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[strangepurple]

Hello all, I am currently working on an Intranet site for our telecommunications department, and I had a few questions. My site is finished and uploaded to one of our servers, and fully functional. I am happy with the result so far. My next step however is to add a forum/news section so members of the department will be up to date on the happenings. I really have NO idea where to begin with forums, or how they work, and i was unable to find a mroe appropriate place on this site to ask the question. So can anyone please guide me on how to go about setting up, administering, and perhaps pulling recent topics to the front page, thanks.

 

[Borvik]

If your looking for a good forum solution - I recommend phpBB.

You can get it at

http://www.phpBB.com.

Best of all it's benefits it's FREE! You'll need a server-side database for it to work correctly, and I don't remember all the dbs it supports - but MySQL is one of them (I think Access is too - but why use that on the web).

 

[cLFlaVA]

You'll also need PHP running on your web server.

*cLFlaVA
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[strangepurple]

thank you guys

 

[Foamcow]

You'll also need PHP running on your web server.

And MySQL (or other supported database)

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[cLFlaVA]

You'll need a server-side database for it to work correctly, and I don't remember all the dbs it supports - but MySQL is one of them

*cLFlaVA
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[tt]a frickin' twelve-gauge, what do you think?[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[Foamcow]

I am, of course, blind

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[cLFlaVA]

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[tt]a frickin' twelve-gauge, what do you think?[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[Foamcow]

Who said that?

Foamcow Heavy Industries - Web design and ranting
Toccoa Games - Day of Defeat gaming community
Target Marketing Communications - Advertising, Direct Marketing and Public Relations
"I'm making time