Need to make a website... php related.

the_brainaic · 24 Jan 2006 at 14:22

At school I've entered an activity called 'Young Scientists', where the objective is to set up a website that will contain scientific articles aimed at people around my age, i.e. 15-18. Now, I've made websites in html before but this site is slightly more ambitous than that and it's going to involve things such as having comments for each seperate article, probably a login box with profiles and linked forums, a page where the maintainers can add in articles, article submission systems etc. I realise that this means I may well have to learn php, so where would the best place be to start for a site such as the one I've just described?

Thanks for your help!

Beansprout · 24 Jan 2006 at 15:31

Just install Wordpress (at least, that's the simplest route)

Nix · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:07

Alternatively, and this might be a long shot... but have a look at the punbb forums. You can use mods etc to do things like that and all the php is done for you. So, a very basic knowledge of php is all that is needed.

All the customizing is pretty much done in CSS.

leezer3 · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:31

Try PHP-Fusion ( http://www.php-fusion.co.uk )- To my mind its the most newbie-friendly PHP based CMS out there

Cheers

-Leezer-

Beansprout · 24 Jan 2006 at 17:59

leezer3 said:
Try PHP-Fusion ( http://www.php-fusion.co.uk )- To my mind its the most newbie-friendly PHP based CMS out there

Cheers

-Leezer-

Haha, this rocks - someone did a Wordpress-lookalike hack of that CMS:

http://www.fusionkubrick.glt.pl/

leezer3 · 24 Jan 2006 at 18:56

Yeah, I've seen that, but I like the default look personally.
My own twiddled implementation is at http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk/fusion

-Leezer-