[CT] QOA Forums

[Dan Moran]

Forums are up and running on QOA. They're a little ragged yet; you don't 
have to be registered to read them, but you do have to be registered (and 
logged in) to post to them. Also some of the base functionality -- Edit 
your own Post after posting it, and Quote someone else's post, aren't 
working yet. There's also no mechanism to delete a post yet, although all 
three of those should be up within a few days.

Not a single new field or table was required for the forums, and only 3 new 
lookup values in the lookup table -- I love my database. (Fair amount of 
code, of course. Weirdly enough, the page gizmo -- the nav tool that lets 
you move from page to page within the Topics and Posts -- took longer than 
any other single piece of functionality. The first 3 ways I tried to do it 
didn't work.)

Upcoming functionality for QOA will include a Search forum covering the 
Quotes DB & Forums; and a couple of pages for browsing public information 
related to other users of the site. After that I'll probably push the 
ratings engine live. You'll be able to rate anything you like -- quotes, 
works by me or by others. (Though rating "works by others" is going to 
present an interesting challenge, since none of those "others" are in my 
database yet, unless I have a quote from them. Certainly no "works" are in 
the works table -- just posts & quotes, so far.)
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