Forum/plugin for forum

[hsorum95]

Hi, i’m hosting a forum for me and my friends(at least trying to do so) and i have a couple of questions for you guys.

I want this to be strictly for users i want on the site, so i have created a login page, members page, and a couple of others. I now wonder, how to create a forum where i can use this session to make sure only users i have added to the DB to see anything on this forum. After all this info here a my Q’s:

• Do you have a tut. where i can learn how to make this forum?
• Is there an plugin that allows me to do just this?
• How secure is a simple login in php?

[Laffin]

Most of your requirements already handled by forum software. So if your building your own, than you should provide code where you are having problems with as well as a description of the problem

[hsorum95]

But in what type of software? that was a part of the question

[jSherz]

If you’re concerned about security in your code, The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has some very good articles on - many specifically related to PHP code.

In terms of limiting certain users to certain parts of your site, you could add permissions to the post record in the database:

E.g. an allowed_users field that contains something similar to this:

Dave,Mark,Simon

Then check those values on the page:

[php]$result = mysql_query(‘SELECT * FROM posts WHERE posts.id=12345’);
$post = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$allowed_users = explode(’,’, $post[‘allowed_users’]);

if(in_array($_SESSION[‘user’], $allowed_users)) {
// Allowed access
} else {
// Not allowed access
}[/php]