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Posted by sw on 08/13/07 20:21
On Aug 13, 2:14 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
> sw wrote:
> > I'd like to establish a forum website for people in our neighbourhood
> > to leave and read information. I have some web space from sympatico
> > and was wondering if that would support the forum concept.
> > Is it necessary to set up a web hosting arrangement prior to doing
> > this or does it depend upon the amt of traffic expected?
>
> Much depends on the web-space provider, one of my ISPs (have one modem based,
> in case I would get trouble with my broadband) offers a number of features
> that you can add to your homepage, like gallery and web forum.
>
> For the best forum scripts you need both PHP and MySQL access, of which MySQL
> access is rarely given out for free. You can use less advanced forum scripts
> that uses plain text files to store the data. I do suggest you take a look at
> freshmeat.net for forum scripts and check which script languages your web
> space provider allows you to use.
>
> > Also, could anyone recommend a book or web site to demonstrate the
> > forum concept?
>
> One of many forum scripts:http://www.phpbb.com/
> Wikipedia about the above forum script:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB
>
> --
>
> //Aho
Much appreciated!
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