Online discussion boards.
Create online discussion boards to exchange ideas and information any time from any Internet-connected computer. Online discussions can create community and support collaboration.
Dependencies
Solstice - Solstice is a Web application development framework for Perl. Based on the MVC programming paradigm, it provides a sensible layout for Web applications that helps you write applications faster and with fewer mistakes.
ThemePark - Themepark is where you can find themes or skins to change the look and feel of Solstice applications.
CrowdControl - CrowdControl provides widgets that let your application group users together for purposes of authentication, notification, and so forth.
FCKEditor - A Solstice wrapper around a rich-text editor. This application provides centralized HTML-editing capabilities to Solstice applications, leveraging the FCK Editor project.
Installation
After following direction at Installing Solstice, you're ready to install GoPost. As with Solstice, you have the option to install from a tar file, or from subversion.
Installing Perl Prerequisites
GoPost requires Text::CSV_XS and HTML::Parser. If you're using Ubunutu, you can run the following to install it:
sudo apt-get install libtext-csv-perl libhtml-parser-perl
Otherwise you can install it via CPAN:
sudo cpan
cpan> install Text::CSV_XS HTML::Parser
Downloading Tar Files
cd solstice_apps
Download the current GoPost tarball from http://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/download/GoPost-current.tar.gz
tar -xvzf GoPost-current.tar.gz
Using Subversion
cd solstice_apps
svn co https://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/svn/gopost/trunk/ gopost
Configuring GoPost
cd gopost
cp example_config.xml config.xml
In the <keys> section, the following can be changed:
- TEMP_PATH:
- protocol:
- board_host:
- help_url:
- FIRST_VISIT_MINS:
- WHOS_ONLINE_MINS:
- POST_CHECK_SECONDS:
- max_avatar_size:
- participant_list_avatar_size:
- min_conversation_list_size_for_btn:
- noreply_address:
- use_search:
- conversations_per_page:
- posts_per_page:
- allowed_login_realm:
Create the GoPost database
mysql -u solstice -p
mysql> create database gopost;
mysql -u solstice -p gopost < install/app.sql
Restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Sources
Browse the sources online
SVN Checkouts
Please note that our SVN servers only accept SSL connections - don't forget that https://!
Tarballs