Hello,
I have not posted in a long time. I have been very busy with many new developments in my life.
One - marriage
Two - graduate school
Three- I decided to bulk down and take programming courses at my university
I do not know if anyone remembers, but I am wanting to build a storytelling Mush/Mud type game. I also want to build a community.
I have put up a temporary website and forum site, until I figure out how all this works. One of my issues is downloading phpbb3 3.7 on my ubuntu 10.4. When I go to run the program, it extracts and opens individual files. Therefore, I can't run it.
Can someone assist me here?
I also like to ask if Joomla would be a good web building program to build my website and tag it to my server in the future? Or would you recommend another program to build my website after I learn programming? I understand I could possibly write it all myself when i am finished, but I do not see the point in making extra work for myself; if there is software/program base already written that i could use to make building my site a little easier.
Coding, me, and phpbb
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Jackolantern
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Re: Coding, me, and phpbb
The Smarty Template Engine may help you out. Joomla is a content management system first, meaning its primary goal is to easily allow non-tech oriented people to add new text to existing websites, among other tasks. Smarty on the other hand is designed to keep PHP and JS code separate from the web design, allowing you to get existing templates that are designed to be filled with code. I have never used it, but I looked into quite a bit not too long ago and it seemed quite neat.
The indelible lord of tl;dr
Re: Coding, me, and phpbb
How about running phpbb3 software on my computer, Ubuntu 10.4?
Does the software not run unless linked to a web page/online? I was under the impression that I could run it as a building tool for my forums then import/attach files whenever I have a server to put it on. Perhaps this is a very silly and basic question, I should understand.
thank you for your help.
Does the software not run unless linked to a web page/online? I was under the impression that I could run it as a building tool for my forums then import/attach files whenever I have a server to put it on. Perhaps this is a very silly and basic question, I should understand.
thank you for your help.
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Jackolantern
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Re: Coding, me, and phpbb
Sorry, but I have next-to-no experience with Ubunutu. 
The indelible lord of tl;dr
Re: Coding, me, and phpbb
I have no experience with Ubuntu either, but I can answer questions about Joomla. Joomla has phpBB bridge extensions that you can use to combine the two; Check out rockettheme.com, and their extension RokBridge. Also, if all you want is their template parser, there are tons of PHP frameworks with included template parsing libraries.
Joomla (version 1.5, haven't tested 1.6 yet) as a CMS is a bit bloated, and can really slow a site down unless you make sure to disable all the extra mootools crap and some of the unneeded components, especially if you're on a shared server (who actually uses the Polls component anymore!?). If all you're wanting is a simple site to provide updates, news and the like, Joomla is a good choice. So are Drupal or Wordpress. Those are the big three, and none of them have steep learning curves, even if you don't know anything about programming.
If you want to spend a little money there's also Expression Engine, and tons of other commercial CMS's. Like I said if you're wanting to keep it simple you might look for a CMS with a smaller footprint than those I mentioned. Upon googling "lightweight CMS," I came across a nice list of lightweight and promising looking software: http://webdesignledger.com/tools/10-sim ... -solutions
Most of these will be easy to set up and learn.
Hope this helped!
Joomla (version 1.5, haven't tested 1.6 yet) as a CMS is a bit bloated, and can really slow a site down unless you make sure to disable all the extra mootools crap and some of the unneeded components, especially if you're on a shared server (who actually uses the Polls component anymore!?). If all you're wanting is a simple site to provide updates, news and the like, Joomla is a good choice. So are Drupal or Wordpress. Those are the big three, and none of them have steep learning curves, even if you don't know anything about programming.
If you want to spend a little money there's also Expression Engine, and tons of other commercial CMS's. Like I said if you're wanting to keep it simple you might look for a CMS with a smaller footprint than those I mentioned. Upon googling "lightweight CMS," I came across a nice list of lightweight and promising looking software: http://webdesignledger.com/tools/10-sim ... -solutions
Most of these will be easy to set up and learn.
Hope this helped!
w00t
Re: Coding, me, and phpbb
Oh btw, phpBB is probably not running because it requires server software (LAMP) to be installed for you to test in localhost. It does not run standalone.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
Read that, set it all up, and then unzip the phpBB packages in your root HTML folder, (I'm not sure what it's called in Ubuntu, in my XAMPP windows installation it's called "htdocs"). You should then be able to navigate to localhost/(name of phpBB extracted folder here) in a browser, and set everything up. I haven't played with phpBB in a long time, but I think that's how it should work. You may have to navigate to some other part like localhost/phpBB/install or something like that to set up the db.
I would also suggest installing something to manage mySQL, like phpmyadmin. Again I have no experience in Ubuntu, just trying to be helpful!
I hope I wasn't way off base here, I am assuming you were trying to run phpBB as a standalone program. Anyway, I hope this helped! If not there should be some tutorials I can find for you to help you get the server stuff up and running.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
Read that, set it all up, and then unzip the phpBB packages in your root HTML folder, (I'm not sure what it's called in Ubuntu, in my XAMPP windows installation it's called "htdocs"). You should then be able to navigate to localhost/(name of phpBB extracted folder here) in a browser, and set everything up. I haven't played with phpBB in a long time, but I think that's how it should work. You may have to navigate to some other part like localhost/phpBB/install or something like that to set up the db.
I would also suggest installing something to manage mySQL, like phpmyadmin. Again I have no experience in Ubuntu, just trying to be helpful!
I hope I wasn't way off base here, I am assuming you were trying to run phpBB as a standalone program. Anyway, I hope this helped! If not there should be some tutorials I can find for you to help you get the server stuff up and running.
w00t