Discussion forums in PHP

[meenakshidhar]

hello friends,
i want to make Discussion forum in PHP...can anybody plss send me the coding or any useful links related to that...
thanks in advance....
Meenakshi Dhar

 

[johnhoke]

take a look at freshmeat.net there are 100's of these already coded... personally, I like phorum (

http://www.phorum.org)

and phpBB (

http://www.phpbb.com/)

They are all GPL'd so why recreate the wheel

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[AnakinPt]

when the wheel is to square for our purposes ... i prefer to recreate.

For example, my company was using Phoruns or PHPPhoruns or something like it. It was so dificult to use, and as i had the need to do the implementation in MSSQL instead of MySQL, i recreated it taking me only 2 or 3 days to start from the scratch.

The main difference between implementations is that the GPL used 4 tables for each forum i had, resulting in more than 230 tables, and my solution use only ... 2.

I prefer doing my wheel if addapting a square one is very hard. I can learn more about programming. I can addapt easily to other systems (changing my solution to Oracle took me only 1 hour of work). And the most important thing, i don't keep junk. Anikin
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[DumTech]

On that note (I like to recreate wheels also! You learn much more about wheel-making when you make wheels than even looking at the source of wheels already made...) I saw some potentially good links on this at

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/

http://www.sitepoint.com

and

http://www.phpbuilder.com

also have some good resources.

But the PHP and MySQL documentation have actually been my best friends as I've been learning this stuff. Tutorials will show you someone's way of doing something, which will often be just fine, but I enjoy figuring out 'my own way' (re-creating even smaller wheels?) based on reading the docs on various functions and such.

Good luck!