footers are easy to change. They're individual include files and can be easily changed to "wrap" your existing look and feel around the forum.
The user post moderation was added after the demo was created. The demo lacks many features that currently exist in the full version.
Please let me know if you have any further question.
bcaufield
01-16-2009 @ 1:08 PM