Making my own forum

Haris_P

I'm sort of new to PHP but am learning at a quick pace since I am not new to programming. I was wondering how I would start out if I wanted to make a simple forum. Something simple as just making new threads and replying to them.

I tried googling for some example code or a tutorial on that, but no luck. If anyone can give me any hints or a push in the right direction, that would be very helpful.

pjleonhardt

ull probably need a table to hold the info of the posts, and what thread they belong to...

this is sort of how i have mine set up

threads

id | title | author | lastpost | priority

where priority is used to hold things like regular, stickied or announcement

posts

so id have something like

threads:

1 | PHPBuilder Rocks! | pjleonhardt | 83472302 | 2
2 | My Own Forum! | pjleonhardt | 83492302 | 1

posts:

1 | 1 | pjleonhardt | 12/23/03 | 1:50 AM | I concur! | Yeah it so does rock.. blah blah
2 | 2 | pjleonhardt | 12/24/03 | 1:52 AM | I made it! | I finally finished making my own forum!!

etc...

the thread column points to the id number of the thread it belongs to..

so on your viewthread page...
you would do something like

viewthread.php?t=1

<?
$thread = $_GET['t'];
include("dbconnect.php");
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM posts WHERE thread = " . $thread);
while($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{
    //populate table of posts
}
?>

Pig

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/31/index3a.html?tw=programming

planetsim

Also search the forums. this has come up so many times. Anyways you'd be amazed how easy they are depending on what you want in it.

MarshallT

theres phpbb u can use as an example, its free and one of best forums out there. can download it at http://www.phpbb.com

planetsim

Yes you can download it, but there are some many forums that are similar, vB, PHPBB and Invision Board are quite similar in most aspects of course that is something in particular areas which cannot be avoided but if you are really serious about making this maybe make it a little more unique than the main ones