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Geek Culture / How do you create a forum?

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Mortus
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Posted: 16th Dec 2006 00:15
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im confused can you even make a forum?
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APEXnow
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Posted: 16th Dec 2006 04:46
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If you're referring to creating your own forums on the TGC apollo system, you can't. You're obviously able to post on existing forums with new topics, but that is as far as you can go.

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hyrichter
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First off, you post to the relevant board (Programming Talk would probably be appropriate.)

The easiest way is to use a pre-built forum software like PHPBB. However, if you want to write your own, you'll need a good knowledge of a web scripting language like PHP or ASP/ASP.net, plus a decent knowledge of SQL and database structure.

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Accoun
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Posted: 16th Dec 2006 19:41
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Is apollo a TGC only system? A paid system? Or sth. like that?

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Vampiric
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Posted: 17th Dec 2006 11:46 Edited at: 17th Dec 2006 11:59
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It's TGC only and closed source

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PowerSoft
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With some rumour at one time or another being available for distribution. Think Rich considered it at one point. As I said, before you bite my head off for being inaccurate, RUMOUR...

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White knight
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Posted: 20th Dec 2006 21:04 Edited at: 20th Dec 2006 21:08
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if your talking about makeing your own site with forum use something like a php boardhttp://www.phpbb.com/ this maybe what you are looking for or http://jforum.net/. for some you can put it on a php site that you can sign up for there is lot's of them out there.

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CattleRustler
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I wrote a basic forum in ASP.NET, leveraged against SQL Server 2005. It came out pretty nifty but was only a working model, without the bells and whistles of this forum (though they were planned for). It was using a basic datagrid control to display pages etc, and I began work on the custom control for the posts in the threads but hit a few snags (beginnings of the bells and whistles) but then that contract ended so I stopped work on it (was an unasked for part of a bigger client project)

oh well



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dab
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 06:59
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I'm writing a forum at the moment using PHP and MySQL (Which I believed is what Rich is using for this forum now). If you want to look at it, http://dabgames.galekus.com/forum/. I'm going to re-write it to be more user friendly and able to be customized more easily. At the moment, you have to hard code every change, but I'll fix that on the re-write.

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Steve J
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 07:22
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dabip if you want I can give you the source for a forum I hand wrote=)

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dab
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It's fine. I prefer the joy and fun of making it myself. Thanks though.

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