Welding together blog, wiki and forum

[esllou]

I have been asked to create an alumni site consisting of a wiki (information about the Uni), a forum (for current and ex students to "connect") and a section comprising "personal pages".

This last section is proving difficult for them to nail down. They mentioned wanting a single page bio with comments enabled and said a full-blown blog would be overkill and result in fragmented pages.

A couple of questions. I had thought of using mediawiki, vBulletin and WordPress for the three separate sections. How much work is it to combine three separate scripts such as these and create an umbrella admin which covers all of them. They all use php/mysql, don't they? So the DB interaction shouldn't be too difficult.

Secondly, does anyone have any ideas for the personal pages section. Is it possible to use a slimmed-down version of WordPress to create single pages of posts (ie. not archived, dated, categorized) with the look and feel and comments retained fromt the original script.

Thanks for any ideas you have.

[bill]

You have the right idea, but it can be challenging to integrate vBulletin with other packages though. You might want to look at Drupal. There is a fork called vbDrupal that integrates the two nicely.