Discussion Boards

Do you want to have your own forum? Well, in this tutorial i will show you the steps to make your own forum. There are many �bulletin boards� available on the market. Today we will install The Simple Machine Forum a.k.a. SMF. You have to download the files from the download section of the simplemachineforum.org. Always use the last stable version available.

Do you want to have your own forum? Well, in this tutorial i will show you the steps to make your own forum. There are many �bulletin boards� available on the market. Today we will install The Simple Machine Forum a.k.a. SMF.

A in-depth tutorial was added today on how to build a simple linear message board in php/mysql. It includes all the files and code and provides explanations on how the mechanics work for a basic forum.

BBcode is popular on many discussion boards and allows your users to submit formatted content in an easy to understand way. Correctly processing this content and converting it to html for display on your site can unfortunately be difficult. In this article I demonstrate a simple and straightforward way to process BBCode formatted content using the HTML_BBCodeParser package available from PEAR.

This is a full chapter from the recently published book 'Building Online Communities with phpBB'. Covering chapter 4 'Customizing Your Forum'. The quality of this article is extremely high class with in depth descriptions and diagrams. View it in HTML for your enjoyment.

This comment scirpt uses MySQL and can be used for unique pages. The tutorial guides you through the process, step by step.

Shows how to make your whole site a phpBB portal using the tutorial, and several other add-ons and hacks. This is the gateway to making your site.. BIG!

This tutorial will walk you through the process of making a threaded discussion system. Using PEAR::DB and PHP 4 we'll create a recursive function that will display comments in a threaded style.