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Programming a Forum

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question by ellievr | Easy

Could anyone please please help me, i made a photography website for a friend and he needs a forum / blog on it where he can post up daily comments about his travels. But i'm not sure how to do it. Im just a beginner in the programming world.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated

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Re: Programming a Forum

answer by Srirangan

Why don't you use a open source free blogging software - Wordpress. The website is: http://wordpress.org/

I'm sure it will fill your friend's blogging needs.

- Sri

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by ellievr

I tried that, but it takes over the whole site. :-/ thing is i've already got an existing website, and in the links menu i want a 'blog' link, which links to the seperate blog page...(dunno if im making any sense here...) Is this at all possible?

Mainly what he wants is to keep an online dairy. Just posting up a few comments every now and then and then people can leave comments on it. can i ask an extremely stupid question...do i need a database for this to be able or can i use javascript to directly display the comments...sorry, like i said im just a beginner

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by Srirangan

The way to overcome this is to install the blog in a sub directory - domain/blog and link it through the main site.

Of course you can edit the themes of the blog so that it matches with the rest of the site. Integration can be done, but you will need to work at it.

- Sri

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by Srirangan

And yes, you will need a database. You will most probably also required a server side scripting language such as PHP enabled on your web host.

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by ellievr

thanks so much for your help, really appreciate it. Here goes!!

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by ellievr

just one last question, got the wordpress blog to work, but having difficulty changing the top logo. want to put his photography logo at the top to make it look like the rest of the site

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by Srirangan

This from the Wordpress Docs: http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Headers

..has it all. =)

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by ellievr

thanks so much for your help! i got it working!! could i ask you one more question, you can tell me to bugger of if you want to! hehehe

i just need the image which i put in now, to link back to the home page. i've done what it says on the link you gave me but nothing seems to be happening...doh!

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by ellievr

i meant the header img...but you probably knew that...just making sure...

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reply by ellievr

i pasted this into my header.php file like they say on the website;

<div id="header" onclick="location.href='http://www.randomphotographer.co.uk/';" style="cursor: pointer;">

but it's not working

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Re: Programming a Forum

reply by Srirangan

Hmm.. why aren't you using a regular <a href=''></a> link?

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