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As far as ruby is concerned, there's not really an "out of the box" solution for forums. (Not any really good ones anyway.) There are a couple of awesome authentication gems (i.e. devise and authlogic), so if you're wanting to roll your own, that's a really good place to start.

I agree with everyone else though that you should just do the simple solution and go with something that's been tested in the real world.

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03-29-2011 , 10:55 AM

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ASP.net membership system could be a happy medium for you between a prebuilt one and one you customise yourself, it's very flexible.

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03-29-2011 , 08:43 PM

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greg nice

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i've been messing with Drupal and its pretty good for me so far

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03-29-2011 , 10:32 PM

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i've been messing with Drupal and its pretty good for me so far

I've had terrible experiences with Drupal, where between versions they change the semantics of API functions, making upgrading custom code to be a hassle and a half.

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03-29-2011 , 10:39 PM

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I'll agree with that. We had one large project that used Drupal - and it didn't go that well.

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03-31-2011 , 05:14 AM

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Go with the codeigniter framework. I've only been learning php for about 2 weeks now and feel with this framework I will have a site up with a lot of what you mentioned by next week

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Check out this video tutorial to see how you like it. It uses the MVC model (didn't have a clue what that was until a week ago

) its awesome.

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04-02-2011 , 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by freedom18

Go with the codeigniter framework. I've only been learning php for about 2 weeks now and feel with this framework I will have a site up with a lot of what you mentioned by next week

!

Check out this video tutorial to see how you like it. It uses the MVC model (didn't have a clue what that was until a week ago

) its awesome.

CodeIgniter. 2.0 is a huge improvement, too - auto-including CSRF is great plus moving /applications out of /system is an obvious choice.

If you use CI, I would use tankauth as your auth library of choice. Very easy to use and relies on one-way hashed password checks generated by PHPass.

But generally WP over https with any auth plugin will be the simplest route.