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Small private forum for a website
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 3:14 am
by Mary Abigail
Hello everyone
can anyone tell me if that's possible to implement a small private forum for registered users from a website?
the idea is for registered users to communicate with each other and also sell stuff, etc...
I want it to have admins and moderation as well. I have thought of phpBB or similar, but if WWB can do it, i would prefer that way.
thanks in advance!
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:41 am
by wwonderfull
phpbb is advanced enough for a forum some prefer modern lightweight forum like
flarum. But wwb itself cannot create a forum because that is a whole server sided coding thing with database connection for registering users creating threads, administration and others. phpbb has a lot of themes also can be customized and has a lot of extensions.
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extensions-36
For a forum it takes a hefty amount of storage and well optimized server and bandwidth depending on a group of people and their posting texting, media and others. I would say phpbb would be a better choice for administration and featureful.
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:05 pm
by Mary Abigail
wwonderfull wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:41 am
phpbb is advanced enough for a forum some prefer modern lightweight forum like
flarum. But wwb itself cannot create a forum because that is a whole server sided coding thing with database connection for registering users creating threads, administration and others. phpbb has a lot of themes also can be customized and has a lot of extensions.
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extensions-36
For a forum it takes a hefty amount of storage and well optimized server and bandwidth depending on a group of people and their posting texting, media and others. I would say phpbb would be a better choice for administration and featureful.
Thank you wwonderfull
that was my thought!
I've heard of Flarum, but never used it before. I'm going to have a look!
thank u
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:08 am
by wwonderfull
Mary Abigail wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:05 pm
wwonderfull wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:41 am
phpbb is advanced enough for a forum some prefer modern lightweight forum like
flarum. But wwb itself cannot create a forum because that is a whole server sided coding thing with database connection for registering users creating threads, administration and others. phpbb has a lot of themes also can be customized and has a lot of extensions.
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extensions-36
For a forum it takes a hefty amount of storage and well optimized server and bandwidth depending on a group of people and their posting texting, media and others. I would say phpbb would be a better choice for administration and featureful.
Thank you wwonderfull
that was my thought!
I've heard of Flarum, but never used it before. I'm going to have a look!
thank u
Not just flarum there are many more modern forums you can checkout although phpbb prefered.
https://answer.apache.org/
https://join-lemmy.org/
https://www.talkyard.io/
https://forem.com/
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2025 6:29 pm
by Mary Abigail
Thank you so much @wwonderfull
this is really handy, sending good vibes back!
Mary
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:02 am
by alan_sh
Mary,
Assuming your hosting service allows it, you can embed a forum inside your web page to make it look more 'integrated'.
Alan
[Away on holiday, so I can't give you the exact code yet].
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 4:35 pm
by onlye
PHP Jabbers has a simple Forum Script. There scripts embed nicely in Wizzy pages. All their scripts have moved to free open source. I don't have personal experience with this script but use several others in customer sites.
https://www.phpjabbers.com/php-forum-script/
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 7:19 pm
by Mary Abigail
Hi all
thank you for your recommendations
@alan_sh i'm on a reseller account (WHM/cPanel), i do have Softaculous access, maybe that's what you are recommending me!?
i also need to change the main language of the forum to portuguese
@onlye
i have downloaded that script, but haven't tested it yet, dont know if i can change the main language (as my customer is portuguese)
have a nice weekend, sending good vibes
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 8:00 pm
by crispy68
Yes you can change the language of their scripts within the script once installed.
Re: Small private forum for a website
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:08 am
by Mary Abigail
crispy68 wrote: Fri Apr 04, 2025 8:00 pm
Yes you can change the language of their scripts within the script once installed.
Thank you crispy
