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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 1423396" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>Well, first you'll need to learn PHP and become comfortable with it. You can take classes for this or you can go out and buy various books on the topic. You will also need to learn how to interact with a database (one of the most common when using php is MySQL) - many books that cover PHP bring you through the basics of database manipulation (it won't make you a master at SQL, but it will get you started). </p><p></p><p>Now once you have all of that done you'll need to start learning advanced error checking, security handling (preventing improper code from getting executed on your site or your database that could expose things you don't want exposed), etc.</p><p></p><p>I really think you're going after an overly large target. If you were to go an look at the code involved on quality message board packages you'd see that there is a LOT of work for which you could probably better spend your time working on other aspects of your site in terms of incorporating PHP and making your site more dynamic (which is an easier target then building your own message board from scratch). You don't have to use a third party site to use forum software on your website (as a matter of fact, many hosting companies have forum installs available for their clients which you can access through your control panel). In terms of authentication, I don't think that really throws many people off these days. Most are used to needing to have an account at a given site to be able to interact with the forums of the given web site. </p><p></p><p>If you just want to be able to accept peoples comments (like how they are handled on a blog) as opposed to a full blown message board, there are many pre made PHP scripts out there that will do that for you; even some of the books you can get to learn PHP have some samples that can be modified to work as a "leave your comments below" type of script.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Raz0rEdge managed to post before I got my reply up - Raz0r adds a valid point that I completely forgot to make about being inundated by spam postings if you have no way to validate (login, email, etc.) people</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 1423396, member: 89124"] Well, first you'll need to learn PHP and become comfortable with it. You can take classes for this or you can go out and buy various books on the topic. You will also need to learn how to interact with a database (one of the most common when using php is MySQL) - many books that cover PHP bring you through the basics of database manipulation (it won't make you a master at SQL, but it will get you started). Now once you have all of that done you'll need to start learning advanced error checking, security handling (preventing improper code from getting executed on your site or your database that could expose things you don't want exposed), etc. I really think you're going after an overly large target. If you were to go an look at the code involved on quality message board packages you'd see that there is a LOT of work for which you could probably better spend your time working on other aspects of your site in terms of incorporating PHP and making your site more dynamic (which is an easier target then building your own message board from scratch). You don't have to use a third party site to use forum software on your website (as a matter of fact, many hosting companies have forum installs available for their clients which you can access through your control panel). In terms of authentication, I don't think that really throws many people off these days. Most are used to needing to have an account at a given site to be able to interact with the forums of the given web site. If you just want to be able to accept peoples comments (like how they are handled on a blog) as opposed to a full blown message board, there are many pre made PHP scripts out there that will do that for you; even some of the books you can get to learn PHP have some samples that can be modified to work as a "leave your comments below" type of script. EDIT: Raz0rEdge managed to post before I got my reply up - Raz0r adds a valid point that I completely forgot to make about being inundated by spam postings if you have no way to validate (login, email, etc.) people [/QUOTE]
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