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I am making a website for gamers, the idea is you upload video clips of yourself gaming and people can watch these videos and then vote on them.... I just installed a phpBB forum and it all went well so I want to now make the whole site dynamic, I am a complete noob at this and I dont know if there is something like the phpBB forum that is simple to install but will do all the things I need it to.. I was wondering if the phpBB forum thing could be set up to do this.

Otherwise is there a kind of template or script that can be used nice and easy like the phpBB thing.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated :roll:
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you might try looking at hotscripts.com to see if you can find a combination of things to put together to try and accomplish what your'e after. Unfortunately, I'm nearly 100% certain that you're not going to find exactly what you want in one ready made script.
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aha, thanx very much for your reply, I did start to think this was the case and you have comfirmed this.

So it is possible to put multiple scripts into a single page?

I have looked at many sites offering scripts but everytime I find something that looks good it wants money and I dont want to pay for it, I was told PHP is a free thing and this site Im making is for fun not business.

Thanx again
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you could always learn how to do it yourself...you've already found the best resource in the world for help 8)

what you're trying to accomplish is really not that difficult a thing to do.
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you may want to forget about phpBB. It's pretty outdated, a nightmare to customise and the only development happening on it are bug fixes. If you want easy of use etc. try Mambo or, as it has just been renamed, Joomla (http://www.joomla.org I believe). It's a content management system that's dead easy to install, and you can extend it fairly easily. There might even be a video streaming component for it.
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Post by BulliT! »

Thanx very much guyz.
Not sure if I am cut out to learn it and really dont know where to start.
I downloaded the Mambo and Im going to try and figure it out lol, wish me luck lol.
Thanx again guyz
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Post by BulliT! »

Can you translate this to English please, im finding this very hard to understand, with the phpBB all I had to do was upload the lot.





Copy the tar.gz file into a working directory e.g.

$ cp MamboVx.x.x-Stable.tar.gz /tmp/Mambo

Change to the working directory e.g.

$ cd /tmp/Mambo

Extract the files e.g.

$ tar -zxvf MamboVx.x.x-Stable.tar.gz

This will extract all Mambo files and directories. Move the contents
of that directory into a directory within your web server's document
root or your public HTML directory e.g.

$ mv /tmp/Mambo/* /var/www/html
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simplest: download it to your machine, unpack it using gunzip-tar or winrar or something, then upload the extracted files to the server.
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