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Name: Leo the 28C (by Sulfurik)
Date: June 17, 2005 at 18:39:22 Pacific
Subject: Free forum software?
OS: Windows XP SP2
CPU/Ram: 1.4 GHz/480 MB
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Hello everyone! :D
OK, I want to have a forum in my site... How would I do that? I want some good sotware, with options and all of that. I've tried phpNuke, e107, and phpBB, but all 3 of those give me a bunch of PHP files that don't open in my browser, and some HTML files that are blank, and I can't open them in Notepad because they're all messed up, some kind of Linux charset or something... I was looking into IPB (Invision PowerBoard), but I can't find the free version, and it's probably the same as the first 3 I mentioned... What can I use? Thanks! ;)

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Response Number 1
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: June 18, 2005 at 05:34:06 Pacific
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To use Nuke or PhpBB you will need to have a web server that supports PHP and a MySQL database server. You can't simply open a PHP file in your browser, it has to be processed by a web server. The instructions provided are pretty strait-forward, but depending upon your level of experience you may need to find someone to help you get it set up.

In any even, you are going to need to have a solution that requires soem sort of scripting/programming language and a database. The scripting language is required in order to build the dynamic pages and you need the database to store the data.


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Response Number 2
Name: Leo the 28C (by Sulfurik)
Date: June 18, 2005 at 14:15:06 Pacific
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Ooohh... OK, well, that answers my question. I got some friends that use PHP, I'm gonna ask them about it. Much thanks! ;)

http://www.boredsource.com/sulfurik/
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hotline://tsfc.ath.cx

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Response Number 3
Name: roryspangler
Date: June 18, 2005 at 18:01:56 Pacific
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PHPBB BY FAR! or check out mambo... great portal site, easy forum set up also

Rory Spangler
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