Created By: Robert Nduati , Email: robertnduati.karanja@gmail.com
About
Just a Forum helps you set up a knowledge base for your users where they can share what they know about your products or site with each other. This script helps you quickly set up a forum that will help you save on the cost and time for support.
Features:
- Quick one step installation
- Easy to translate to any language since all the text is in one file
- Easy to redesign since the HTML/CSS is separated from the PHP and is built using the twitter bootstrap
- Sign Up with email verification to prevent spam
- User profiles where they can upload their photos and Bios
- Admin can ban users, delete and edit post and lock posts
- Threads are categorized into forums
- By making changes to just one file you can configure this script to use your user management system
Installation:
- Unzip the package
- Open the file /php/config.php with a text editor and put in the details for your server
- Navigate to the script install.php using your browser
- A user account will be created for you. You can change the account later. For the first time sign in with the following credetials:
Email: The one you set for the webmaster in the file /php/config.php
Password: admin
- Delete the files install.php, upgrade.php
- Sign in and click on the Manage Forums link
- Create at least one forum and you are good to go
Upgraging:
If you are upgrading from a previous version:
- Unzip the package
- Open the file /php/config.php with a text editor and put in the details for your server
- Navigate to the script upgrade.php using your browser
- Delete the files install.php, upgrade.php
- And you are done
Translating the script:
To translate this script from English to any other language:
- Open the file /str/strings.xml using a text editor
- You will find all the text that appears on all the page there. Simply translate them one by one
Redesign the script's look:
All the HTML that is used in the script is in the folder "html" and the CSS is in the folder "css"
The most important file is /html/base.html
Configure the script to use your user management system:
Simply open the file /php/users_api.php with a text editor
For every function in there change it to draw information from your current system