[Axo1ot1]

I am creating a musician-centric web site with a few people. We have not put it online just yet, but the intention is to have the site be highly community oriented. As such we are using phpBB to do a discussion forum, but we also want to have a second part of the site (separate registrations etc.) That allows users to upload recordings of their music and share it with other users.

We want the following feature set:

? registered users can upload up to 5 music files (probably mp3s)
? registered users have a self-description
? users can search for songs or artists.
? the index page features a randomly selected 'featured artist' and displays the artist's self-description and a list of their music.
? also on that page will be a space for administrators to post messages to users of the site. (this would work like a topic thread more than a forum).
? non-registered users cannot get past the index page

Here is a very basic visualization of what I want it to eventually look like. I disconnected the links on this page, but please respect that the site is not yet open to the public and that we would like to have most of it stay under wraps until it is.

It seems as though it would be a pretty challenging mod, and I don't even know if phpBB is the right platform to build such a service on, but I thought I'd ask if it's feasible and if anyone is interested in helping out. Thanks in advance for any help!

[Amorya]

Why are you having separate registrations? It's the easiest thing in the world to hook onto PHPBB's user registration system, and it saves you writing your own as well (it handles all the cookies and security).

Look at http://www.scifiminds.net - the whole thing sits on top of PHPBB.

If you're interested, I'll post some code.


Amorya

[redJag]

Sounds a lot like netjuke, http://netjuke.sourceforge.net/
Just needs a bit of tweaking to meet your needs.

[Axo1ot1]

right now it looks as though we will be trying to build the expo section with foing.

I'm definitely interested in the posting of code.

Anyone interested in helping out? I'm not really able to pay anyone cus I'm broke and this site isn't really geared toward making money...but it should be a fun and interesting challenge, and a cool thing to put on a resume Here are some omni graffle sketches of what we are trying to acheive. I think this foing mod is a good head start.

[Amorya]

Posting code... ok then

This is to link the site with PHPBB (for user name handling, etc).

At the top of every page should be

Code:
<? define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = 'bboard/';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

//
// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management
//

This has to be the very first thing on the page, no spaces before it or anything. Adjust $phpbb_root_path to whatever you like.

With this in place, you can get the username of the current logged in user at any time by looking at $userdata[username] or the user ID number with $userdata[user_id].

If you want to include the PHPBB header file at the top of every page (the bit with the logo and links), add this code immediately after the first bit:

Code:
	//
	// Start output of page
	//
	$page_title = "Title";
	include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);

That can be useful if you modify the header to be what you want at the top of every page of your site. Check my site for an example of that.

Hope this helps,


Amorya

[Amorya]

Forgot to add: I don't want to commit myself to yet another project (too many as it is!), but I'm always around if you need help with specific things. Either post here or email me. I've done a lot of PHPBB integration before, so I might be able to help you out.

Amorya