How do I set up a Forum???
19 September 2002, 03:13 PM
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Hey folks,
Just wanted to know what kind of software is used to create a forum like this one and what is required.
I want to add a forum feature to our local intranet site...I was wondering what was involved, ie is the software available 'out of a box' etc...
any help would me great....
thanks
Bing,...........
Just wanted to know what kind of software is used to create a forum like this one and what is required.
I want to add a forum feature to our local intranet site...I was wondering what was involved, ie is the software available 'out of a box' etc...
any help would me great....
thanks
Bing,...........
19 September 2002, 03:30 PM
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Few products available, what sort of features are available to you on the intranet?? PHP? MySQL? Or just plain old fashioned HTML?
I use phpBB on http://clanov.tk but that'll need php and MySQL, not sure if you haven't got those..
I use phpBB on http://clanov.tk but that'll need php and MySQL, not sure if you haven't got those..
19 September 2002, 04:09 PM
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I did this a while ago for our intranet.
If you don't want to get into db based solutions, try YaBB - runs with perl, nice and easy to set up.
If your looking at db stuff I'd recommend XMB or phpBB - both use php and can be used with MySQL, or other db's.
What sort of usage are you looking at?
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If you don't want to get into db based solutions, try YaBB - runs with perl, nice and easy to set up.
If your looking at db stuff I'd recommend XMB or phpBB - both use php and can be used with MySQL, or other db's.
What sort of usage are you looking at?
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19 September 2002, 04:11 PM
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http://www.infopop.com/
It's what Scoobynet started with but we outgrew it eventually. For a relatively small and occasional user community (ie <5-10,000, less than 20 or so posts per minute and a huge expectation taht you can search 10's of 1000s of threads in less than a microsecond
) then it's very cost effective
You can have it running out of the box in an hour or less
It looks remarkably like Scoobynet!
It doesn't use a database at all - I actually quite like it's internal design
[Edited by MartinM - 9/19/2002 4:18:45 PM]
It's what Scoobynet started with but we outgrew it eventually. For a relatively small and occasional user community (ie <5-10,000, less than 20 or so posts per minute and a huge expectation taht you can search 10's of 1000s of threads in less than a microsecond
) then it's very cost effectiveYou can have it running out of the box in an hour or less
It looks remarkably like Scoobynet!
It doesn't use a database at all - I actually quite like it's internal design
[Edited by MartinM - 9/19/2002 4:18:45 PM]
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19 September 2002, 04:34 PM
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UBB - simple. Biggest thing is downloading and installing Perl for Windows.
Why use a database when you don't need one? - UBB holds each thread in a separate HTML file. When someone posts a new message to a thread, UBB updates the HTML file for the page(and updates the 'contents page' web page as well). So all retrievals from the board are all static HTML. So, fantastic thread retrieval speed
Downside is potentially slower to add a new message and searching is slower when you've 100000 web pages to parse and you also end up with 10s of 10000s of files in your directory structure
..but if its a small community, I'd say you were probably OK
Theer's a freeware version that's worth implementing just to get a feel for. The licenced version, as far as I can remeber, was <£100
Why use a database when you don't need one? - UBB holds each thread in a separate HTML file. When someone posts a new message to a thread, UBB updates the HTML file for the page(and updates the 'contents page' web page as well). So all retrievals from the board are all static HTML. So, fantastic thread retrieval speed
Downside is potentially slower to add a new message and searching is slower when you've 100000 web pages to parse and you also end up with 10s of 10000s of files in your directory structure
..but if its a small community, I'd say you were probably OK
Theer's a freeware version that's worth implementing just to get a feel for. The licenced version, as far as I can remeber, was <£100
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