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cusano
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Want to create an online comunity!

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Hi!

I want to create a fan site for a band, wich allows people to register and create their own presentation of themselves within the site. They should be able to upload pictures. I guess I need a content managment script, but wich one would suite my needs? I have only used some PHP in the past and never with MySQL, so I need it to be fairly easy to understand.

If anybody can recomend a script to check out I would be very gratefull!! :)

Thanx!
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http://www.phpbb.com

it powers this community
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phpBB is the defacto standard for open source bulletin boards. Over my travels, I've also discovered two other alternatives: Vanilla and Phorum, although I've never used them before.
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I use SMF (Simple Machines Forum) for my forum. It looks nice and has a good structure. You could try e107 if you need more of a website with a forum as a plugin.
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Ambush Commander wrote:phpBB is the defacto standard for open source bulletin boards. Over my travels, I've also discovered two other alternatives: Vanilla and Phorum, although I've never used them before.
i personally dispise phpbb because of all it's holes and security flaws. it's decently fast tho. but i LOVE phorum. it's by far my fav and is what is on my site. i also love it's licence and i plan to take it and put it into my framework
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FUD and useBB are also decent alternatives.
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Post by Jenk »

I use vanilla, it's simplicity that is it's main point of sale ("it's free" also helps..) but it's by no means as powerful as the others mentioned.

I use it to keep my to-do lists on :p
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Post by alvinphp »

I have used phpbb for a while without any problems. I have learned the backend enough where I will probably stay with it for a while.
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Post by cusano »

Thank you for all the replyes and advice. However, a forum is not what i am looking for. I just want people to be able to registre as a member, and get their own member page on the site. Like this one:

http://www.repti.net/repti2/index.php

Click the American flag on the upper right, and then click your webpage.

This is what I want, but are there existing scripts available for this?? :)

Thanx again!!

Haakon
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Post by matt1019 »

I dont know if you are into fusion,

but for your situation, I would suggest:

download phpfusion (http://www.php-fusion.co.uk)

and add the member_pages addon (http://beta.phpfusion-mods.com/forum/vi ... rowstart=0)

there you go, now your members can create personal pages, blogs, photoalbums, etc etc etc.

good luck with your venture ;)

hope this help,

-Matt
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Post by cusano »

Great tip Matt! Thanx a lot! :)
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