Can vBulliten be used for this?

[B. McLaughlin]

Hello,
I am trying to find a way to do the following and am wondering whether vBulletin could be used.
The site that this would go on is built on Joomla..for what that is worth.

Here is an example of what I am trying to do.
--Unfortunately there is not a direct link, so please bear with me.

Here is how you get to the example.

http://www.sullivanfuneraldirectors.com/

Than click on any of the "Current Visitation" people from the list on the left side. OR click on Visitations on the top menubar and select a person.
Once onto that person's page, you will see that you can:
- Sign Guestbook
- View Guestbook
- Print Guestbook

___I need each of those features listed above__

What I am thinking is that vBulliten would be used as a "Guestbook". Forum topics would be a person that has been added to the list "Current Visitation Names". Add a new person...make a new forum.

There could be 1-5 per week.

At no time would the entire forum with all the people and thier spaces be seen. Again like the example above. You would just see a person's "Guestbook" by going to that person's page...just like the example.

Functions to note-
Each person has there own "Guestbook" ...for obvious reasons I am sure that families of the deceased would not like getting messages to other people.

It would be necessary to keep each person's guestbook from getting spammed and/or some disrespectful person putting comments on people's guest books.
Such as having any entry sent to an admin for approval, or something to keep out spamers at least.

And, one of my issues is that once I set it all up a "non-web" person will be responsible for adding people and their associated "guestbook".
For example if there were a button as part of the tinyMCE WISYWIG editor that a person clicked to add an associated "guestbook" in Joomla. Or if there is a way to easily create a new guestbook/forum that has an associated tag/url/whatever that this person could just copy and paste into the newly created person's page.

Thanks for reading all the way through this question!

[Trigunflame]

Can it be done, yes?
Is there a hack for it? Search :)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Well yes this could be done with vBulletin, but would require quite a lot of changes.

Even though i like the vB community to get bigger (;)), i have the feeling that it would be easier to do what you want with a blog type of script.

Advantage of vBulletin would ofcourse be that it has proven to be stable and secure.

[B. McLaughlin]

Thank you both for the replies.

I thought about, and am also looking at, blog type of set ups. The rep of vB is one of stability and security which is why I am looking at it.

If it make any difference, I was thinking that when a user clicks on "Sign Guestbook" a seperate window would open with a very stripped down window. Name, Email, Comment window only. No emoticon, text enhancements. When the users clicks on "View Guestbook", a new window opens with just a list of comments that have been left.

Does this make any difference?

Thanks again.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

A lot can be done with vBulletin, including this. But to be honest i think vB woul have too much unneeded functions by default and is aimed on discussion boards, and not like a feedback system.

But the simple answer is, yes with some tweaks you could use vB for it.

[B. McLaughlin]

I will put vB high up on the list but will keep poking around for other ideas.

Again thanks-