Topic: Vganda

Hey, this is what I've been working on for the past few months or so on. I didn't want to use verison 1.2 because I thought it was to complicated for my needs. I didn't want user groups or anything like that so I stuck with good old verison 1.1.5... tongue Tell me what you think. Oh I had to remove the copyright because I don't use the footer.php file anymore.  I relocated the copyright to the links page. So any criticism whether good or bad is wanted. I still am working out the bugs so please bear with me...

Here's the link:
http://vganda.com/forums.php


~Goober

2 (edited by Dr.Jeckyl 2005-07-07 21:54)

Re: Vganda

i noticed a link in your links directory is labeled wrong.. you have "CSS Skateboard Shop" and the page it links to is "CCS".

just a heads up.

~James
FluxBB - Less is more

Re: Vganda

Thanks, I fixed it...

Re: Vganda

Howdy...

I am using this forum on 2 of my domains...

Yours  looks good.. I have been kinda lurking in here looking for how to put a forum like that inside the regular theme of the pages instead of linking back and forth between the main website and the forum..  Got any suggestions or tutorials I could see to tell me how to do that? I have tried unsuccessfully in the past!

Thanks

Re: Vganda

You're about the 999th person who asks me this. I only used the basic features of punbb, no templates or language files or anything like that. I grabbed the code I needed. You have to be into PHP and MYSQL if you want to make that work. There's a lot to be modified, and its impossible to give you a step by step how-to.

You can use the extern.php file of punbb to get the active topics list, but if you just know the very basics of PHP and MYSQL, you should be able to easily do it yourself.

Don't be discouraged though; when I started out with all this php stuff I was messing around with a very simple script not knowing anything about php and mysql (I did know about HTML), and learned along the way. I suggest you try the same thing. Get a simple messageboard( punbb of course wink ) - or similar script, and start messing with it. However, if you don't know the basics of HTML I suggest you start with that first.

You can check www.hotscripts.com for scripts, but there are more sites out there of course.

Im not sure what you already know, but if you are a total beginner I'd suggest this:

1. Do a HTML tutorial. And do it all in NOTEPAD, not dreamweaver. You'll become a 1337 HTML'er who knows what he's doing. It'll save you a LOT of time to fix errors and stuff. There have been quite some dreamweaver-fella's who needed help with the most simple errors on their websites. Start using dreamweaver when you can write all the basic html in notepad.

2. Find a nice PHP+MYSQL script with something like a message submit into a database. Whatever you don't understand you will find in any basic PHP/MYSQL tutorial. Mess with it, change stuff, see what happens. If you're at this point and get stuck, you can ask me for help if you want.

3. Try to recreate stuff.

Trial and error will make you good, no matter how much tutorials you read. But you already know that of course.

Good luck,

Goober

Re: Vganda

Thanky very much..