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Very techy question
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:09 pm
by BulliT!
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

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:21 pm
by Burrito
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.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:28 pm
by BulliT!
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
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:32 pm
by Burrito
you could always learn how to do it yourself...you've already found the best resource in the world for help
what you're trying to accomplish is really not that difficult a thing to do.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:53 pm
by patrikG
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 It's pretty outdated, a nightmare to customise and the only development happening on it are bug fixes.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.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:25 pm
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
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:35 pm
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
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:38 pm
by feyd
simplest: download it to your machine, unpack it using gunzip-tar or winrar or something, then upload the extracted files to the server.