How are forums build?

What languages are used to build a forum?

I think that PHP and MySQL are, but Im not sure. Can someone tell me? Just curious. Thanks

I built some forums for one of my web projects a couple months ago. You really need to sit down and find out what kind of features you would like in a forum.

For instance Categories (Parent Forums), Sub Categories (sub Forums), then Topics and Replies. Once you figure out your table structure everything else should come into play correctly.

Well the Envato forums are Ruby on Rails with MySQL (I think).

Well the Envato forums are Ruby on Rails with MySQL (I think).

They sure are! With some JavaScript too .

To answer the original question, you can use just about anything. PHP is the most common programming language used.

At work, we use PHP /MySQL to build our forums

(I work for vBulletin )

People assume that forums are always platform downloads such as Simple Machines or phpBB.

As these are common, some people still hand code forums. GASP

I’d say PHP with MySQL is the most common, but there’s a range of ways you could do it. I think that PHP would probably be one of the easier languages to do it in though, but maybe that’s because I know PHP the best.

Forums are not hard to build. Making them scale-able and flex-able is the difficult and arduous task.

• Threads Row
• Replies Row

IF you need users, obviously add a users row.

The replies row will lock the respective replies to the thread it is assigned to. The difficult part is adding categories, sub categories, and forum groups.

Cheers.