Making a Custom Forum
 

i was wondering if you could take python and make a custom forum with it. like the forums we are using here. where you have the login and things. with the admin panel.

'Course you could. Check out CherryPy.

Or Django, or Turbogears, which provide a Ruby-on-Rails like framework to construct your web-app on. Turbogears uses CherryPy, incidentally, but also adds in a templating system (Kid) and a database persistance layer (SQLObject). Django does something similar, and also provides an administrative back end.

I made forums in CherryPy + Python. It's very quick and easy to do, but trust me... it requires some intelligent thinking to make it work efficiently. Especially if you want to implement BBCode manually like I did. O_O :)

bbcode?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bbcode


... T_T

Zope is a good one too.