Creating your own Forum

[daath9331]

I'm looking for a tutorial on how to create your own forum. Does anyone have any advice on how to create one?

[Jupac]

make your own takes hundres of hours codeing i suggest you use a pre-made one http://phpbb.com

[daath9331]

make your own takes hundres of hours codeing i suggest you use a pre-made one http://phpbb.com

Thank you for the response, but I'm looking to create my own instead of joining a host.

[Jupac]

????

Download phpbb and use it on your own servers...

[JPnyc]

You have a good chance of making your own if you are an excellent coder in any serverside language, plus the clientside formatting languages and javascript, and even then it will take months to come up with a primitive one.. If not, you probably can't do it, but it would still be a good learnign experience.

[NogDog]

I don't recall ever running into an on-line tutorial on building your own forum from scratch, possibly because it is such a non-trivial task and would be a rather lengthy article (if done correctly). Perhaps you'll need to look for tutorials on each of the various aspects: database design and structure (coming up with a good initial database design can save you a lot of headaches and wasted effort later), user login control and sessions, form input processing, database inserts/updates, database queries and output formatting, security (database and user accounts), etc., etc. and so forth.

[daath9331]

I don't recall ever running into an on-line tutorial on building your own forum from scratch, possibly because it is such a non-trivial task and would be a rather lengthy article (if done correctly). Perhaps you'll need to look for tutorials on each of the various aspects: database design and structure (coming up with a good initial database design can save you a lot of headaches and wasted effort later), user login control and sessions, form input processing, database inserts/updates, database queries and output formatting, security (database and user accounts), etc., etc. and so forth.


Thank you. I will look into that.

[steel horse]

Hi, I just introduced myself in the coffee room and I was hoping that someone could help me out with starting a forum on my web site.

I am using Net Objects 7 for building my site and so far things have been going well. My site is up but I need to give my users a forum or bulletin board so we can share information on motorcycle rides and events.

I checked out this site http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php and I liked how there bulletin boards were set up. I have tried to use it on my site but I cannot get linked or up on my site.

I also like this forum here at webdeveloper. I actually have been to a few sites that use this forum and it is very user friendly.

Is there anyone that can help walk me through setting up a bulletin board.

I am not a webmaster and I am still learning. I do not want to build one from scratch. I would like to use an existing one like they offer with PHP.

I would appreciate any help.

Mark