Creating a Forum

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Creating a Forum

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I was wondering if anyone knew what was needed to create a php/mysql forum. i.e. Databases, Tables, and Table values, Pages, Scripts, and such. Anything is appreciated.
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Do you need something special? There are a lot of ready solutions.
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More databasing than PHP. Much more. Forum databases end up becoming huge.
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I was wondering what i should name these tables and the table info.
Gente wrote:Do you need something special? There are a lot of ready solutions.
I was planning on making a professional version for businesses and sell licenses. Like IPB.
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Vexxum wrote:
Gente wrote:Do you need something special? There are a lot of ready solutions.
I was planning on making a professional version for businesses and sell licenses. Like IPB.
This way I think you should start from investigation the existent solution. You can see advantages / disadvantages and then ask our opinions in some particular situation. Now your topic is very common.
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Okay, thanks a lot.
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If you're aiming at business then you need to spend a LOT of time thinking of a good way to make it easy to embed in other websites. Make sure the user management can integrate with another user system for example. IPB, phpBB etc give NO thought to that at all and sites that attempt to use a single user system always end up being a bunch of hacks that break whenever someone tries to update the forum to a new version.

A forum that fixes that problem would be a winner.
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Post by Vexxum »

I am a bit of a beginner at php really. I figure that I will learn it better if i practice it and i got w3schools as a little reference. But I have it well thought out, like I write down the forum structure on paper and have the database and each table with their columns. I kinda know forum structure and what it needs.

I was just wondering if you could just help me out a little bit with what you said because I am a little confused about what you mean. If you wouldn't mind. :)
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