phpBB would be definitely the best choice in my opinion as stated above if the software is been updated then there wouldn't be much risks but I feel like SMF is a little bit easy and customizable but still I love phpBB!
phpBB would be definitely the best choice in my opinion as stated above if the software is been updated then there wouldn't be much risks but I feel like SMF is a little bit easy and customizable but still I love phpBB!
The reason people are unsure is because your thread title states "forum" and your opening posts states "form".
What do you mean by a "simple" forum? Even a most basic one will need registration, usernames displayed, posts and thread organisation, moderator management to delete/prune and manage forums, threads, posts and users.
Posting functionality, users editing or deleting their own posts, profiles, etc etc.
This is quote a lot of work to make one.
Is there a reason why you want to make your own? There are already pre-made ones out there such as PHPBB, Drupal (which this forum uses), vbulletin as well as others.
There are many out there, but the reason to use a well known pre-made one is it will be secure and updated.
Hey everyone , there allot of confusion because of my mistakes i wanted to make a forum but didnt know how to make or in what language to make it , so i thought let everyone help eveyone in making a forum. Now we will make a forum , we need a:
1) registration page
2) page everyone posts their entries
what else ? and how do we get started ......
and if we can make some with drupal how can we customise or edit to change like the colours and other stuff
" Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates "
Now we will make a forum , we need a:
1) registration page
2) page everyone posts their entries
what else ? and how do we get started ......
I made a "basic" list in my last post.
greg wrote:
registration, usernames displayed, posts and thread organisation, moderator management to delete/prune and manage forums, threads, posts and users.
Posting functionality, users editing or deleting their own posts, profiles
That is a "basic" outline of the minimum requirements.
I'm not sure what you are wanting.
I've listed everything you need to make a forum, other than making you an actual 100% design plan with EVERYTHING you will need to do and how to do it, there is "nothing next".
For someone with a good understanding of PHP, MYSQL, HTML and CSS, who's a relatively quick coder, to make a "basic" forum - about 6-8 weeks from coding 10 hours a day 6 days a week.
And that would give you a "basic" forum with some "basic" functionality and simple styling.
ok how to make a registration page , guys this post i made is for everyone to come and contribute in making a forum , by what ever knowledge they have..
You will need a form to take details - username, password, email etc
And store their inputs in the DB when you have checked they are ok.
When they want to login you check the username and password they enter is in the database.
If found, log them in, else message "incorrect login".
zerocool wrote:
this post i made is for everyone to come and contribute in making a forum , by what ever knowledge they have..
I, as do many others here, have the knowledge needed to make a forum from start to finish. But as I said, it's a LOT of work, so listing every detail of everything necessary is not really practical in a forum.
It's not even practical to make a tutorial on it.
But I am still curious why to build something from scratch and do not use something pre-made?
Also you can customize the pre-made forum as you prefer which will make it very good indeed.
Also if you consider the time you spend for coding a forum from scratch to put it into customizing a pre-made forum you will end up with amazing looking forum.
i have a very littler understand of php and none if you ask me about mySQL and i understands that mysql is very important because i get allot of php tuts but when it comes to MySql i always get confused
To make a forum requires a lot of knowledge in PHP and a great deal in MYSQL too.
If you are wanting to learn how to make a forum, you will need to learn PHP and MYSQL first (and of course HTML and CSS to create and style the layout).
As has been asked a few times, why do you want to discuss how to make a forum from scratch? If you need one, there are already plenty of pre-coded solutions out there.
If this is purely out of interest, then you still need to understand PHP and MYSQL first really.
As even if people started producing code in here for the various requirements, you wouldn't understand it anyway.
I think the problem here is that anyone who could offer some help on how to create a forum in PHP with MySQL does not have time to ramble through EVERYTHING necessary to do so. If you are the one asking the question, you should have some knowledge of how to work with PHP and MySQL and ask some more specific questions to receive the kind of help you're wanting. While philanthropy is a great thing, I don't think you really intended this topic as help for "other (sic) who need help in making a forum." If you really want to get some help with PHP and MySQL or want to help others, try asking more specific, problem-specific questions rather than expecting so much about such broad, general topics. It's not that no one wants to help; it's just that "How to Make a Forum in PHP using MySQL" could literally be the title of a book.
Kazimmerman you have made it easier for me , to say that if we post like a tut on how to make a forum though its impossible our forum can be famous .. many links would point here ...
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Read the source code until you understand how to make a very simple forum!
But seriously, explaining how to make a forum, even a very simple one, is a big task. It's too much for a forum post, too much for an article, probably too big for a series of articles!
Also, I don't think we would get many links even if we did write it. 1) everyone has different ideas on what constitutes good forum software (there would be framework flamewars, software design bike sheds and much more); 2) barely anyone bothers looking up how to build forum software, they just go and download some instead.
I do think Greg was perhaps a little grumpy though. You'll learn this stuff soon enough.
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Megan posted this at 19:00 — 14th June 2009.
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Do you mean form or forum?
webwiz posted this at 19:09 — 15th June 2009.
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Easy forms:
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MGadAllah posted this at 17:31 — 17th June 2009.
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Please edit the title of the topic as it is still read FORUM not FORM
Biboo posted this at 18:29 — 17th June 2009.
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phpBB would be definitely the best choice in my opinion as stated above if the software is been updated then there wouldn't be much risks but I feel like SMF is a little bit easy and customizable but still I love phpBB!
MGadAllah posted this at 18:52 — 17th June 2009.
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Are you sure that you read the topic?
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Megan posted this at 19:57 — 17th June 2009.
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Hard to say if he meant form or forum. I'm guessing it's form but we'll wait for zerocool to come back and confirm.
zerocool posted this at 13:51 — 19th June 2009.
