Topic awaiting preservation: How to developed a Forum ?

I recently developed a new website for my company, but i duno how to developed a new forum, do anybody know? do help n give some meaningful ideas mail me.......

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

Yeah, the level of work needed to develop a decent forum is simply amazing, especially if you don't know where to start.

There are a lot of ready to use forums out there, some free some not.

There are some good resources here in the :FAQ: as well - take a look.



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[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 01-06-2003).]

Specifically look here:

:FAQ:

It would also be handy if you told us what languages you have available so we can make better recommendations.

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Its very easy to make your own forum... I would suggest using MySql if I were. Its just a simple system.. All topics are posted to a table, and all messages to a different table.. Thats one way to go about it. Then you just recall information from the database to the site, and echo it out.. REMEMBER: THIS IS JUST THE SIMPLE STRUCTURE, NOTHING MORE.. The code is very easy to make aswell.

-Eli Bolotin

I'm sorry, did you say it's VERY EASY to make your own forum?

synax: It is indeed very easy to make your own forum - it is much more difficult to do it right

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Or to make it well, with quality features, and code that will do everything you want it to without puking on itself... =)



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it's also easy to do a brain transplant aswell.

just hand me an axe, some tongs and some sticky tape. all you have to do is switch the brains, nothing more.

The basic concepts aren't too hard -- in fact I'm thinking of coding one myself for practice -- but to make anything as good as the most popular free bulletin board projects would require a hell of a lot more dedication and skill than I've got. Mine is just going to be a half-assed job, intended for a user community that'll probably never break the single digits.

Emps is exactly right on this... its easy to do, but difficult/time consuming to do it right... that's why if you want a (reliable) fully functioning forum with lots of features, you go to a prebuilt forum like PHPBB or vbulletin. I can't reccomend PHPBB enough