need help with blog code

[tassie]

I am starting a project in my web design class for and we have to find and create code for a client website. We are struggling to figure out how to create a simple forum/blog section. We're using Microsoft Frontpage 2003.

Does anyone know where we can find a base code for a forum/blog? We need something to start with so we can fill in the details ourselves.

thanks!

[Snookerman]

phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) is great and free, vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/) is better but costs some.

Good luck!

[traq]

you're going to have a lot of trouble making or modifying a blog or forum using FrontPage. It is not manual-code friendly - it changes stuff you write, both when saving the file and when publishing. I would highly recommend using a text editor, like Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm).

Both phpbb and vBulletin use web-based admin interfaces, though, so you wouldn't use FP anyway.

You might also look at Simple PHPblog (http://www.simplephpblog.com/index.php), it uses a flat text file instead of a database, so you don't have to worry about learning MySQL right away.