I have a question....

[Ark_Angel_Hacker]

I want to write my own forum, but i dont know where to start. Can anyone help me get started on how to write my Forum?

[WingedPanther]

Moved to the correct forum.

What server side languages do you know? Are you familiar with SQL?

[Jordan]

You will need to know a server side language and how to make that language interact with a database. Server side languages include PHP, ASP, Perl, Ruby and a few other less popular methods such as c++ as CGI.

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[Orjan]

and as well, you would need to know a good data storage, for example SQL.

The main thing for a forum consists of these entities:
* Users
* Categories
* Threads
* Posts
* Groups and/or rights

where categories normally is self-iterable(?), so one category can be a "parent category" for another one. Normally only holds parent-info and the name

Threads are a container for the posts, mostly information on topic, creator, and category belongings.

Posts is the very text messages, storing author, text and to which thread it belongs

Groups would be user grouping to let different people have different access. there are may ways to perform the same thing here, if needed, even.

[Xav]

If you really don't know where to start, I think you ought to become a bit more familiar with web technologies in general before making your forum. Or just use something like phpBB, free and pretty good.

[Ark_Angel_Hacker]

I know some HTML.

[Orjan]

Then, you have to ask yourself if you want to learn html really good, and also CSS, PHP & SQL, or if you can work with a ready solution (which is really well customizable if you want to as well) that does not require that much knowledge. The first option, if you are fast learner, I think it would take somewhere six to twelve months before having enough experience and knowledge to create a decent forum.

[MrGamma]

I want to write my own forum, but i dont know where to start. Can anyone help me get started on how to write my Forum?

I would download a copy of phpBB... I always thought the database structure was well done. I am sure others have different opinions but it would be a really good idea to learn how people structure the data before you try to code anything.

[Orjan]

I would download a copy of phpBB... I always thought the database structure was well done. I am sure others have different opinions but it would be a really good idea to learn how people structure the data before you try to code anything.

Yes. it's always good to get different views on solutions. I'm also one of those who download a couple of open source projects doing something similar, and see how they've solved the data and takes ideas...