26096Open for Discussionhttp://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/06/junk/Many Web sites offer message and discussion boards to attract and retain visitors. Boards have been used for everything from dating services to stock advice. They often play an important part in marketing strategies because they provide answers to pre- and post-sale questions. They are also popular on company intranets. Web developers have responded to the popularity of discussion boards, and they labor at designing their own boards from scratch.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > Discussion BoardsOct 15, 2006
There are 2 commonly used data management system.
a) Using a Database System ( Oracle 9i, mysql, MsAssess postsql etc )
b) Using a flat file (text file)
In this tutorial, I will show you how to make your whole site more dynamic, by including the PHPbb login to work all all the pages of your site. This tutorial will hopefully help increase your knowledge of PHP, and mySQL. With some very simple, and easy modifications, which I include here, you can easily add Birthday Announcements, Users Online, Private Messages, and Recent Discussion to any page of your site. You can also use the PHPbb login information with other custom DB forms on your site. Expanding your site into an extremely dynamic community.
This tutorial will use many hacks from http://www.phpbbhacks.com/, some were greatly changed by me, and others. I will try my best to give credit to those who wrote the code, or came up with the idea
This tutorial will guide you through the process of building a comments script with PHP. The comments script will use a mySQL database to store and retrieve information. Its not too advanced, but additional features can easily be added, such as a delete feature and implementing usernames. If a user is logged in, display their username- if not, display "Guest" or something along those lines. Well discuss that more in detail later. So lets get started.
Integrating forums with your own application and user base can be a real pain in the ass. I’ve done this in the past with Vbulletin and phpBB, but it’s really not that much fun. Both involved some degree of hacking of their core code which means problems when trying to upgrade (you have to remember every tiny thing you did to make it work). As both products improve and get more advanced you’d think they’d have built nice apis to make this job easier. Apparently not yet…
Customizing Your Forum
Now that you have installed phpBB and gained some experience with the Administration Control Panel, you are ready to begin altering some more advanced aspects of
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