RE: [PHP] Looking for a forum

I went through a load of forum systems recently that I found on www.hotscripts.com, but none of them had what I wanted - In the end, I used the bare-bones forum system in 'PHP & MySQL Web Development' by Welling and Thomson and added: - My own existing login system (I was integrating forums into a larger project) - My own templating system - Separate forums - A bunch of other functions such as 'who's online', #topics, #posts, last post, last user to post, etc. In the end, after spending nearly 2 weeks fiddling around trying to work out why people use variables like $a, $b and $c and never comment their code, I managed to get my system running smoothly with no 'workarounds' to incorporate complex systems. I'm really happy with the end result, and I'd recommend starting from the bottom up rather than stripping out the unnecessary code from other projects. If you only need a forum and want a fully-featured solution, I'd recommend phpBB from those I looked at. Mick -----Original Message----- From: Paul Nicholson [mailto:paul@dtnicholson.com] Sent: 26 September 2002 12:20 To: jtjohnston@courrier.usherb.ca; John Taylor-Johnston; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Looking for a forum -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, http://www.ibforums.com/ ~Pauly On Thursday 26 September 2002 01:26 am, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for some forum script, a bit like this: > http://www.chevelles.com/cgi-bin/forum/Ultimate.cgi > Can anyone post a link to something useful? > John - -- ~Paul Nicholson Design Specialist @ WebPower Design "The web....the way you want it!" paul@webpowerdesign.net "It said uses Windows 98 or better, so I loaded Linux!" Registered Linux User #183202 using Register Linux System # 81891 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9ku11DyXNIUN3+UQRAvs9AJ4jGZ9X4QKEXQDhKYXBLAjTXzO/ygCcCHXw aT5wk0Z0Lc97xlqpIgQQaHs= =po2u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----