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re faze
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Hey! Im working on a webpage with my friend and i wanted to make a forum similar to this one. any pointers rich or anyone else?

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Lukas W
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well, first off you need to know PHP pretty well. you also need to have a server capable of supporting lots of users. and you need to have MySQL. thats all i know. i couldn't even write my own Guestbook and im far from ready to start working on a Forum

few people on this forum has actually managed to write their own forum.
so, good luck with this

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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 16:34 Edited at: 31st Oct 2005 16:36
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wow, some people propagandad, eh? You can use php, asp, cgi, ruby, and a few other languages. You can use msql, sql,mysql, postgresql, and some others. The easiest way for me is PHP and mysql, and I have successfully made 3-4 forums with it. You dont even need to know a php that well! I made a forum my 3rd day of php! You just need to know some strange commands, and lots of html! USE SESSIONS! Never, ever use cookies. (rich might think elsewise, but this is just my opinion. If he knows how to use cookies and make them better than sessions, he is a pro, so I would go with his choice!(only if you know how he does it ) ) They have many disadvantages to sessions. Never stop because of a bug. If you get frustrated because of a bug or glitch in the forum, wait tell tomorrow to fix it. It helps A LOT. If you want help, I can.

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re faze
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have a url that i can look at?

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AluminumPork
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 18:23
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Sessions use cookies as well.

My recommendation, buy a book from amazon.com. I got a great one that combined MySQL and PHP into one book. That was awhile ago though, I am working on AJAX implementation now into my scripts.

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Jimmy
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 19:34
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Quote: "few people on this forum has actually managed to write their own forum.
so, good luck with this"


I has! I has writ one gooood.


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PowerSoft
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 23:25
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See even **special** people can make them...

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Lukas W
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Jr n00ber,
show us one of those 3-4 forums. i like to see things i hear.

jimmeh wrote a forum that is never online
hahahaha


what?

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Jimmy
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 23:48
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Hey, it was online a month ago


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 31st Oct 2005 23:48
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Quote: "USE SESSIONS! Never, ever use cookies. (rich might think elsewise, but this is just my opinion. If he knows how to use cookies and make them better than sessions, he is a pro, so I would go with his choice!(only if you know how he does it"


Use sessions to store *session data*, absolutely. That is exactly what this forum does. The cookie is merely a session identifier, and any PHP site using sessions will have something similar (unless they use trans ID, in which case anything that you could have read from the cookie will instead be appened to every single URL on your site).

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re faze
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rich when you have time, can you mail me a pointer or two, or contact me on msn using my email adress from the bar?

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Undercover Steve
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Lucas W@: I have a sample of code I made... I have no true hosting as of now, because I like to keep it that way!


so ha. Sorry, I am currently Getting the others in business applications. They are very different from this one..business like. Sorry, I wish I could show you! I also have much more php coding experience than a simple forum! Forums, Private message systems...shoutboxes, easy stuff and some hard stuff. Again, as soon as some contracts are over, I will contact you!

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Jeku
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 02:17 Edited at: 1st Nov 2005 02:18
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Quote: "while ($forum = mysql_fetch_row($query2)){"


Here's a tip--- if you use mysql_fetch_array instead, then you can reference them with $forum['tablename'] rather than $forum[3] or whatever position you need.

EDIT:

Actually you can still use mysql_fetch_row, and use tablenames.

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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 02:56 Edited at: 1st Nov 2005 02:57
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Quote: "well, first off you need to know PHP pretty well. you also need to have a server capable of supporting lots of users. and you need to have MySQL. thats all i know. i couldn't even write my own Guestbook and im far from ready to start working on a Forum"


Lies all lies!!!
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Undercover Steve
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I know. I said I:
I made a forum my 3rd day of php!

