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[Sephirot]

Hello,

this is my first post and my question might be a little noobish, but i was wandering how I can create something like a mini-forum, like this:

clubs.dir.bg/postlist.php?Board=ezotermed&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5

where all the topics appear, and when you open one, you see only one post at a time, and the others and listed below. I don't want to make user accounts and stuff, and everyone will be able to post without registering:
Something like he clicks post reply -> and goes to Name: (text field) Text: (text field).
I don't want to use MySQL, just PHP and text files if possible. I have no idea how to go about this, so I am hoping somebody can help me. Thanks in advance!

P.S The link is in Cyrillic, so the characters might appear fucked up, but when I find something similar in English, I'll replace this it.

[mikelbring]

I am sure there is a ton of tutorials on helping you. This is not just a simple tell you how but I can say using MySQL would be a lot easier.

[Sephirot]

I did search for tutorials, but I couldn't find a tutorial for this. If you could give me a link to one, this would be help enough.

[Xav]

How about storing the data in XML files instead of MySQL, or use sqlLite? Either way, you don't need a DB, and in the former you can use PHP's parsing functions.

[Sephirot]

Using XML files sounds great, only how do I create an XML file with PHP and could you please give me an example of parsing from an XML file? I think I should be able to handle the rest.

[Xav]

I think there's a PEAR package for it.

[Sephirot]

OK, I decided to use MySQL after all. I competed the forum and all on my computer but now I have another question. Everything is working fine on my computer but how do I upload the MySQL databases on a server? The databases consist of frm, MYD and MYI files in mysql/data. Do I just upload them in the main folder when on the server or do I somehow show the path to the databases to to the server?

[Xav]

Do you have phpMyAdmin on the web one? You can import databased from there.

[Sephirot]

I haven't actually decided where to upload it yet. But know I will be looking for one with phpMyAdmin. So how does it work?

[Xav]

You simply log in to phpMyAdmin, then on the main page click Import. I've just opened it now, the Select File dialogue seems to accept all types of files, but I don't have any local databases handy to try it. It should be fine though.

[Lily2009]

where all the topics appear, and when you open one, you see only one post at a time, and the others and listed below. I don't want to make user accounts and stuff, and everyone will be able to post without registering:
Something like he clicks post reply -> and goes to Name: (text field) Text: (text field).
I don't want to use MySQL, just PHP and text files if possible. I have no idea how to go about this, so I am hoping somebody can help me.