My own forum :)

Howdy,
I've been working on a forum in php for a while now. I think i finally got it somewhat functional. I just wanted to get the opinion of some of the people from here about it. I know it's nothing compared to all the free ones such as phpbb, but I made it myself and I like it :). I was thinking it would be good for people who would like forum type software, but no extras, just as simple as it gets.
Here is my site: http://67.11.206.247
Some of you may cringe when you look at it, but it used to be a lot worse. Please give me any positive or negative feedback or suggestions. Thank you :)

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I almost forgot, if anyone tries to register, a lot of places don't except email from my smtp server. So, you can either post here with your username saying you didn't get your email, and I will manually verify it, or if you're not very excited about joining my site, just don't worry about it. I usually go through every once in a while and delete the unverified accounts.

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didn't want to make a new post for this but you are verified now nihil and I'll work on the colors. peace :)

Puce (purple) = puke.................do something about it!

Maybe a nice lime green (being a limey I would say that :D )


Otherwise, It does not like my e-mail

Cheers ;)

Not bad, I've been thinking about writing my own forum system but I never seem to have the time. punBB is good though if you want a minimalist system without having to write it from scratch.

nice one! could be used as a guestbook too.
i am no expert..but my bg color suggestion will be.[i do have a little knowledge in color psychology]
#e9e9e9
#E9EFF5
light/pastel colors would avoid eyestrains/fatigue and headaches. very safe to add graphics too.
blue is good one if its either in light or soft tone. blue [soft] is a good "marketing" color. microsoft uses it as their prime color.

verify me, verify meeeeeee :)

Darnit, I should just take out email verification and have it auto verify. Everyone in there as of 5 minutes ago is verified. I changed the colors a little, and the banner. The banner is messed up cause when i save as .jpg it makes little swirls where diff colors meet. Oh well, at least it's not plain. Thanks for the feedback. Also, I can zip up the code if anyone wants it, but it's not pretty, lol. I've been paranoid at backing it up, I do it almost everyday to multiple computers. Don't want to lose all that work. Also, since I posted this I added a feature to see all the posts by each user, which you can get either though the links in the member list or by clicking their post count in their posts. And i fixed a couple of bugs on the registration page that I was pm'd about. Thanks guys for messing with it, every little bit helps me.

omg u already have more meber than my forum at www.introonline.com/forums ;)

The color is much -much better now, i suggest you try a few more background colors. The navigation could be improved , you cauld place the controls on top, rather than bottom(or you can place them on both ends)

lol i was viewing the members list and was looking for the back button the page................ i scrolled up and down but found no back button on the page....................... and guess what i met a member named back who took me back lol. i really thought he was a member.............

I ithink just after logging in the user should be directly Fourm list.. and these three options

• view forum one
• view members
• logout

Should be on each page either on top as a navigation menu or on right hand side. As i said what i found laking on your site is proper navigation system.....

Just my thought

--Good Luck---

:rofl:
that's funny. I think today after school I'm gonna make it to where the user can specify what color the background, table background, cell background and text background are. I will store the values in the db to be grabbed and applied. As for the back link, I probably should separate it into another table, and I think that's a good idea to have a set navigation on every page at the top right or something. I was trying to setup the userdefined color thing last night, but for some reason my computer just didn't want to find and replace things. I think it had something to do with quotes being in what I was trying to find and replace. Thanks for the suggestions, and I know it's kinda overdone to put two banners, but two people made me banners and I like them both. I'll work on some things, hopefully within the next couple of days I'll have the navigation done and have it to where the user can define colors. Maybe I'll transfer the files to windows, to the find and replace, then transfer them back. we'll see. Thank you all very much for the suggestions. I hope to have a lot more features soon.

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Well, the forum is going through some major reconstruction look wise. May not look major, but the code seems to be :(. Should still function no matter how ackward it looks. I'm having a little problem. When I make the div tags, I have to give them really odd values to get them in the positions I want, and when I put something after a div tag that has been moved up a lot, it pretends like it was not moved up and leaves a big space where it would be. Anyone know a way to fix that? All I can think of now is to just use div tags everywhere, but that doesn't sound like a very good solution. I'll probably just switch to tables and make them invisible :). In the meantime, any suggestions would be appreciated.

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/me is stupid
that's what I get for looking at and using other people's code. I had position:relative in my div tag, I needed absolute I guess. I've never used them though. I learned something at least. Seems to be coming along now.
Thanks again everyone for your input and keep it coming.

I did a lot of work today. Wore myself out. I'm sure with all the stuff I added there's bound to be many new bugs. If you find any please pm me or post on here or my board about them. Thank you.

Nice custom forum! I wanted to make my own some time last year and it made it to reading out of a text file and displaying stuff and listing variable numbers of articles. It was more of a news thing instead of a forum. No where near as nice as yours though!

Keep up the great work, I like the look and effort. BTW, I just poked at it softly and the way it handles errors (nothing shows up in that content area - forums with non-existant post #'s) is acceptable I guess... :)

Good job dude.
i havent had time to learn php or mysql yet so congrats to you!

njkt

Thanks for the positive feedback. I've been neglecting my schoolwork cause I can't stop thinking about what I'm going to do next to the site. I have made it auto verify you when you register so you will not receive an email anymore and as long as you filled in the form correctly you will be registered and verified. I added a feature last night to let you customize all the colors and the table border, the default border is 0. it's pretty neat :). I like it. So now if you don't like my colors you can't complain, make it how you want it. Who knows what will come next. Thanks again.

Congrats... Your well on your way to being a php/MySQL junkie/whore/monkey.


Now its time to test your user input validation ;)

Now that your good in PHP, I may be able to use you for some coding jobs for some $$$. Keep in touch.

www.planetmaddness.com

xmad