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I have been hearing some things about this program called "Community Builder" and i was wondering if people could post there comments on it good or bad, so it helps me invesgate this as an option for my community web site!

I am using and testing the Community Builder on my site http://www.mytestground.com and have had no problems so far. It works very good and has a lot of integration possibilities with other components like instant messaging, forums, blogs, newsletter tools etc.

I can only recommend it. But if you are using Joomla 1.0.5, you need to get you the file includes/database.php from Joomla 1.0.4 and replace it, because there are some problems with the new database.php file from Joomla 1.0.5 and Community Builder.

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Yes! Community Builder RC2 now seems to be the first choice for developing a Joomla community site and a wsie choice too. Like what alexhokamp said, it can be easily integrated with many other components. CB RC2 have intrdouced their own API and framework which allow better integration from other 3PD components and modules. So it looks to be a long term supported product.

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My idea is a Disney Community site, would CB help me with anything of the following or make it better for the people that come visit? I don't want to be closed minded on this, i am willing to do almost anything just want to make a kick ass community site! Thus the reasons i am asking questions about the program!


Community
- News
- Disney Community Chat
- Forum
- Member Reviews

- Beyond the Parks
- Wet & wild
- Universal
- Sea World
- Dinner Threatres
- Photo Gallery


Trip Planning
- Disney Parks
- Magic Kingdom
- Epoc
- Disney-MGM Studios
- Animal Kingdom
- Downtown Disney

- Transportation
- Shuttles
- taxies
- Car rentals

- Accomodations
- Disney Hotels
- Off Site Hotels
- Just for Kids

Well Community Builder RC 2 can do all the community building that you require ;) but not all the other stuff. However, if you visit the dev section of this forum and do a search you find other useful components that will cover your other requirements.

from the top of my head, i think the various components you require are:

Community --> community Builder RC2 (CB RC 2) - be careful they have discovered some issues running it under Joomla! 1.0.5
- News --> Joomla! default Blogs
- Disney Community Chat --> Agora chat as it works with CB RC 2
  - Forum --> SimpleMachine but i think CB RC 2 works better with JoomlaBoard
- Member Reviews --> XTDRatings: http://www.joomlaratings.com/content/view/207/40/
 
- Beyond the Parks
  - Wet & wild
  - Universal
  - Sea World
  - Dinner Threatres
- Photo Gallery --> Zoom Gallery
 

Trip Planning --> not sure? but FacileForm might be a good start
- Disney Parks
  - Magic Kingdom
  - Epoc
  - Disney-MGM Studios
  - Animal Kingdom
  - Downtown Disney

- Transportation --> again FacileForm
  - Shuttles
  - taxies
  - Car rentals

- Accomodations --> AKReservations or Mosforms
  - Disney Hotels
  - Off Site Hotels
- Just for Kids


If you require different custom group members access, check out JACLplus: http://www.byostech.com/

Best solution is to test them out on a test server and see which one are compatible with community Builder as this will be your core component you need. I suggest snipping over to Community Builder's site: http://www.joomlapolis.com/ to ask which components works best.

All the best,

Sunburst

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Just in case you don't know where to get it go to http://www.joomlapolis.com

Join the site and check out your profile. This is what it can do for you.

Some of the modules you can get for it are at their old site: http://www.mambojoe.com

zoom for gallery, latest version quite stable and there is a plugin for CB too, but at some aspects the integration could have been taken further, but here is not the place to do that talking
open-realty (or) for at least your accommodation and transportation sections, using the joomla bridge

Further on OR
You would be best served spending some time with OR, which considering the name sounds all realty business but is not AT ALL limited to it, and is quite generic in all aspects, and the joomla bridge works very well too. In OR you will be able to define your own fields, and how they should be showed in a listing through a template
You will also be able to define which of your fields will be search fields, search methods to be applied, search result fields and where on a template section they will be placed.
If all the fixed template locations feels too limited, you could go and pick out each field and associated attributes in a template of your own. There are templates for search boxes, search results, listings, which gives you total flexibility.
I could go on, but I think you should take a look at it yourself, and then at last I think there is a commercial addon which allows for a pay system integration if you want your customers to pay for listings.

The only thing with OR is why there are no sites built with it which looks nice, every single of them I have seen looks quite ..., wait until my site is done sometimes at the end of this month

good luck

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I am making a website for my big band, with the following structure:

Public:
-News
-About us
-Coming arrangements/concerts
-Members
    *Individual page for each member, which can be updated by the specified user
-Booking page
-Buy our records
-Guestbook
(-Photo gallery)

Private (only for band members):
-News
-Discussion board
-Photo gallery (would be nice if it's possible to decide that some of the pictures can be shown in the public album)
-Internal competitions and rankings
-Blogs for each member

Is this possible to make with CB? Can you please help me out on which components to use? I am a complete newbee with Joomla and CB.

Thanks in advance!

http://www.joomlapolis.com  The CB community is great. Go post on their forum. I'm sure you'll get great advise.

Try josCommunity, you find it in the dev sectin of this site. It is CB with many other add-ons too.

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Now gullars let me try to answer your question

Public:
-News (Without any additional components, directly in Joomla!)
-About us (Without any additional components, directly in Joomla!)
-Coming arrangements/concerts (Gigcalendar)
-Members (User home pages)
    *Individual page for each member, which can be updated by the specified user
-Booking page (Attend Events in combination with Events or simply AKReservations, or this one which I know nothing of but looks promising Event List)
-Buy our records (hmmm, here I really have no idea, but some I have seen around and seems quite well done is Virtuemart)
-Guestbook (Resource, guest book section)
(-Photo gallery) (Zoomgallery, Resource gallery section)

Private (only for band members):
-News (In joomla! without any addition)
-Discussion board (Joomlaboard )
-Photo gallery (would be nice if it's possible to decide that some of the pictures can be shown in the public album) (Look above)
-Internal competitions and rankings (Hmmm, need to be more specific)
-Blogs for each member (Resource, blog section)

Now in most of the cases you have several choices, so you would serve yourself best if you browse through the whole resource page and see the options, and make some tests yourself, it actually will be worth it, after all, you yourself know your specific needs best.

Happy Joomla!

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Thanks for the answers! I really appreciate it 

I will try the components you recommended gobezu, and find out which ones works best for me.