How to create a forum from scratch ?

[Joel_Jantsen]

As the title says I would like to create a new forum and don't know where to start.Yes I have web development experience but never coded a forum.I know there a lot of Api's/framework's available but I'm too lazy to google myself since I can have better opinions from experienced guys here.Please list down what framework/language/algorithms I can use to build a strong forum.The forum has to be strong against any brute force or Sql injections.Thanks!

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[mexxer-2]

Eh why not use SMF like bitcointalk currently does? Many other forum "themes" to choose from if you buy hosting+domain at a popular site

[Joel_Jantsen]

Eh why not use SMF like bitcointalk currently does? Many other forum "themes" to choose from if you buy hosting+domain at a popular site

Yeah that's also a good option.However I'm not very sure if I can alter or modify a lot of things like sorting or searching in a specific order or for example one IP one account stuff.I'm already going through the SMF as I type.Thanks !

[mexxer-2]

Yeah that's also a good option.However I'm not very sure if I can alter or modify a lot of things like sorting or searching in a specific order or for example one IP one account stuff.I'm already going through the SMF as I type.Thanks !

Well theymos did, if you're a good web developer, so can you

[cloverme]

You probably don't want to start from scratch unless you're dead set on providing new core functionality that other forums don't offer either natively or with mods/add-ons.

https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1
http://mvcforum.codeplex.com/
https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb

[enhu]

try mybb script or xenforo. I recommend xenforo.

I have created a forum from the past and still exist up to now, I sold one of my forum and the other still is active. I paid a lot for the contents of it but if you don't want to pay for the contents, you may wanna try postloop.com. It works if there are users there who would be interested, i've seen some crypto forum on postloop years ago. maybe you can try there as well.

[Bitcoin_Delivery]

If you google a little bit you can find lots of solutions ready to go...you can also create a website that include opiossibility to develop a chat/forum in it, also without knowing about code...
Google have your answer!

[Joel_Jantsen]

Thanks a lot for your answers .I think I will be using either SMF or myBB .Really appreciate the help .Thanks locking the thread!

[Robertt]

Xenforo is actually pretty good, very easy to customise.
If not that, MyBB as most of the big forums use it.

[Jet Cash]

Well the big forums use vbulletin, but you have to pay for it. I've used SMF, and that's good and easy to customise. But you say you are too lazy to Google, so, unless you change, your forum wont get off the ground imho.