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Old 12-14-2007, 01:24 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Jim View Post
Make a planning:

What does a forum need?
- Users
- Subforum
- Topic
- Posts
- BB Code

If you know this you can think of how to write it.
- Start with users (login + register)
- Create subforum list
- Create topic list under the subforum page
- Create posts under topic

These are the basics thoughts behind a forum. It's more easy than you would think. :)
Yea, but then it doesn't end there.
For example; users..
You need to decide what features users should have, for example users online, user groups, user profiles, etc..

Also, the hardest thing I can think of, is the template system.
I would want a different template for each view.
For example, a template for the postbit, a template for the navbar, a template for the forum index, a template for the thread view, a template for the topic view.

And so on..
And that's difficult! xD
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