Forum Software

I'm not referring to Brett's

[chris_f]

I'm looking for some free forum software. It must be written in ASP and powered by a Microsoft Access database using a DSN connection. Are the any recommendations?

Chris.

[txbakers]

Check out some of the offerings at xigla.com

I use their Absolute Live Support which I like.
They have a whole host of ASP products.

But you did say free, though.

Then check out www.aspin.com

[Staffa]

Here's another one snitz.net

[sun818]

WebWizGuide = solid piece of code, excellent speed for ASP. Snitz is bit of a performance hog IMO. Not good for a shared web host.

[chris_f]

I check out the links you have sent. Thanks.

WebWizGuide = solid piece of code, excellent speed for ASP

It doesn't use DSN though.

Chris.

[sun818]

All the forum software can DSN or DSN-less. You just change the connect string. The code is well commented so it is a matter of commenting one line and uncommenting another.

[chris_f]

Thanks Guys,

I've decided to go with Snitz as it's a very small forum of only 15 members (for the technicans at work to keep up to date with bugs).

All the forum software can DSN or DSN-less

WebWizGuide did not have this option and I did not want to play with the code. Believe me I checked. It had alot of option but DSN was not one of them.

Chris.

[jackofalltrades]

I briefly had a look at the snitz software for my site.

Is it fairly straight forward to integrate into a site? (Im not too hot on the technical side of things!).

What about other forums?

[txbakers]

I would think that the snitz forum would be very easy to integrate into a site. That's one of the pleasures of working with ASP over Perl - the embedded HTML is easier to find and manipulate.

[sun818]

hey Chris, if it is not there, you can always write your own string or borrow an example from a web search. Anyway, if you look at forum/common.asp lines 156 and157, you will see the DSN option:

'If you wish to use DSN then comment out the driver above and uncomment the line below (DSN is slower than the above drivers)
'strCon = "DSN=DSN_NAME" 'Place the DSN where you see DSN_NAME

Thanks,
Sun W.

[jackofalltrades]

cheers txbakers

I got the software and have just set up my forum!

Dont the hardest things seem so simple after youve done them?

Now i just need get all the visitors ive fought hard for to interact with the technology!

thanks again

[chris_f]

sun818,

Thanks for the code. I haven't got them lines (I guess I have a different version).

Thanks
Chris.