My later forums are on work pc's, and I dont use them at home

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Lukas W
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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 08:53
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jt noober,
ok i may consider believeing you. its just that you are new to this forum.. we never know if you are 13 or anything sorry if i scared yoyu

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its not too difficult if you have some programming experience. I managed to make a web forum with PHP and MySQL and didn't even know what PHP was a few weeks prior to making it.

this is where i learned most of what i needed:
[href]phpfreaks.com[/href]


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Posted: 1st Nov 2005 11:12 Edited at: 1st Nov 2005 11:19
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you want a forum similar to this one...well this forum uses Apollo, surly you would of guessed that by now?

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Undercover Steve
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Yah, this forum does use rich's apollo, so if you are going to make a forum like this, you will have to start from scratch, unless rich helps you.

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Insanity Complex
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I still think Invision Free is very good.

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JoelJ
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Quote: "jimmeh wrote a forum that is never online
hahahaha"

hahahaha that is SO FUNNY!
you're an idiot...
he had it on DBSPOT and it WAS online, just no one used it because no one needed it, because when anyone needed help with their dbspot accounts, Dbspot was down
except for that compo that TGC stole the light from...the forum was used for that.

I'll give you some toast
My BLOG really sucks...
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Ace Of Spades
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Making your own forum is rather simple(assuming you have scripting knowledge, databases, and know the database management commands), the hard part is making it look good. Hmm...now I think I want to go do this!

Your signature has been erased by a mod, damn mods
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Lukas W
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Joel,
what you think im an idiot?!?!?
ofcorse i know his forum have been online. note the "hahahahaha" and "what?" things i wrote. that indicates it was a "Joke". i even had an account on dbspot, then i moved because it went down too often. ive even been to his forum a few times. never posted though.

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Quote: "hahahaha that is SO FUNNY!
you're an idiot..."

Leave the poor norwaylandishisk person alone

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I now announce this thread Benjaminated .

Feel free to start saving the thread



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re faze
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guys please dont spam my thread as this is kinda important.

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Well, I'm a python fanaticm, so I like things like this:

http://spyce.sourceforge.net/

PSP - Python Server Pages, allow the Python scripting language to be used in a webpage. Its pretty groovy.

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He probably will be on a shared hosting package, not a dedicated server. Besides I have offered help, and greed hasnt responded.

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@jr noober
im reading you script now, ill try it when i get home.

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edit: it wont work right now, it isnt even complete! If you have MSN I could add you and help, but right now there isnt anything I can do exept give you old CODEZ!!!111.

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i have msn, its the same as my email in my profile.

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JoelJ
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Quote: "what you think im an idiot?!?!?"

yes, why do you ask?


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@ lukas:
If you want to see my 2001 photo (tons more available even), then I can show you

Wow. joel owned lukas. owned.

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[href]phpbb.com[/href]

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bah. The exploits because of its open source ways!

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Lukas W
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Quote: "yes, why do you ask?"

did you even read my whole post?

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do I have the time to read lame?


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Lukas W
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but you have time to read 50'000 word novel?

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JoelJ
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not reading, writing

since you can't comprehend pulling yourself away from geeking up the forums for a month and do something...you know, creative, doesn't me I can't either


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Lukas W
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well, i dont have any physical social related problems.... much.
i am 3 days older than you so stop bugging me.

creative?? for your information i do play in a band (the worst band in town, we got in the newspaper for being the band that suck the most) you need creative skills to play in a band!

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JOEL!!! GO AWAY AND STOP POSTING SPAM!!! I DONT WANT MY THREAD LOCKED!!![u][/u]

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Here is a page that might help; it walks you through making a forum.
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oh yes! It does doesnt it..

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wow, what a great page...

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well, where is it?

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sorry I though I pust the link in, Here you go
http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_ud4/ueforum/p1.asp
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might be interesting..

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any snippets for making a private message box? i wanted to make it so that people who are logged on can create threads for themselves that they may post to, and elect for others to read, but not post to, sort of like a blog but allowing them to converse with members of my group and have their conversations remain in the forum.

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Well, if you understand the making the forum part, this should be fairly simple, basically you would check if any person, if logged in, is in the read/post list (probably in MySQL, which I suggest you use).

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