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The First Step in Making a Forum

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The First Step in Making a Forum

Postby Zacheus » January 22nd, 2009, 1:50 am

I'm currently working on a forum site and want to create my own forum using PHP and SQL. The problem is, I don't know where to start. Can someone tell me the first step? If you beleive I need to learn more about SQL and PHP, please post a link to a tutorial you beleive can teach me what I need to know.
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Re: The First Step in Making a Forum

Postby zakaullah89 » January 22nd, 2009, 3:23 pm

In PHP and mysql, it is very easy to create a forum. A lot of open-source forum scripts are available. You can downlaod anyone of those and install it on your domain. After installing the forum, you can customize it as per you needs.

Once of the best open-source forum script provided by phpBb. You can download it from there site for free. The phpBb website link as follow :
http://www.phpbb.com

Go to the downloads section and download the latest stable version. Its installation is very easy, also you can find a lot of free themes to personalize it.

Installation Guide: http://www.phpbb.com/support/documentation/3.0/quickstart/

Themes: http://www.phpbb.com/styles/

I hope this post will help you, if you need further assistance, don't hesitate to contact us again.

cheers :)
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