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hey megan its forum not form
MGadAllah posted this at 14:21 — 19th June 2009.
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You mean write a code for a simple forum or you mean to run any forum software with simple?
For the 1st option, which language you gonna make it with? and will it be from scratch or based on something else?
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greg posted this at 15:47 — 19th June 2009.
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The reason people are unsure is because your thread title states "forum" and your opening posts states "form".
What do you mean by a "simple" forum? Even a most basic one will need registration, usernames displayed, posts and thread organisation, moderator management to delete/prune and manage forums, threads, posts and users.
Posting functionality, users editing or deleting their own posts, profiles, etc etc.
This is quote a lot of work to make one.
Is there a reason why you want to make your own? There are already pre-made ones out there such as PHPBB, Drupal (which this forum uses), vbulletin as well as others.
There are many out there, but the reason to use a well known pre-made one is it will be secure and updated.
MGadAllah posted this at 16:28 — 19th June 2009.
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Also you can customized it to fit your needs.
Also do not forget that updating the code is anight mare itself so using a pre-made one is really a nice option.
Maybe when you tell your reasons people can offer better option that can fill your goals.
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zerocool posted this at 12:03 — 20th June 2009.
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Hey everyone , there allot of confusion because of my mistakes i wanted to make a forum but didnt know how to make or in what language to make it , so i thought let everyone help eveyone in making a forum. Now we will make a forum , we need a:
1) registration page
2) page everyone posts their entries
what else ? and how do we get started ......
and if we can make some with drupal how can we customise or edit to change like the colours and other stuff
" Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates "
greg posted this at 14:02 — 20th June 2009.
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1) registration page
2) page everyone posts their entries
what else ? and how do we get started ......
registration, usernames displayed, posts and thread organisation, moderator management to delete/prune and manage forums, threads, posts and users.
Posting functionality, users editing or deleting their own posts, profiles
That is a "basic" outline of the minimum requirements.
zerocool posted this at 21:18 — 20th June 2009.
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yeah what next ?
greg posted this at 22:22 — 20th June 2009.
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I've listed everything you need to make a forum, other than making you an actual 100% design plan with EVERYTHING you will need to do and how to do it, there is "nothing next".
For someone with a good understanding of PHP, MYSQL, HTML and CSS, who's a relatively quick coder, to make a "basic" forum - about 6-8 weeks from coding 10 hours a day 6 days a week.
And that would give you a "basic" forum with some "basic" functionality and simple styling.
zerocool posted this at 10:23 — 21st June 2009.
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ok how to make a registration page , guys this post i made is for everyone to come and contribute in making a forum , by what ever knowledge they have..
greg posted this at 14:24 — 21st June 2009.
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And store their inputs in the DB when you have checked they are ok.
When they want to login you check the username and password they enter is in the database.
If found, log them in, else message "incorrect login".
It's not even practical to make a tutorial on it.
Do you have any PHP/MYSQL coding knowledge?
MGadAllah posted this at 16:26 — 21st June 2009.
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But I am still curious why to build something from scratch and do not use something pre-made?
Also you can customize the pre-made forum as you prefer which will make it very good indeed.
Also if you consider the time you spend for coding a forum from scratch to put it into customizing a pre-made forum you will end up with amazing looking forum.
Just IMO
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zerocool posted this at 21:38 — 21st June 2009.
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i have a very littler understand of php and none if you ask me about mySQL and i understands that mysql is very important because i get allot of php tuts but when it comes to MySql i always get confused
greg posted this at 00:44 — 22nd June 2009.
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To make a forum requires a lot of knowledge in PHP and a great deal in MYSQL too.
If you are wanting to learn how to make a forum, you will need to learn PHP and MYSQL first (and of course HTML and CSS to create and style the layout).
As has been asked a few times, why do you want to discuss how to make a forum from scratch? If you need one, there are already plenty of pre-coded solutions out there.
If this is purely out of interest, then you still need to understand PHP and MYSQL first really.
As even if people started producing code in here for the various requirements, you wouldn't understand it anyway.
zerocool posted this at 20:56 — 22nd June 2009.
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Greg Even if i didnt understand any of what people wrote atleast it will help other who need help in making a forum.
kazimmerman posted this at 22:21 — 22nd June 2009.
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I think the problem here is that anyone who could offer some help on how to create a forum in PHP with MySQL does not have time to ramble through EVERYTHING necessary to do so. If you are the one asking the question, you should have some knowledge of how to work with PHP and MySQL and ask some more specific questions to receive the kind of help you're wanting. While philanthropy is a great thing, I don't think you really intended this topic as help for "other (sic) who need help in making a forum." If you really want to get some help with PHP and MySQL or want to help others, try asking more specific, problem-specific questions rather than expecting so much about such broad, general topics. It's not that no one wants to help; it's just that "How to Make a Forum in PHP using MySQL" could literally be the title of a book.
Kurtis
zerocool posted this at 22:05 — 23rd June 2009.
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Kazimmerman you have made it easier for me , to say that if we post like a tut on how to make a forum though its impossible our forum can be famous .. many links would point here ...
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JeevesBond posted this at 01:07 — 26th June 2009.
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I know how to do it in two steps!
But seriously, explaining how to make a forum, even a very simple one, is a big task. It's too much for a forum post, too much for an article, probably too big for a series of articles!
Also, I don't think we would get many links even if we did write it. 1) everyone has different ideas on what constitutes good forum software (there would be framework flamewars, software design bike sheds and much more); 2) barely anyone bothers looking up how to build forum software, they just go and download some instead.
I do think Greg was perhaps a little grumpy though. You'll learn this stuff soon enough.
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