PHP Forum

**sail3005** · Nov 1st, 2001, 06:15 PM

We are gonna start building a PHP forum.

current members:

- sail3005
- Dork 1
- da_silvy

if you wanna join, post here.

**Dork 1** · Nov 1st, 2001, 10:30 PM

I got iis5 php and mysql

**sail3005** · Nov 2nd, 2001, 09:42 AM

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.

**da_silvy** · Nov 3rd, 2001, 07:10 PM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 3rd, 2001, 07:11 PM

Have you got it working now?

**sail3005** · Nov 3rd, 2001, 07:29 PM

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

**Dork 1** · Nov 3rd, 2001, 08:38 PM

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

**sail3005** · Nov 4th, 2001, 10:48 AM

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

**Dork 1** · Nov 4th, 2001, 12:32 PM

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

phatBB sounds pretty good

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 06:02 PM

I'm insterested in joining this!

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)

**sail3005** · Nov 4th, 2001, 08:03 PM

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

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 08:14 PM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 08:42 PM

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

I use notepad or wordpad

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

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 08:43 PM

Okay.

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 08:46 PM

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....

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 08:54 PM

http://www.openbb.net

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:02 PM

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

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:03 PM

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).

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:04 PM

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

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.

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:23 PM

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

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:25 PM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:27 PM

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

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:28 PM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:34 PM

Post them here?

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:36 PM

?

Sorry, I don't get what you mean.

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:45 PM

Post the admin options here

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:51 PM

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

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 09:52 PM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 10:09 PM

yeah i gather...

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 11:14 PM

What do you want me to work on?

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 11:14 PM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 4th, 2001, 11:17 PM

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...

**eiSecure** · Nov 4th, 2001, 11:18 PM

OpenBB SQL

An Error has occured, please contact the system administrator.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fatal Error: Could not find database on the server
Query:

BTW: I can make all the graphics, etc.

**da_silvy** · Nov 5th, 2001, 12:04 AM

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?

**Dork 1** · Nov 5th, 2001, 12:41 AM

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

**da_silvy** · Nov 5th, 2001, 12:43 AM

it should be both...

http://144.132.20.16/phatBB/

have a look

**da_silvy** · Nov 5th, 2001, 03:23 AM

Dork 1.

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

yes/no?

Is that right?

**da_silvy** · Nov 5th, 2001, 08:37 AM

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...

**Dork 1** · Nov 5th, 2001, 11:10 AM

Live in canada and have shaw cable

**sail3005** · Nov 5th, 2001, 04:49 PM

da_silvy, your link is down.

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