Adding a forum to my site

[ala9ngs]

I want to add a forum to a web site, but am unsure how to do this. How do they work, and what is needed for this to work. What is the first step i should be doing to do this? I have had a look at source code on the net and i understand that I need a database also. Can I just use Access or would you advise against it? Any information or help would be great.

Many Thanks

 

[giadich]

There are prebuilt forums that you can use or if you want the ability to customize it to your site, you might want to build your own. It's not that hard to create one.

This type of forum is easiest to buid in my opinion. Of course the more features you add the more complicate it will get.

If you can read ASP code, there was a good example on how to build one on http://www.asp101.com.

 

[ala9ngs]

Thanks for this Brian. If I was to add a prebuilt forum to my ASP project, would I need anything else? Should I just be able to run it and edit it within Visual Studio?

 

[giadich]

All instructions you need should be in the docs that come with the forum (sql server, access, mysql....). Yep, you should be able to install it and run it right out of the box with very few modifications. And if you dig into it, you can edit it to your taste as well.