Inside Technique : Adding Discussion Forums : The ASP Scripts

Our ASP scripts are designed to act as the foundation for your discussion forums. The user-interface is minimal and designed to just expose necessary functionality. We created three ASP pages for administering the discussion forums four ASP pages that provide the end-user experience:

User Pages
forums.asp	Dipslay a list of each discussion forum and a description.
viewForum.asp	Display a list of messages within a specific forum.
viewTopic.asp	Displays an individual message with all the replies. This page includes a form for replying to the thread.
startTopic.asp	Displays a form for starting a new topic.
Administration Pages
editForum.asp	Allows you to select a forum to edit or to add new forums.
AdminForum.asp	Used to edit the messages within an individual forum.
adminTopic.asp	Used to edit or delete an individual message or reply.

The user pages integrate with the site membership information introduced in our first article. If you are not logged in, you can only read the articles. To post or reply to an article, you must be logged into the system.

Next we take you through the user pages.

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