recommend an api-enabled forum for private members?

[Kevin Yeandel]

Hi

I want to set up a private forum for a number of franchisees.
Ideally I'd like to script/automate the creation/deletion of accounts.

Are there any recommended pre-configured forums that support the api/script feature?

I've started reading up about google groups but doesn't look ideal

Many thanks

Kevin

[cmcp]

Most of them should be able to handle some sort of account creation by csv, if you have a list of the usernames etc to inject.

[Peter Bowen]

We've got a v-bulletin forum (same software as this one) running with automatic creation of users. It's not a built in feature but I wrote a php script that does the work.

Last I looked they didn't have an API so you have to write directly to the database.