Is PHP any good?

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I get a free licence with my web hosting and fancied putting up a mini forum for some of the motox guys. Also found something called Yabb which is open source and also looks pretty decent. Free is good :embarrassed:

Anyone any experience with setting it up and customising to fit the rest of the site?
 
PHP is a programming language for the web.
It looks a lot like perl (if that means anything to you) and not too far from C.

See:
http://www.php.net/

It is VERY good for writing web applications. Many are written with it.

I could go on the positive rant here, but wont. Lets just say I think it does the business.
 
phpbb is a buletin board written in PHP.

From memory it is pretty full featured. Used to use it in previous job/life for information sharing.
 
Thanks, I'll give it a go :thinking:
 
PhpBB is excellent - it is a great forum system and great fun to play with and a good way to learn some of the basics of php.
 
Loads of PHP Forums here
punbb is a free and lightweight forum you could look if your hosting it not too hot.
 
the original TPF started on phpBB, but man did it suck after a while, we needed more of everything so had to move up to VB, but for starting out, its more than enough! Doddy old bean im on msn if you want any help
 
Sorry to take this slightly off topic, but what is the big bonus of moving to vbulletin Matty? I have yet to find much that phpbb2 can't do with some modding etc.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
Sorry to take this slightly off topic, but what is the big bonus of moving to vbulletin Matty? I have yet to find much that phpbb2 can't do with some modding etc.
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we found that features, looks, function and security and support were all much more desirable from VB, and we havent looked back!
 
Aye vBulletin is in its own league really. phpBB is good, quite good....especially for something that's free IMO.

LIke matty says, on MSN if you need help mate. :)
 
ta folks, got a basic one set up already, just need to customise it now :thinking:
 
wahhheeeeyyyyyy, found the ban hammer :D
 
PHP as a programing language is superb and there in nothing it won't do for a web application.

Even though some of it's basic syntax structure is taken from C. It is no where near as difficult. It has the most extensive command set I have ever come across which is perfect for beginners.

I use it every day at work and love it :thumbs:
 
I think the main problem with phpbb is that it's too easy to hack for somebody with the knowledge and the inclination. SMF is a nice alternative.
 
Yes m8 that's it.

I'm a layman myself dod so I have no idea. Setting up a couple of joomla sites recently, I wanted to incorporate an existing forum into one and while reading up on how to do it I kept coming across references to how insecure phpbb was.

That said the forum is phpbb and in the end it turned out to be much easier just to keep it that way and seperate than to try to convert/import everything into an integrated forum in Joomla.
 
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