how can i create forum using javascript and html?

Question

hi everyone... im a beginner in programming.. i need to create a forum based module but i dont have no more idea to create this using html, javascript and css

also if anybody know the source code or url to view that source code of that forum means inform it to me

Answer 1

You'll need more than just that to effectively create a forum. I haven't made a forum but here is where I see some problems:

1) Javascript is client side code. You can use it for validation and interacting with a server/servlet. The interactions can request more data from the server or they can provide updates to a servlet. They won't actually store the data directly.

2) HTML is the page language. On the server side, you'll generate this dynamically for the end users.

3) CSS is simply for formatting your HTML output.

What you need is some sort of servlet that runs on the server to manage writing data to a filesystem or a database. Your servlet (same one or a separate one) will then handle page request for displaying the forum information back to the end user.

Rather than writing your own forum, why not check out some of the existing open source projects that have attempted to do the same thing. Even if you decide to go another route, at least you can learn from those projects on how to setup your own.

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I'm sure there will be plenty of other open source projects out there but a good place to check is SourceForge.net. I've included a link to the search page for "forum". Most of the projects will tend to have a C/C++, Java, PHP, or other open languages but occasionally you'll find some Visual Basic, C#, or other Microsoft languages.