Making a forum using php.

[cheatpark]

I'm not asking anyone to make me a script but where is the best place to start when making a forum in php.

 

[niv]

www.phorum.org/

 

[MN-Carl]

Originally posted by cheatpark
I'm not asking anyone to make me a script but where is the best place to start when making a forum in php.

OK just to give you an idea on the work involved to make a good forum - i charge £20-£40 per hour for programming.

i estimate it would take around 20-25 hours to make a really good forum.

Nuff said ... i'm pretty good programmer .. i hope you are ... unless you wanna make a basic one ..


ADD > my 1500 post , weehhaayy .. can get custom title soon

 

[cheatpark]

I was thinking of editting an open source forum. Which is the best one to use? I think hayuma kun was recommending phorum if I am right.

 

[cheatpark]

Anyone else got some advice?

 

[Woofcat]

forums are easy to code... write your own from scratch... all the open source ones i know of are inefficient as hell and not very good...

 

[long4net.com]

Which free one is good?

 

[cheatpark]

http://www.woltlab.de

 

[megapuzik]

Im sure that there is plenty of cool and small scripts in www.hotscripts.com.... look for small boards, not like phpBB and friends, the small ones....

 

[cheatpark]

Yeah, looking at small scripts at first is probably good because there is not much to concentrate on.

 

[Kaliber]

It is pretty hard making your own forum, you would have to have extensive PHP knowledge! I could build just a simple one like wwwBoard in a few hours, but a difficult one like phpBB or XMB & family would take at least a couple of days to integrate all the features.