skiabox Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Whats is the best way to create a forum using php? Should I use any frameworks? If not is there any guide/tutorial/book that descibe this procedure? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjasonx Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Create the mysql tables: - Create forums table that contains at least a forum name and category id if you want to organize forums in different categories. - Create a forums_category table that has a category name and category id. - Create topics table which has the forum id - Create posts table which has the topic id. Then, you need to create a forums, topics and posts page that will retrieve the information from the tables. Also, an insert posts/topic page. Topic page would pretty much be like the posts page. That's pretty basic. If you look up a few mysql and php tutorials, it will be pretty simple. From there, you would be able to see how easy it is to add much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiabox Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 Should I use phpBB as a base (since it is open source) and build on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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