Where can I find resources on database design?
Topic shoudl say it all 
I'm looking preferably for message forums and examples, trying to get a design for a message forum (making it in PHP).
Thanks!
Topic shoudl say it all
I'm looking preferably for message forums and examples, trying to get a design for a message forum (making it in PHP).
Thanks!
Maverick posted this at 03:34 — 10th June 2000.
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Joined: Dec 1999
If you have any sort of familiarity with PHP and MySQL, the easiest way to do it is to hack an existing freeware forum script. A forum is probably a little too difficult to tackle from scratch as a beginning project. But if you take apart an existing forum (especially a well-commented one), you should be able to follow along and get a good overview of what types of variables and information are stored in the DB, how to store that info and how to retrieve it. Then you should be able to hack various aspects to make it look and perform like you want it to.
Start at: http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Discussion_Boards/
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