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Hi, i think this is a pretty nice and simple forum. Im looking for something like this for my own website. Can anyone tell, was this forum custom made for/by BR? or was it a package or script (like for example phpBB or ..)?
Thanks for your input.
They made it themselves.
I'm not too sure who made it, but I do think Mark had something to do with it.
Years ago, I bought Maplet when it was released and my BUID wouldnt work in the register page so I emailed Mark.
He sent me a reply stating there indeed was a problem with the php scripting or something and it would be fixed.
Though, he saved himself the trouble and just released Maplet for free to everyone! :D
Dabz
lol @ maplet!
ok, i guess i will then have to write it myself then, its quite simple though.
I quite like PunBB, that is similar to BB forums, with a bunch of plugins etc. And a lot of custom skins that look quite nice.
What I don't like about open-source forums is the fact that malicious people have access to the source code and can use it against you, as they can find exploits, bugs, etc.
And if you are using a popular free forum, you are most likely to become a target for spambots.
Building your own, like you said, isn't that hard, especially if it's as simple as BB's, and if you don't know PHP/SQL, it's a good opportunity to give yourself a kick in the butt and learn it!
ok, i guess i will then have to write it myself then, its quite simple though.
Even more so if you use a framework like Ruby on rails, Django or Apache struts.
What I don't like about open-source forums is the fact that malicious people have access to the source code
So does everyone else.
they can find exploits
You can find exploits in closed source applications too.
I like this forum too, its search is very good compared to some and is nice and simple. The only moan ive got, is it would be nice to get post notifys of watched topics.
If your after a free forum try
www.freeforum101.com
then just intergrate it with your website remotely like i done here:
www.d-grafix.com?page=forum
for simplicity, power, no spam (yet) and security I can personally recommend punBB www.punbb.org Mine looks like this:
http://stcc.bansheestudios.com/talk Building your own, like you said, isn't that hard, especially if it's as simple as BB's, and if you don't know PHP/SQL, it's a good opportunity to give yourself a kick in the butt and learn it!
I know PHP and MySQL very well actualy :) its more a "time" issue. Just got so much things todo. phpBB is a bit to complicated, i think punBB would be a good alternative.
Bit of a thread hijack, but does anywhere here got a place they'd recommend regarding familiarizing one-self with PHP, as well as software that allows your PC to act as a server to test PHP code locally?
Been making a forum via ASP2.0 (bleh) at highschool, and it's apparently fairly simple as mentioned (to make something barebones that is, currently trying to implement ranks/thread deletion), but part of it has to do with the fact Microsoft's Web Developer Express does a fair bit of the work for you, so I couldn't just easily migrate from ASP to PHP, let alone setting up a MySQL database.
but does anywhere here got a place they'd recommend regarding familiarizing one-self with PHP
http://www.php.net as well as software that allows your PC to act as a server to test PHP code locally?
http://www.easyphp.orgAlso,
HeidiSQL is quite good for MySQL database management if you don't like/don't want to use PHPMyAdmin.
'aight, got me a nice little MySQL database setup, didn't take much effort.
Anyhow, was wondering, how the heck do you login to phpMyAdmin? I tried setting a password onto my root user, and the thing just tosses me an error altogether, rather than that standard Windows log-on display I was expecting....
(was playing with the phpMyAdmin privileges so I could understand it better, and it would suck if I ever got it online and didn't know how to properly configure it for security reasons ;/)
Going to be making me a blog to start things simple while I figure php all out, this [a http://codegrrl.com/!/tutorials/category/Build%20A%20Blog/P10/]range of tutorials[/a] seems to fit the bill with regards to getting me through that.
(php.net appears to be lacking "learn by example" type tutorials which I prefer to learn by, unless I missed it when navigating there)
Go to C:\Program Files\EasyPHP\phpmyadmin\config.inc.php.
Look on line 85 ($cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '<yourpassword>';) and enter your chosen password in there. Save the file then retry.
Originally I was gonna use one of those freeware opensource forum, but I needed full user integration to the website I'm developing, so I ended writing a custom forum with ASP.NET 2.0, based off the design and layout of this particular forum . I chose this one due to its simplicity and "straight to the point" concept without all the unneccessary mess of other forums.
Its practically identical and functional to this Blitz Research forum aside from the color schemes and such. Also added some extra features too. Its online right now, but I currently got it filled with junk after all the testings :p
I like using ASP.NET 2.0, maybe because it can be used with VB or C# and I can swing my head around it more than tagged web languages.
Dabz
Only thing nice about ASP.NET 2.0 for me was the fact it had Visual Web Developer that supported it, which made making your site work with a database so much easier, as I didn't have to remember all the commands and parameters since it had a drag-and-drop toolbox listing all the generic stuff and a drop-down parameters list.
There's not a PHP variant/equivelent of that I assume.