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T-Chai · « **on:** June 20, 2006, 05:03:09 AM »

Has any body knows a good free forum that can be downloaded like yabb.
Why not use yabb? because somesaid you cannot change the back ground colour, so yabb would not fit my website.
Is that true tat yabb cannot change colour.
I need a dark colour forum

T-Chai · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2006, 05:08:41 AM »

Ok i have downloaded yabb and phpBB-2.0.21 but i dont know where to start

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2006, 05:13:04 AM »

What web server, database and scripting language do you have on your host server?

Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2006, 05:22:59 AM »

Incidentally, I've tried out a lot of different forum software over the last few years. From an administrator's point of view, the best of the open source offerings was >Simple Machines Forum<. I haven't seen it in use much in my travels, but it blows phpBB and YaBB out of the water, IMHO. It's PHP- and MySQL-driven.

Flame · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2006, 07:03:40 AM »

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What web server, database and scripting language do you have on your host server?

He's on my host. We suppost Perl, PHP, CGI, the works. Elixr, as I said in the PM on my forum, I will be installing this for you sometime today. The only question now is if you refer something like PHPBB, YABB, or SMF. Your choice.

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Rob Pomeroy · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2006, 08:41:53 AM »

Aha.

SMF is that kind of software that deserves to be better known. It is in fact derived from YaBB; it's a code fork that arose from porting YaBB from Perl to PHP. As far as I have been able to tell, it's a fair bit better than YaBB.

soybean · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2006, 08:47:29 AM »

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Has any body knows a good free forum that can be downloaded like yabb.
Why not use yabb? because somesaid you cannot change the back ground colour, so yabb would not fit my website.
Is that true tat yabb cannot change colour.
I need a dark colour forum

Oh, come on now! You really believe the background colour can't be changed with a yabb forum? Haven't you seen any yabb forums? You need to go over to http://www.yabbforum.com/community/ and get the facts. You say you need a dark background. Is this dark enough: http://www.mafia-sh1t.p4h.biz/yabb/YaBB.pl?

Flame · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2006, 09:58:56 AM »

Actually, I was just going to install the skin I have, assuming Elixr wants PHPBB lol Once I hear back on which forum we want, I'll install it.

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soybean · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2006, 10:51:51 AM »

I think he really needs to spend some time getting familiar with the adminstrative panel. That's where he can change the appearance of a forum.

T-Chai · « **Reply #9 on:** June 20, 2006, 10:51:58 AM »

Thank you lot so much for alot of information

Thank flame i appreciated if you install it for me
I got another question about loging in, i have draw out some login field on my index page, how can i get it to link to the forum?

soybean · « **Reply #10 on:** June 20, 2006, 11:07:33 AM »

Why not just put a link to the forum on your index page? Visitors would login on the main forum page, not your home/index page. That's the way it's usually done.

T-Chai · « **Reply #11 on:** June 20, 2006, 12:06:26 PM »

I thought of that but i would like to know how anyway

Flame · « **Reply #12 on:** June 20, 2006, 12:12:56 PM »

PHPBB2 was installed. Enjoy

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unlovedwarrior · « **Reply #13 on:** June 28, 2006, 05:02:05 PM »

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Incidentally, I've tried out a lot of different forum software over the last few years. From an administrator's point of view, the best of the open source offerings was >Simple Machines Forum<. I haven't seen it in use much in my travels, but it blows phpBB and YaBB out of the water, IMHO. It's PHP- and MySQL-driven.

It's PHP- and MySQL-driven??

can someone explain those to me or send me somewhere to learn
thanks

T-Chai · « **Reply #14 on:** June 28, 2006, 05:30:31 PM »

If you are a beginner in programming and scripting than you be ok try out some google search.
But if you dont know nothing about those than you might have to pay or take the hard way of googling search
Click here if you want to pay
Email me if you do not want to pay

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