Building a forum is easy, and I don't mean that in a condescending way. I mean the actual architecture of a forum is very simple. It can actually be condensed down into the form of a blog like WordPress for example.
What I mean by this is that in the context of a blog, you have posts and the equivalent of that in the context of a forum is a topic (or thread as it's sometimes called). Blog posts then might have comments on it and the equivalent of that in the context of forums are posts (or replies etc).
I'm not suggesting you use WordPress by the way. I'm just drawing on the similarities between blogs and forums.
The first thing to do is to create a project and work on setting up users so you can log in. Once you've down that, you'll want to setup an admin area (like the Admin Control Panel in phpBB) that lets you create and delete forums.
Then you'll need to work on functionality for letting users create topics and later on create posts inside of topics. I wouldn't worry about permissions until further on down the line because that will complicate things during the most important part (creating content).
As I said already, it's not hard; it'll just take a while to do. Perhaps trying looking at frameworks like Symfony (which phpBB uses) or you can supercharge your process and use Laravel (which also uses Symfony) but is a complete development kit with loads of helpful utilities to speed up your workflow.
What I mean by this is that in the context of a blog, you have posts and the equivalent of that in the context of a forum is a topic (or thread as it's sometimes called). Blog posts then might have comments on it and the equivalent of that in the context of forums are posts (or replies etc).
I'm not suggesting you use WordPress by the way. I'm just drawing on the similarities between blogs and forums.
The first thing to do is to create a project and work on setting up users so you can log in. Once you've down that, you'll want to setup an admin area (like the Admin Control Panel in phpBB) that lets you create and delete forums.
Then you'll need to work on functionality for letting users create topics and later on create posts inside of topics. I wouldn't worry about permissions until further on down the line because that will complicate things during the most important part (creating content).
As I said already, it's not hard; it'll just take a while to do. Perhaps trying looking at frameworks like Symfony (which phpBB uses) or you can supercharge your process and use Laravel (which also uses Symfony) but is a complete development kit with loads of helpful utilities to speed up your workflow.
Statistics: Posted by danieltj — Mon Jul 08, 2024 2:33 pm