How to make a forum like this?

[just_a_guy]

What software was used to make this forum?

How hard is it to learn to use for someone that doesn't code?

Where would I go to get it and what does it cost?

[Uranium-235]

I think YABB is free. It's all included. At the very bottom of the page is the link to the webstie ( http://yabb.xnull.com ). You don't need to code, all the source is free. Although I reccomend PHPBB (FREE Also) ( http://www.phpbb.com )

[MIK3]

I know that the YA in YABB stands for Yet Another but what does the PHP in PHPBB stand for? j/w?

[Uranium-235]

PHP is a scripting language in itself ( http://www.php.net ) it's my main language, I mean, my random image in my sig is actually a link to a php script I made that does a binary load of the random image off the server.

[MIK3]

oh so it doesnt stand for anything? didnt know that...and might i add that that random image php script is a very wise thing to do...can the cylce hold infinite amount of pics or is it limited to a certain #?

[Uranium-235]

as far as I know, it has no limit, but if theirs like thousands of images it might take a while to load the way it works (loads the directory into an array, and selects a random number in the array varable $images[<random number>];

the loading into the array might tke a while if theirs lots of images.

The script will require a server that has PHP installed. And you will have to know how to operate it, if you have a server with php installed, I can post the source code here.

[MIK3]

oh no...its ok...i dont wanna steal ur idea...thanks though! SPAMYeah i was kinda leaning towards some kinda array code for the images to cycle...neat....definatlely neat! SPAM;D

[Uranium-235]

ok, yabb refuses to parse the source correctly. so here's the link to the source...

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~extreme/scripts/randIMG/?showsource=true

[MIK3]

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SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM Thanks for the code...i saved it in Notepad for future reference, thx! SPAM;)

[Uranium-235]

np :)

[TheRogue]

PHP stands for Personal home page: Hypertext Preprocessor.. its a strange acronym like GNU (GNUs Not Unix)

YABB was made in Perl, a C++ based scripting language mainly used in linux, C++ is the main programming language on nearly all platforms, its a medium language, hard(ish) to get into

PHP is a high level scripting language, my personal favourite now as well since i started in it a few weeks ago, its quite easy to pickup, you need a webhost which supports PHP, to test and learn ive installed apache, php and mysql on my pc so its faster and easier

[MIK3]

thanks for the info Rougue...helped me alot! SPAM ;) SPAMI wonder if the creator of this thread is taking any knowledge w/him or even read the rest of these responds to his own post! SPAMOh well...at least we know that we helped him the best that we can..and i probably got more info out of the whole ordeal! lol!