php schoolz

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- Redirect 301 index.php placed in root folder will redirect it to specifed path as below:

‘ <?
Header(“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);
Header(“Location:http://gargasz.info/php-schoolz/”);
?> ‘

or

‘<?php
header(‘location:http://gargasz.info/’);
?>’

Why would you need to use it? For example if you can not set up redirection on IIS or Apache webserver folder for some reason, and you need to redir to something like int this example ‘http://gargasz.info/php-schoolz/’ where CNAME DNS record is not recognizing file structure (the / signs) and DNAME record is not exactly being wildly used by ISP’s.

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- set up password on folder
.htaccess file in folder you want to protect with content inside it:

AuthName “Restricted Area”
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/vol4/gargasz.info/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require valid-user

Then place password file in root folder called
.htpasswd
with usernames and passwords list generated to acceptable format as sample below:

user1:0xvoP6Cq.TIjQ
user2:/UE36QUF3Ama6

You use simple and free .htpasswd and .htaccess generator as this one here:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/
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Bill Bartmann

Cool site, love the info.

8 September 09 at 00:10

Best PHP forum script

PhpBB – free, plenty of templates, I am a big fan of this script. But It gave me SQL error several time. It was down to the cashing with my hosting provider, but seems like latest version is patched alright.

VBulletin – build in community mod, never had any problems with it. Easy to personalize. Really powerfull forum. It is very same script the Boards.ie is running.

If you had a chance to test any of those, please post comment.
Power Board – need opinions
IP.board – need opinions

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WordPress Forum Plugin

Simple: Press (Free WordPress Forum Plugin to Make Your Community)

Time has come to put some additional information into this post.

Simple:Press is a feature rich, completely integrated and fully scalable forum plugin for WordPress. It is fully customizable (packaged with various themes) and is fully scalable no matter what your sites membership number is. Version 4.4.0 for WordPress version 3.1

Also included is a Private Messaging sub-system, the ability to link blog posts with forum topics, the capability to extend the forum display with custom code, a number of template tags for use outside of the forums, extensive online help that explains every option and full language support.

Social Engine Forum Plugin

Just to name one http://seplugins.com/socialengine/forum

Joomla Forum Plugins (mods)

Joo!BB and others read more on http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communication/forum

Invision Power Board

IP.Board

IP.Board, also known as Invision Power Board, IPB or IP Board has been created in 2002, and was, at the beginning a free software. IP Board 1.3 was the latest free version of Invision Power Board, and it served as a base to create a new dedicated project called InvisionFree, that has strictly no affiliation with Invision Power company. In the mean time, IP.Board 2.0 was release in 2004, and the latest major version IP.Board 3.0 was officially announced in the middle of 2009. This 3.0 version was a good way to revamp the default theme and improve with actual technologies and trends the core system of IP.Board.

vBulletin

vBulletin is one of the most famous solution for providing a forum software to communities. The latest major 4.0 version has been released in the end of the year 2009, and was a great opportunity to revamp and organize the vBulletin softwares suite. As you may know, vBulletin company does not only edit a forum software of the same name, but also a CMS and a Blog software. Those two tools could be absolutely used with the vBulletin Forum in order to administrate a whole website with the same software solution.

phpBB

Is this question really useful? phpBB is probably one of the most known modern forum software, built with the magical PHP/MySQL couple. phpBB is hosting about 80% of the global number of Internet communities, and is one of the vector that makes forum so much popular.

By the way, being so popular has also drawbacks: most of the Internet attacks and vulnerabilities were using non-updated phpBB as a backdoor to gain control on websites.

vBulletin vs phpBB

The backend of phpBB isn’t 1% as good as the backend of vBulletin.
vBulletin costs $85 a year – PHPBB is free

vBulletin is more search engine friendly

vBulletin is more user friendly to the site owner

vBulletin is more customizable

vBulletin has great communities supporting it, like vBulletin Webmaster and vBulletin.org

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Abrarderi

You are absolutely right. In it something is and it is excellent idea. I support you.

8 November 11 at 14:44

tutoringsg

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10 November 11 at 01:00

Power of Social Engine Script

As half of social websites are based on this script it deserves few words.
from my experience it is one of the best engines. Fast and flexible.
But for fast and interactive portal would recommend Boonex Dolphin new version 7. Not bad either.

Social engine is PHP script working on SQL database. It’s comming with installer so you can set it up in 5 minutes. All you need is access to your hosting control panel and FTP. Once you download socialengine, probably zipped. Extract it on local PC or on remote server. up to yourself. Upload files, from upload folder. Open www.yourdomainwhereyouhaveuplodedscript.com or folder/subfolder on that domain with/install on the end and just follow the installation. It is so easy as it sounds:

• How do I install SocialEngine?

To install SocialEngine on your server, download SocialEngine from the client area, unzip the file with WinZip, and follow the installation instructions in install.html. Installation only requires that you upload several files via FTP, create a MySQL database, and run the SocialEngine installation script in your browser.

• If I upgrade to a new version, will I lose my customizations or admin panel settings?

This depends on what type of customizations you’ve made. If you’ve simply created new files and linked to them from SocialEngine, it’s unlikely that you will lose any customizations you’ve made. If you’ve edited the core SocialEngine code and you overwrite it with the new files from the upgrade package, you may lose your customizations. To avoid this, you can refer to our changelog.html (provided in the SocialEngine zip) to see which files we’ve changed in each version. If you want to ensure that you don’t lose any changes you’ve made, you can use a file comparison program to compare your files with the newly updated ones. Regardless of the changes you’ve made to your source code, it’s unlikely that you will lose any of your admin panel settings when you upgrade.

• How do I move my installation to a new server?

First, check to see if your new host provides a migration service. If they do not, you can move the installation yourself by exporting your MySQL database using cPanel or PHPMyAdmin, downloading all your SocialEngine files to your computer desktop, importing your MySQL database on your new server, and uploading your SocialEngine files to the new server. Remember to set the proper permissions on the new server (as described in install.html).

• Can SocialEngine be installed in a subdirectory or subdomain? Absolutely! You can install SocialEngine on any location on your server.

more info:

http://www.socialengine.net/faq.php

demo (thats how it looks like straight after installation):

http://www.socialenginedev.com/home.php

The benefit of SE it’s quite flesibale and quick. Comparing to boonex dolphin. It is like Boonex is Windows (easy to use) and SE is GUI based UNIX system (easy but giving you option to customize a lot).

Plus you can get skins so it can look exactly like facebook or myspace. EXACTLY same look and funtionality. You can build up your own facebook.

Sign up for free hosting with free providers (byethost) where you can host your SE script absolutly free, also pick up free subdomain like facebook.isgreat.org. So It will not cost  you a penny.  Good luck and enjoy your online community :).

Bill Bartmann

This site rocks!

2 September 09 at 12:31