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taoquananh · #1 06-16-2010, 03:26 AM

Hello everyone,

Recently I agreed to build a forum for my organization. But to be honest I know nothing about forum of web development!

I have general knowledge about computers so I can google it, but using help in this page is more valuable. So would anyone give me any info or webpages/links that have basic ideas about forum building? (especially vB 4.0 since I already have one) Something like "what is..." and "how to.." are great, too.

Any help is really appreciated.

ChopSuey · #2 06-16-2010, 07:30 AM

Education Is The Key To Success

taoquananh · #3 06-17-2010, 02:12 AM

Thank you

that really helps.. but i feel like I need to know about coding in v4. Those thread in the links you gave me only contains "how to" with copy/paste codes

is there any where i can learn the basic of coding? what is the language used for those code?

Reycer · #4 06-17-2010, 02:34 AM

Have you read the manual yet? It's a pretty good place to start

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/

taoquananh · #5 06-17-2010, 04:05 AM

Yes it was !! But I was reading through it for a while, and seems like it is made for user that already know about forum building

so there are lots of things i don't really understand

Like this one "Before installing vBulletin you need to have PHP and MySQL and have created a database within the MySQL engine to hold vBulletin's data"

I downloaded PHP for Windows but when it comes to MySQL I'm a little confused. There're bunch of downloads like MySQL Community Server, MySQL Cluster, My SQL Proxy, Connector.. now what should I choose??

ChopSuey · #6 06-17-2010, 05:55 AM

Of course Community Server

borbole · #7 06-18-2010, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by taoquananh

Yes it was !! But I was reading through it for a while, and seems like it is made for user that already know about forum building

so there are lots of things i don't really understand

Like this one "Before installing vBulletin you need to have PHP and MySQL and have created a database within the MySQL engine to hold vBulletin's data"

I downloaded PHP for Windows but when it comes to MySQL I'm a little confused. There're bunch of downloads like MySQL Community Server, MySQL Cluster, My SQL Proxy, Connector.. now what should I choose??

Have you found a host? If not start looking for one that has the latest versions of php and mysql. Then go to the Mysql Area at the cp and create there a database and enter its details at the config.php file when installing vb.

Let us know if you will have more questions.

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