[Sir_CnC]

I'm going to get back into making my website over the holidays again but starting all over. I plan to make a graphics site where you can sign up onto the website/forum, be able to make Graphic Tutorials and upload graphics to the website for everyone to use. I was wondering what type of coding I'll need to know. I'll be up to learning pretty much any, just need to know what to do. I know that for the website and forum to have the same login, you'll need to just link the database as one so when they sign up on one, it goes to both. The things I'm struggling with is making a login/registration page, being able to upload content and being able for users to make like a new page (Possibly just going to do this one on my own).

I am up to learning anything, at the moment all I know is a full understanding of HTML and CSS code, which is why I'm starting again as my last site was pretty basic to me.

Any kind of help would be appreciated!

[Kyou]

So you're making a forum or is it just a website that has a forum on it? Like a board. You're already on the right track with CSS and HTML. Try learning PHP as well.

[Sir_CnC]

So you're making a forum or is it just a website that has a forum on it? Like a board. You're already on the right track with CSS and HTML. Try learning PHP as well.

It'll be a MyBB forum linked to the website, I'll give PHP a shot and see what I can learn from that!

[Gogeta]

Use PHP, HTML, CSS and some Java maybe. Good luck.

[Wonders]

I can't really help, but I'd just like to say that it sounds like an awesome idea and good luck with it!

[Sir_CnC]

Use PHP, HTML, CSS and some Java maybe. Good luck.

Was thinking about Java but I don't know a lot on what you can do with it. I'll also look into it!

I can't really help, but I'd just like to say that it sounds like an awesome idea and good luck with it!

Thanks! I'll hopefully post progress in the future.

[Dean Winchester]

I suggest you learn basic Html, CSS & php. If you want to make a graphics forum then these skills will surely help.

[Prince]

As Jimmy said you need to know HTML CSS and PHP, also you'll have to learn how to implement your PHP, also as you'll be linking two websites together, your going to need to check the fields in your database in order for the website to gather that information, it shouldn't be to hard, just make sure that when you setup MyBB you set it the password hashing to MD5 otherwise you'll have problems logging in on your end.

For the actual website I recommend using the Twitter Bootstrap as it'll just make your life 20x easier: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Good luck with this mate, also you MUST make sure that your database connections are encrypted, and their isn't any vulnerabilities in the code.

[Sir_CnC]

As Jimmy said you need to know HTML CSS and PHP, also you'll have to learn how to implement your PHP, also as you'll be linking two websites together, your going to need to check the fields in your database in order for the website to gather that information, it shouldn't be to hard, just make sure that when you setup MyBB you set it the password hashing to MD5 otherwise you'll have problems logging in on your end.

For the actual website I recommend using the Twitter Bootstrap as it'll just make your life 20x easier: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Good luck with this mate, also you MUST make sure that your database connections are encrypted, and their isn't any vulnerabilities in the code.

Thanks for that link! Shall hopefully be useful for me!
As for encryption and vulnerabilities, that's on my list of to do things before release, make sure it has good encryption and look up ways on finding vulnerabilities inside of my website or getting some people to check over it for me! So far I can only check for SQLi as that's all I know how to do.

[Prince]

Thanks for that link! Shall hopefully be useful for me!
As for encryption and vulnerabilities, that's on my list of to do things before release, make sure it has good encryption and look up ways on finding vulnerabilities inside of my website or getting some people to check over it for me! So far I can only check for SQLi as that's all I know how to do.

That's really the main thing, check input boxes, only allow registration on the forum so that's 1 less vulnerability.

The hardest part IMO, will be creating the script that takes what X user inputs and then posts it on the forum, normally if I start coding a script I'd use snippets but I don't believe theirs anything like this : P