forum admin/ownership

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I would like to enhance the code to do the following.

instead of a single community forum for all to see and some to edit I want an instance of forum data belonging to every user. The idea is that the user can edit and admin his "MyForum" forum but can only view other user's forums.

I intend to visually wrap the forum on the templates, but use the MVC engine inside the jforum as the engine for my site. Thus, I have been creating the other classes to be compliant with the architecture in jforum and have the beginnings of a working "MyAlbums" area.

The short of it is I am usign the engine in jforum and the forum functionality itself to create a social networking site for a graduate project. Probably stupid, but this is what I am doing.

So, using the engine buys me working security, a working forum with some changes in organization, and an engine that I can create other components for.

The ideas I have so far.
MyForum
MyAlbum - photos
MySwapshop - crap for sale
MyFriends - other users you like

overall, the assignment was to use what we have learned in the class to creat a facebook like website...


so any ideas?
[originally posted on jforum.net by asellon]

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That's great idea. Last whole week I was trying to find any j2ee social networking application on sourceforge.net. Couldn't find one. Do you know of any open source project for social networking (j2ee)?

By the way, I am also interested in this project. Let meknow how I can contribute.
[originally posted on jforum.net by ripon]

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The security rights model supports adding new permissions into the system. E.g, you could add a "forum_admin' or "category_admin" permission that can be granted to forums / categories.

However, you will have to look thru the admin code very carefully to determine what changes need to be made to recognize these new permissions.

From what you describe, it sounds like you may have to write your own myplace (TM) admin system anyway.
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]