I have looked for long ends of time, and i can still not find a tutorial or forums posts on building a forum into mywebsite. i do not wnat to use an external forum i really want to know how to design my own, any ideas?

I would really appreciate the help

Some website hosts offer free forums scripts and stuff...... perhaps check with yours first.

I have looked for long ends of time, and i can still not find a tutorial or forums posts on building a forum into mywebsite. i do not wnat to use an external forum i really want to know how to design my own, any ideas?

I would really appreciate the help

Do you mean design your own skin, or code your own forum. There are plenty of open source forum scripts out there, the majority of which run on PHP/MySQL. They're fairly easy to set up and administrate, and will be fully customisable.

i would love to code my own with my own skin, its something i really want to learn u know.? any tips

Thank you both for posting i have looked at a couple open source forums and got a good response on http://www.phpbb.com/

however would still like to learn how to do it all myself.

i would love to code my own with my own skin, its something i really want to learn u know.? any tips

Thank you both for posting i have looked at a couple open source forums and got a good response on http://www.phpbb.com/

however would still like to learn how to do it all myself.

 

 

I would suggest going with PHPBB, very fast and customizable.

 

You can skin it however you like. You're even free to change the source code however you much. And they also have very good community support.

ah i am a php noob so its all new on editing config and phpbb is cool but i might aswell write it myself, with all the files that needed,

what do i need to express in the config ?

your a PHP noob, but your gonna write a custom forum?

yer i figure if im going to write any php i might aswel write it all. just something i want to learn u know. all i am really asking for is some tutorial source:?

I'd start with basic PHP and mySQL tutorials.

 

w3schools is the standard starting point.

 

There are much simpler things to start with than an entire forum, like customising an existing open source one to work the way you want it to?

I would suggest ...

 

1. Get a copy of phpbb and install it on a local server
   
2. run it, to learn all the background functions and how it works - there's more to a forum than you think
   
3. then take a look at the code
   

 

Once you've done this, then decide if you want to create your own forum, or maybe tweak the existing one

Thank you all for your response, i am editing phpbb on my server and finding it reasonably easy, i will also take a look at w3shools,

Cheers

I would suggest ...

 

1. Get a copy of phpbb and install it on a local server
   
2. run it, to learn all the background functions and how it works - there's more to a forum than you think
   
3. then take a look at the code
   

 

Once you've done this, then decide if you want to create your own forum, or maybe tweak the existing one

 

Totally agree!

 

 

Thank you all for your response, i am editing phpbb on my server and finding it reasonably easy, i will also take a look at w3shools,

Cheers

 

Good. PHPBB should suit you just fine. It is fairly easy to customized to your needs.

Personally i'd recommend starting off with the basics.

 

If you follow tutorials you'll likely end up just copy and pasting without actually learning much.

 

However, if you still think a tutorial is the way to go then check this site out, i used this a while ago to make my own forum.

 

Here is the link

 

Enjoy

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