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One solution is to use server side includes, but if you don't know how to do that, you could do this:

1. Install the following "mod": http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2817

2. Then, in your main.tpl just add <?php include 'file.html' ?> wherever you want to include it.

Could you perhaps tell us what was wrong?

Ah, now I see. I didn't realise you would be hosting all the forums yourself. In that case, the security aspect isn't that crucial. It all depends on how you want to set it up. Are you going to have it all in one big bulletin board or do you want to divide it up into one bulletin board per school? Or do you want one bulletin board/database per graduation year? If it were me, I would probably have one bulletin board/database per school and then in them have forums for the different graduation years. That way, it will be easy to grant one member moderation access to a forum.

Edit: An option is to have one database per school and in that database have one bulletin board per graduation year (with different prefixes). That way, you can have more than one forum/room per graduation year (e.g. one for misc. discussions, one for seeking contact etc.).

I want to clarify that by forum I mean one "room" in a bulletin board and not the whole bulletin board. I.e. http://punbb.org/forums/index.php is a bulletin board and http://punbb.org/forums/viewforum.php?id=25 is a forum.

The raw performance penalty from having say 20 forums in the same database should be next to nothing. It would, however, not be so nice to administrate. 20 forums times 15 tables is a lot of tables to browse through :)

Ah, of course. That's a brilliant solution to the problem :)

Well, one (big) reason for splitting it up into different databases would be security. I'm not sure what kind of service you are going to offer, but if it's some kind of hosting that allows users to upload their own scripts (and stuff), someone could easily gain access to and manipulate all the other users tables. Also, if you are planning on giving the users access to the database through i.e. phpmyadmin, having one database per account is a must.

Yes, unfortunately. In version 1.1 of PunBB (which is in the works), the inclusion of config.php is done from include/common.php, so it will get easier in the next version :)

Edit: Could you perhaps solve it with a symlink?

IP-problemet är nu fixat i 1.1.

Having hundreds of forums in the same database is possible, but definately not recommended. It would be a nightmare to administrate.

Här kan alla lära alla. På IRC kan bara de som är på IRC lära de som är på IRC :D

Unfortunately there isn't any mechanism for creating groups among the users. The only possible solution I can think of is using Cactuz' mod, but it will require you to manually add access for every single user.

Kom in i #punbb på Quakenet. Det är ingen officiell kanal eller nåt, men jag brukar iaf vara där :)

Det du frågar efter är vad man brukar kalla för subforum. PunBB stöder tyvärr inte subforum och jag vet inte om det någonsin kommer göra det :)