Building a Forum with Dreamweaver – Part 1: Planning the Forum
May 20th, 2006 by Posted in Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Products
Planning the Forum
In this tutorial, you will use Dreamweaver 8 and ImpAKT to build a forum application which will allow users to:
- View a list of discussion topics
- Read the messages associated to each topic
- Register an account with the forum, and upload a profile photo
- Login and logout
- Post a new message in any topic
- Reply to other messages
- Subscribe to a discussion thread (a chain of messages that are replies to an initial message)
- Receive e-mail notifications when a new message is posted in a thread they have subscribed to
Figure 1. An example of what the finished forum will look like
Before you start building the forum, please make sure that:
- You have a running database server and web server with PHP language support
- You have installed the required software: Dreamweaver and ImpAKT
- You have correctly defined a Dreamweaver site with a PHP_MySQL testing server
- You have set up the database provided with this tutorial and have created a connection to it
If you don’t satisfy one or more of the requirements from this checklist, follow the corresponding section for detailed instructions.
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