Custom forum software

[Shawn]

Have you ever wanted to create your own forum software?

 

If I had the know-how, I'd love to create software. It would most likely be free software because I don't want to hassle making it into a business.

 

How about everyone else?

[AWS]

When I built my first website I coded it by hand. No fancy HTML editors. Good old Notepad. Since I had started to code a dynamic site in ASP so users could comment on the articles I heard Micrsoft had a server extension to make things easier. They were called Frontpage extensions. There was an extension to create a guestbook. I hacked it to turn it into a forum. Threaded replys all using the guestbook extension.

 

Later I found wwwthreads. It was written in perl so I had to familiarize myself with it. I installed it and hacked up an import script to import the posts. The site had close to 100,000 posts at the time. Soon after I found UBB. I installed it and again hacked up an import script to import the posts. This time the site had almost a million posts. The import script was used as a base to import from other software packages later on. I had built it modular so it was easy to add a module for other software.

 

In any case to answer. I did it once. It was a lot of work and I would not want to do it again.

 

You have to ask yourself why you would not invent the wheel when it's already there for you.

[Shawn]

My first site was made with the WebTV page builder. My second website was on Tripod-Lycos. Remember that? LOL Dreambook all that stuff haha

 

Then, I found Freepgs.com and started doing HTML.

 

Wanted to code a Php/Mysql forum but never sat down and learned it.

[AWS]

Yep I remeber those. Weird how much eveything advanced.

[capnsquarepants]

I am actually writing a forum script, mostly as an exercise for my brain, but perhaps for a community that I might never launch.