smashmouth Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Hi everyone! This I hope is in the correct spot. I have a few choices here and was hoping some of you php coders could chime in. I am looking to build a forum among other php projects for my personal use. however I don't know exactly where to start. I know HTML, CSS and limited php. I would like to learn php from the ground up so i can do these things on my own instead of paying someone thousands of dollars to do the work. How should I go about this? I was thinking a degree would be goos since the GI bill pays for it at no cost to me. I enjoy doing it.... but do I need a degree to get good at it? and where do I start to start making my own projects? I have done a ton of research and it is difficult to grasp. Thoughts? Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/217684-making-a-forum-project-with-php/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
inversesoft123 Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 you can get open source codes form the web and install them on your server. http://www.phpbb.com/ http://www.simplemachines.org/ http://www.mybboard.net/ http://www.seo-board.com/ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/217684-making-a-forum-project-with-php/#findComment-1129983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
merylvingien Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 If its a case of wanting to do this as a project to learn, then i have found this http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/php.html site is a good start for learning from the ground up. There is also a basic forum where you can get the basics of how to start a project like this. If your just after a forum that you want to use straight away, as above! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/217684-making-a-forum-project-with-php/#findComment-1129986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Eagle Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 If you'd like to develop your own forum board, you must first realize this may take months of long hours and a lot of frustration as it will have security exploits, bugs, errors and messy coding. If you're a newcomer to PHP, it'll be even longer since you first have to work your way around it learning what and how it works and the functions. I suppose getting a degree would help a lot since that's great, doing online tutorials, buying books also help just as much, you should look into those as well. Forum boards take time to build, you'd require pretty much [*]Profiles [*]Categories [*]New Topic/Posts I can probably go on forever, allowing users to upload avatars, edit their own signatures, have their own little "blurbs" or about me's, their own locations, own ranks. It's a long process. A quick solution if you don't want that is looking at the vast majority of forum boards that are already developed and have been out for quite some time, which are for example, phpBB, MyBB, SMF, vBulletin (costs money). All are great. Good luck. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/217684-making-a-forum-project-with-php/#findComment-1130009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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