Looking for a forum tutorial

Hi,

I would look to learn a little bit more about the techniques behind making
forums in php and mysql. Although phpbb etcetera are great they don't reveal
much about which kind of tables should be created etc. Looking up words like
"mysql php forum" in google of course bring me to forums *about* php rather
than forums about (creating) forums :). Who can give me some hints?

Martien

Depends on your PHP knowledge. I took phpBB.com code and looked at it for a
few months. That was great and I learned a few tricks. Other than that I
believe that forum can be of very different complexity. If you are not very
good with PHP then I would learn everything about sessions and MySQL
input/output first.


"Martien van Wanrooij" <info_removethis_@martienvanwanrooij.nl> wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> I would look to learn a little bit more about the techniques behind making
> forums in php and mysql. Although phpbb etcetera are great they don't
> reveal
> much about which kind of tables should be created etc. Looking up words
> like
> "mysql php forum" in google of course bring me to forums *about* php
> rather
> than forums about (creating) forums :). Who can give me some hints?
>
> Martien
>
>
>

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> Depends on your PHP knowledge. I took phpBB.com code and looked at it for
a
> few months. That was great and I learned a few tricks.
Okay if you think it is worth to take a deeper look into the phpBB code I
will certainly do that. I have a reasonable knowledge of php and (my)sql.
I am specially interested in questions how to organise the whole thing
rather then how to write the code, in other words I can write the php code
and the mysql queries but don't know *what* code two write, so questions
that puzzle me are which tables I should create, how to handle the fact that
people can react to a topic but also to somebody else's reaction to an
existing topic.. maybe as you said I can find some hints by studying the
phpbb code, thanks for the suggestion :)

And use their forum on their main website, it is active 24/7 and you will
get answers in a few hours. I was modding their forum into a website shell.
Learned a lot about BB's internals.


"Martien van Wanrooij" <info_removethis_@martienvanwanrooij.nl> wrote in
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>
> "Hello" <no-emai@sorry.com> schreef in bericht
> news:G6o4e.752$An2.8@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink. net...
>> Depends on your PHP knowledge. I took phpBB.com code and looked at it for
> a
>> few months. That was great and I learned a few tricks.
> Okay if you think it is worth to take a deeper look into the phpBB code I
> will certainly do that. I have a reasonable knowledge of php and (my)sql.
> I am specially interested in questions how to organise the whole thing
> rather then how to write the code, in other words I can write the php code
> and the mysql queries but don't know *what* code two write, so questions
> that puzzle me are which tables I should create, how to handle the fact
> that
> people can react to a topic but also to somebody else's reaction to an
> existing topic.. maybe as you said I can find some hints by studying the
> phpbb code, thanks for the suggestion :)
>
>