PHP Forum

We are gonna start building a PHP forum.

current members:

- sail3005
- Dork 1
- da_silvy

if you wanna join, post here.

I got iis5 php and mysql

i am trying to set up PHP on apache. i haven't done it before on winXP, and it's not working. i might just go back to 2k.

Is it going to be a server, or is it ur general computer?

Have you got it working now?

my computer. I have no idea how to start working on the forum though.

I'm still learning php how about you sail?

We need to plan the forum
Post your ideas for the forum here is what I have so far

- Customizable
- Moderaters
- Forum Code
- Smilies / Admin can add or remove smilies
- Forum Code for formating text
- Bad word filter
- Owner can edit/delete own post
- Multi Forums and Catagorys

And all the ussual stuff

we can use the basic ideas from the main BB's. like VBulletin and UBB. ok, and dork, i am just starting to learn.

I'm learning aswell shouldn't take to long php seems like a easy language to learn

phatBB sounds pretty good

I'm insterested in joining this!:D

I think we should have it look A LOT like vBulletin (everything, except maybe the copyright footer;)).

The forum should have very detailed administration features, such as disabling/enabling attachments, avatars, guest posting, etc.

The forum statistics should work, also, with an option to recount membership, repair boards/forums, disable post counts in specific forums, and stuff like that. (Basically a combination of OpenBB's features and looks with YaBB's administration powers):cool: ;) :p

hey, get PHP coder, it is a cool IDE for PHP. it will help us.

Are we going to start from scratch, or are we going to use OpenBB as a "base"?

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Originally posted by sail3005
hey, get PHP coder, it is a cool IDE for PHP. it will help us.

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I use notepad or wordpad

I think that we're gonna start from scratch...

Okay.:)


...although I DO think that will more than likely triple our coding time.

OK fine, we can use openBB as a base if you want.

Send it to me, I'll have a look in about 2-3 weeks

Supposed to be studying atm....

http://www.openbb.net

lol

It's a great big rip off from vBulletin it looks

I guess all would have to be, to be a good forum

Do we have to show that it was a openBB base forum?
or just modify it and call it our own?

What hacks do you want me to work on for it?

that's alot of quesitons :eek:

Well...if we do a MAJOR overhaul, I believe that we don't need to include a reference to OpenBB (By that, I mean modifying EVERY file majorly).

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Originally posted by da_silvy
lol

It's a great big rip off from vBulletin it looks

I guess all would have to be, to be a good forum

Do we have to show that it was a openBB base forum?
or just modify it and call it our own?

What hacks do you want me to work on for it?

that's alot of quesitons :eek:

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Look at http://www.eisecure.f2s.com (http://www.eisecure.f2s.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl is a YaBB version). Look at the board statistics, and look at the number of posts/threads. There's 0 threads, but i've got one in the anouncements forum. If I delete that, it becomes -1.

Obvious bug there.:rolleyes: :D

nah, it's so that you can get rid of threads (i.e. free up space) and still let ppl keep their post count.

Like my first 1000 posts probably don't exist anymore :(

Yes, but maybe we can fix is so it doesn't screw up the counter, and still have people keep their post counts.

You can have 2 options.

We can add these admin hacks maybe

1. Delete inappropriate thread
2. Normal Delete (to free space)

1 - Kills post count as well
2 - Let's them keep their post count ;)

Also, if you will take a look at YaBB's admin features, I think they deserve to be in OpenBB as well.:)

Post them here?

?

Sorry, I don't get what you mean.

Post the admin options here

General Controls
Edit Categories (reorder/create/remove)
Edit Boards (reorder/create/remove)


Member Controls
View/Delete Members
Edit Member groups
E-Mail Your Members
Ban Members
Set Reserved Names


Forum Configuration
Edit Your Forum Template
Forum Preferences and Settings
Set censored words
Clean active log


Maintenance Controls
Repair all passwords
Repair All Boards and Topics
Recount All Board Totals
Recount Membership
Rebuild the members list

That's just what's on the main form. There's a LOT more options inside those options.

yeah i gather...

Well we start with one, host it see what ppl think then have a forum feedback and go from there.

What do you want me to work on?

um...you can start the admin functions...

If i am online:

http://144.132.20.16/phatBB/index.php

have a look,

we need to decide on a color scheme for our demo methinks...

OpenBB SQL

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Query:

BTW: I can make all the graphics, etc.

Try again

I can also do graphics, but I'll let you do that ;)

What about some forum titles?

Feedback

PHP Forum
-Discuss PHP here

CGI Forum
-Discuss CGI here

VB Forum
-Discuss VB Here

General Web Forum
-ASP, Java, Javascript, VBScript, HTML


Moderators - For all Forums, or specify which forums they have control of?

You two talk alot :P almost done my homework (had to design a web page using html dhtml and had to do it in notepad) ahhh lol

really good ideas

think it should be specified witch forums moderators have rights to

and welcome eiSecure

it should be both...


http://144.132.20.16/phatBB/

have a look

Dork 1.

You live in New York and you have cable with Shaw Cable Systems?

yes/no?

Is that right?

I now say that we start from scratch.

Using popular bb's as leaping points for code, then we know what's going on and we know what to change to fix something...

Live in canada and have shaw cable

da_silvy, your link is down. :(