hi i'm new here,so if i post this thread wrongly here,so sorry.

i want to make a forum,preferably a ipb forum,so can anyone kindly teach me how?

i dont want those free ones,where they are all ready make.i wish to create my own one.

please teach me how cos i'm still an idiot in computer stuffs,but i love IT alot...
so please help me out guys...!thanks...!

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    No offence but making your own forum is way out of your league.
    Start off making small things like guestbooks and news scripts

      Agreed entirely. A good forum is years of work for a single person. The forums you see on the internet, IPB, phpBB, Ultimate Boards to a lesser extent, are the product of dozens of programmers working collaboratively across the internet for years.

      I'd agree, start with something small. Not that a simple threaded BBS is hard to make, that was the first thing I ever taught one of my friends how to make, but a full fleged threaded forum is far too difficult.

        okie so what should i start off first?please guide me out...

        =)

          As harmor pointed out its good to start with small scripts like quest book, contact book, sign up and other things. But the whole forum would be a big thing for one programmer.

          As you are new to php try to check this scripts they are php quest book, simple php forum, php user online etc, they are very simple and clearly explained.

          http://www.phpeasystep.com/workshop.php

          hope it gives you an idea where to start and what to look for.

            I was looking at a tutorial on the site posted above and it assumes registrered globals are on.
            http://www.phpeasystep.com/workshopview.php?id=8

            So take this code snippet

            // Contact subject
$subject ="$subject";
// Details
$message="$detail";

// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";

            that needs to be

            // Contact subject
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
// Details
$message= $_POST['detail'];

// Mail of sender
$mail_from=$_POST['customer_mail'];
// From
$header="from: ".$_POST['name']." <".$_POST['mail_from'].">";

            Notice I changed $subject to $_POST['subject'] and so on...

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