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Coding A Forum Software?
Topic Started: Feb 7 2010, 04:28 PM (144 Views)
Connor Feb 7 2010, 04:28 PM Post #1
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 I have edited forum scripts in the past but never started from scratch.
Can someone please tell me the first steps in coding a PHP code that will make a basic index and forum pages and such.
Once I have a simple script to start off of, I can take it from there.
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slayer766 Feb 7 2010, 07:07 PM Post #2
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 A forum software is quite a process if you want a lot of stuff to it.

Something I've had in development for almost a year, with work on and off occasionally: http://slayforum.slayer766.com/forumindex.php

Your forumindex file would be the main file, containing information stored in a MySQL database such as topics, users, online users, messages, posts, categories, etc.


Do you have a registration & login system? Will you find a free one on the net or create your own? It's best to create your own so you can get more practice with settings cookies/sessions, doing a proper error check for login/registration details and such. You can start off by having a basic registration & login system to store registered users in your database and then on another php file you would throw in some HTML tables to have a forum layout have just some space holders for the topics at the time. On login, you would need to decide with either a session or cookie. Recommend you to set with a cookie, later on you can have the option to make a checkbox for the remember me and just log them in with a session. Sessions are best kept with admin control panels.

You would need tables in your database for category, topic, posts, users. Create a category and a topic manually in your database, and then your forum index file you would just pull the info from that table to output the info, and make a link for a forum page(showtopic/topic/viewforum/whatever).

Just let me know what you think and if you need help getting the registration & login system or however you want to start.
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Reid Feb 7 2010, 08:07 PM Post #3
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 Just be sure your login details are stored securely... instead of storing passwords directly, use hashes.

For example, if I put in the password roflcopters then you should:

1. Add a random salt to the end of it, i.e. yes,IdoinfactlikeCheese,butthereareonly388typ3sof{}thatArefancyenoughforme will do.

2. Take that and use SHA to make it into a hash

Hashes are unique in that they are one way, so if someone gets your database somehow all they have are a bunch of hashes; they don't know the actual passwords.
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slayer766 Feb 7 2010, 08:12 PM Post #4
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Connor Feb 8 2010, 10:29 AM Post #5
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 Looks Cool slayer.
Mind making a basic index script for me to base mine off of please?
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Connor Feb 8 2010, 10:48 AM Post #6
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 I found a ful tutorial. I may use.
Anyone want to help?
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slayer766 Feb 9 2010, 03:47 PM Post #7
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Connor Feb 9 2010, 05:48 PM Post #8
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 I have http://softbb.ulmb.com so far.
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Gorgor Feb 9 2010, 05:51 PM Post #9
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I have http://softbb.ulmb.com so far.
That makes Google Chrome freeze as well as make Adobe stop working for me...
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Connor Feb 9 2010, 05:58 PM Post #10
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 Works fine for myself and everyone else...
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