How to design forum

prash91 · July 20th, 2006, 11:13 AM

Well i'm making a website and i want to put forum on it
so anyone pls tell me how to design a Forum or any site where i can download a forum code

dparsons · July 24th, 2006, 10:05 AM

This is completely open source (In PHP, but PHP isnt that tough to understand):
http://www.phpbb.com/

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prash91 · July 25th, 2006, 06:47 AM

Thanks for reply dparsons

but i want to design it in ASP

so any code pls

dparsons · July 25th, 2006, 07:22 AM

Well, your question isn't really an ASP centric question so to speak. At its most basic level all a forum is is a relational database once you have the database figured out and optimized, writing the front end is rudementary because all it has to do is make calls to the database and display data and allow for the insertion of data.

Of course you have the user management part of it but even that is rudimentary. Really, once you wrap your head around that concept, writing your own shouldnt be to difficult.

Hth.

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