Attempting to code a forum - Views :p

Nitrojan

Nitrojan

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Yeah.. got bored today so Im attempting to code a forum heh.. Not quite sure how it'll go but it'll be a good test to improve my PHP skills.

Only got the design for the main page and registration done at the moment.. and Ive decided.. I'm due for a tea break ;)

Here.. what do you think: http://entityhost.co.uk/forum/

Will have a nice image in the first box of the topic.. to show new posts etc.

EDIT: Whoops.. I realised I posted in the wrong forum! Can a mod please move this :)
 
Lol why do some of you think Im trying to compete with OCUK?

It's simply a project I have decided to embark on.. OCUK still wins no matter what! :D
 
Heh.. I know some PHP and MySQL, but not experienced at all with javascript.

If a forum is not the place to start, then what is?

(P.S I'm not a noob with PHP and MySQL, so don't say 'hello world' lol :D)
 
Ah thanks, just had a read through that.. :)

If anyone has any ideas regarding what I could add to the forums, then please let me know!

I've been coding mainly behing the scenes classes today and also fixed the registration page up to an extent.. You can register but it doesnt redirect anywhere :p

CSS got the better of me (Counter Strike source) hehe :D

EDIT: And the fact that my PHP captcha really started to annoy me.. It worked fine locally.. however wouldn't display when uploaded >_<

Here.. check the validations out: http://entityhost.co.uk/forum/register.php
 
Hidden field value? How would that work?

EDIT: Fixed the captcha :D It was that my host did not support freetype fonts.. so recoded it and kept it simple this time :p
 
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Ok, more devo. I've decided to really tidy up the HTML and CSS, and have added a bit of javascript to make it more functional and user friendly. Now to re-code the PHP making it more efficient.. woo! lol also got to incorporate mod_rewrite at some point too.

http://entityhost.co.uk/forum/

:)

EDIT: Wondering whether to have mod_rewrite now, as some servers wont have it enabled.
EDIT2: Decided to leave mod_rewrite for now. Am now working on forum display before re-coding register and login.
 
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Ok, another update..

I've recoded the HTML + CSS and I think imo it looks much better now. I've added the main 'data grab' part, so now the main structure is beginning to emerge.

I've also recoded the mysql class and it is more efficient than the first one :p

Planning on re-coding the registration to fit with the new mysql class and to tidy up the coding.

CSS has been tidied and updated now, allowing me to add a feature to update the forum style later on and allow easy template changing.

More to come!

Forum: Here
 
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