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Posted by Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hows about a PHP powered Forum

I think a great track would be on creating a discussion forum with user login, various topics, and indented replies (threads), powered by PHP and MySQL. What do you think? If you don't want to reply just up vote this message.

Jeff

Darryn Smith
Darryn Smith
32,043 Points

I would pay twice for that course/track.

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

I think this would be a great addition to the Laravel course that Hampton Paulk pushed live last month, it's got the perfect base structure and would be far easier to build off instead of a custom made code base.

4 Answers

Tristan Gaebler
Tristan Gaebler
6,204 Points
Tristan Gaebler
Tristan Gaebler
6,204 Points

Would love to see that!

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

OK, now you can up vote me.

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Jeff Busch and Darryn Smith, I have seen several post similar to this in the forum over the last few weeks. While Chris Upjohn is correct in saying that using a PHP framework like Laravel is better, I think that there are a lot of blank spaces left in the courses here between vanilla PHP & MySQL and Laravel. I built a Social Networking site, based on the treebook RoR course here at treehouse, a few months ago as a learning project. I have been thinking about putting up a youtube video or two explaining some of the code and design ideas that went into it, because of amount of requests like yours. Unfortunately I don't have anything right now expect the code. If you want I could throw the code up on my GitHub, but I should warn you that it's all OO PHP and very dense.

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Andrew,

I'd love to see the code. I'm particularly interested in the database design. But I would like to see all of the code, the functional code.

Jeff

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I'd like to see that.

Something else that might interest you that is a free resource is this video from PHPAcademy the other day.

http://youtu.be/0jPMMlGXRlc?list=UUpOIUW62tnJTtpWFABxWZ8g

As they release their video series on building this Facebook like framework, I think you could abstract many techniques and OOP ideas used by PHPAcademy in building this demo site, and combine that with the PHP knowledge that you can get fro Treehouse right now, I bet you'd be able to build your own PHP forum between the two.

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

This is kinda funny because I used bootstrap also so mine looks every similar to theirs. Jeff Busch and Darryn Smith , this looks like it could be very helpful to you both.