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=adamW=
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 20:02
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Hey its =adamw=!
i was just wodering if you guys could help me with something for school,we are in the REALY early years of website programming at my school(im only in the second year in secondary school),i was wondering if you could help me make a forum for a local website(got to be done by tommorrow!)as i realy want to impress my teacher,so i can get up to the highest groups.

thanks guys

-adam

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hyrichter
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 21:32
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Ummm, no. You can't make a useable forum in a day, even if you're as l337 a coder as Rich. Also, plain HTML won't do it either. You need to use a scripting language like PHP or ASP and link it to a database such as MySQL.

I wrote a simple forum a couple years ago using ASP, and in the end, it took probably 3 months, and about 5-6 thousand lines of code.

Good performance is better than a good excuse.
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 21:35
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phBB is what you are looking for.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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=adamW=
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 21:38
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wow ok thanks for the info

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Tom J
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Posted: 26th Mar 2007 21:42 Edited at: 26th Mar 2007 21:42
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Quote: "phBB is what you are looking for"

I'm not so sure that phBB is that impressive as it doesn't show off any skill.

You could try something else, such as a simple bit of javascript which would be quicker and easier than a forum.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Mar 2007 05:09
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phpBB is a spam target. I'd go with something a little less popular.
I too am currently in an web design class. Just last week we learned all about hyperlinks! Did I mention I'm a college senior? This school is soooo backwards. Years of java, c++, and coming up Cobol, and I finish my education with HTML?

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Steve J
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Posted: 27th Mar 2007 05:33
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@hyrichter: I spent 9 hours at work with another guy and we finished most of the features of a forum (Admin controls, mod controls, user panel, posts, stickies, categories, user stats, ect)... not exactly pretty code, and not exactly pretty output but the backend was there, not very extensible though, lol.

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hyrichter
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Posted: 27th Mar 2007 07:04
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Well, admittedly it was only 1 or 2 hours of work on it at a time. It was actually only a couple of weeks before you could post, register, etc. The rest of the time was intermittently adding other features such as private messaging, etc.

It may be possible to write a very, very basic forum overnight, but I'd hate to try to maintain the code afterword.

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Steve J
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Posted: 27th Mar 2007 07:22
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yes coke and coffee turn your work into errors quick=P. Though I have taken up the practice of putting all functions I have made in one file and looking to see if they are of use in any project. It saves glorious amounts of time (For example, one function I made makes alternating rows, all you have to do is plug in the two css classes and number of rows down.)

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Screwed Over
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Posted: 27th Mar 2007 13:27
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coffee doesnt turn your work into errors, its actually really useful!! (see here) and you don't always need mysql for a forum, but it does improve it greatly, but a decent forum could take years to code which is why alot of big companies buy forum codes such as invision and others like that. i would just use a shoutbox, its alot easier and quicker to code and if you're confident you could make acounts on your website for people to use the shout box, or even a very simple blog formated right could act as a forum, but still thats very difficult.


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Steve J
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Posted: 27th Mar 2007 17:14
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"years to code" <- Not really. Months if you have more than a book of coding experience, or did more than one tutorial and think your a PHP genius.

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