Hello all, I am trying to create a forum and website using PHP MYSQL & DWMX04....

i have already created my mysql db

i've created a table for forums with forum title(pk) & forum description

topics with topic_Id topic title, froum_title(foreign),creation dateTime, username(foreign)

user: username(pk),email, Password.

Posts: Post_id(PK) topic_id}(foreign) username(foreign) Post_message creation dateTime.

now need to use dreamweaver for the rest of it, one of the problems is that i messed about so long listening to different ppl tellin me which DBMS to use and went back and forth mainly between pg and mysql...then noticed that i had to use mysql for dreamweaver unless i used a plug in....but am very behind schedule and need to learn quick...and have to actually make it...i can't download bb,vb,phorum or that...

if anyone can point me in the right direction of a tutorial or offer any other help it would be greatly appreciated....i've had many problems with this whole thing so far and just want to see something for all the effort i've put in and what i've got left to put in....

thanks <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>

Quick question: <b>Why not use a popular free PHP forum?</b> (<i>phpBB</i> is the first to come to mind - www.phpbb.com)

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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
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because it started out as a personal project that i wanted to do for a music night that i do once a month...and thought i could nicorporate it into my uni work and do both at same time...(bad idea) <img src=../images/fwzone/forum/icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle> so now i have to do it and can't just have the website and download nuke or bb or any of them, i have to do it in dreamweaver php mysql

I'm not sure how good your current PHP/MySQL "Kung-Fu" is, but here's many places to start. None have specifically a "build a forum" tutorial, but it looks like you have your Database setup for what you'll need.

<b>PHP/MySQL</b> - First place to look for articles is <b>DMXzone's PHP/MySQL Premium Content area</b>: www.dmxzone.com/index.asp?TypeId=28&CatId=690
<ul><li>PHP Basics - Part 8: Cookies and Sessions - www.dmxzone.com/go?6656</li><li>Working with Session Variables in PHP - www.dmxzone.com/go?5454</li>
<li>PHP: Registration and confirmation system - Part 1 - www.dmxzone.com/go?6497</li><li>PHP: Registration and confirmation system - Part 2: Validation Code Image - www.dmxzone.com/go?6509</li><li>PHP: Registration and confirmation system - Part 3 - www.dmxzone.com/go?6540</li><li>PHP: Password Encryption and Retrieval - www.dmxzone.com/go?6559</li>
<li>User-Customised Content - Building content based on user profiles - www.dmxzone.com/go?6587</li><li>Advanced User-Customised Content - www.dmxzone.com/go?6604</li>
<li>MySQL Search - www.dmxzone.com/go?4984</li><li>Advanced Search - www.dmxzone.com/go?5031</li>
<li>PHP User comments system - www.dmxzone.com/go?5990</li></ul>
Also, <b>DMXzone's PHP Tutorial section:</b> www.dmxzone.com/index.asp?TypeId=2&CatId=545

<b>DW MX/MX2004 + PHP/MySQL</b>:
<ul><li>PHP/MySQL and Dreamweaver MX (Video Tutorials) - www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/php_videos.html</li><li>Implementing User Authentication - www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/auth_users.html</li><li>Building a Blog with Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL - www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/articles/php_blog1.html</li><li>Macromedia DW+PHP/MySQL DevNet: www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/php.html</li></ul>

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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
<font size=1>[ Studio MX/MX2004 | PHP/ASP | SQL | XHTML/CSS | XML | Actionscript | Web Accessibility | MX Extensibility ]</font id=size1>

yeh have found a few of them....and was looking at how i could try and learn it in separate bits and try and put it all together..

thanks for the extra ones though...... <img src=../images/fwzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>