PHP Tutorials — Forums

Want to learn how to make your own PHP and MySQL message board? This tutorial will show you pretty much some of the basics of a bog-standard message board.

In this tutorial I will teach administrators of Simple Machines Forums how to hide the boards of inactive members.

Forums are a very hard aspect of a website to monetize. Often, it’s where most of the action takes place and it’s another powerful tool in generating organic traffic through the vast amounts of user generated information that is churned out on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Quite a few sites out there think its fine to place annoying double underlined link scripts all over the forums. I guess that’s fine – whatever rocks your world, even though the majority of users prefer otherwise

A very detailed tutorial that goes through the creation of a community script with PHP and MySQL.