How to make your own forums

by Tenshi

Posted: 13 years ago 11 replies

PROGRAMMING

Hey guys I am currently making a website from dreamweaver and photoshop. One thing I want on my website is to make my own forums and a members log in from my website. But I am not a really good expertise on this field... It can be in CSS,Java, html, or etc.

I really need to know how.

Also if anybody wants to help me out, I would gladly appreciate it

-tenshi

#forums #make

aaron_nimocks 13 years ago

Theres different forum software like phpbb, vbulletin, ipb, ect. that you can use.
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Jake Gray 13 years ago

Hi there,

There is no money to be made in forums. I wouldn't bother with it, not to mention, you'd be really busy with updating it every minute of the day due to security vulns.
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- Brandon Tanner 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Jake Gray
  
  There is no money to be made in forums.
  
  LOL. Don't tell that to a guy named Allen Says!
  
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  loristm 13 years ago
  
  How about using wordpress? Use wordpress to create you website and just modify it. there is a forum plugin for wordpress sites
  
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  Tenshi 13 years ago
  
  Well I am using SMF, and I love it!
  
  Using wordpress is too much work for needing one thing in my case...
  
  But thanks guys for the advice!
  
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  msforum01 13 years ago
  
  If you really want to make your own, you'll have to first become an "expert" on a scripting language ...
  
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  CarloD. 13 years ago
  
  I like SMF,
  
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Audrey Harvey 13 years ago

You can install a free forum script such as Simple Machines Forum using Fantastico in your cpanel. From there, it's not hard to add categories and board topics. The beauty of SMF is that there are lots of themes available, and lots of packages that add extra features, such as the ability to add advertisements, and more secure captcha. There's also a thriving support forum that is very helpful.
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blackstar3 13 years ago

Use MyBB forum script. It is best forum script as far as i am concerned. You can use Vbulletin but you need to buy the script. In case of Mybb script ,it is completely free. So Use Mybb script or Vbulletin For more details google as "mybb " or "Vbulletin"
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Senesoft 13 years ago

I have a couple of sites for which I use vBulletin 4.0 publishing suite. It's not cheap, but their support is very good and any problem's I've had have been addressed quickly.

The big draw for me to vB was that their forum system is really good, has lots of mods available for added functionality, supports adsense out of the gate.

But it's what I'm familiar with... There are other free products you can use, I always view forums as an add on to some type of CMS (whether you're talking about Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal etc...)

If I were developing a site in Joomla as a CMS, I'd probably choose Kunena forums.

I don't know what others opinions are, but I've pretty much dropped traditional web development from my portfolio and almost always develop the base site in some type of CMS (Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal...) Content is so much easier to maintain with a CMS back end (especially for clients).
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blogdecor 13 years ago

You should go with a forum Script like vBulletin or phpBB. Most of the forums on the web are using such scripts to create good looking forums. If you want to write your own script, that would be really messy.
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