Hello,welcome back to this blog. I know most of us have seen the Infinix Xclub Forum ,its a really great forum and so many people have been looking for a way to make a forum like it!

The Infinix Xclub is built on a froum software called Discuz Forum Software . Discuz is not a very popular forum software but it comes with very great features. Discuz is a MultiLingual, integrated, full-featured, open-source web-platform created by Coders Club for building an Internet community like “Social Network”.

Features Of Discuz:

Main Features
Portal
Forum
Polls
Blogs
Microblogs
Photo Albums
E-Commerce
Personal Spaces
User Wall
Cloud applications
Search
RSS feed

Social features
Post replies/comments
Private messages
Content ratings
Profile visitors
Shares
Favorites
Follows
Greetings
Invitations
Groups
Friends, Black lists

Customization
Powerful administrative control panel
Highly customizable functionality
A lot of skins
A lot of plugins
Flexible permission delegation
Compiling templating system
URL rewriting
Integration with other services used the UCenter API




International usage
Discuz!ML have a Multilingual interface and currently supports the next languages:
Arabic (العربية)
English (English)
French (Français)
Farsi (Persian)
German (Deutsch)
Korean (한국어)
Lao (ພາສາລາວ)
Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
Traditional Chinese (繁體中文)
Polish (Polski)
Russian (Русский)
Spanish (Español)
Thai (ไทย)
Turkish (Türkçe)
Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
Uighur

Any other language can be added. Supported LTR and RTL languages.

Security
Discuz! checked, verified and debugged every time by millions of users. Discuz! code applied security checks for every URL, every page request.
You can automatically block of malicious code and cross-site scripting attacks in posts and signatures.
Every site operation is recorded into the system log, so you can check what was happened at any time.

Now lets get to the step-by-step procedures to set-up Discuz on your website

REQUIREMENTS:
-A host(free or paid,or even localhost)
-A domain(pain or free,or even subdomain)
-Discuz forum script with multi language(Downlaod http://geekslodge.com/create-forum-like-infinix-xclub/ )

With The Required Things At Hand,Lets Move To The Steps!!!

Step 1: Upload and Extract the Discuz script you downloaded to your public_html or to a folder you want it to be.

Step 2: Goto your Cpanel or Freehost account(if it’s a free host) and click MYSQL DATABASE, create a database name,a database username,and a database password,give the database privileged to all.In this case,my database details are:

Database Name: geekslodge_discuz
Database Username: geekslodge_discuz
Database Password: geekslodge

Step 3: Goto the website and it should take you to the installation page, click new discuz x installation, fill in the details of the database you created,choose an admin Username and Password you would use in logging in to your admin backend also input your Email,click next step and wait for installation to complete after installation,click the Click to enter your Discuz X Forum button and see your forum up and ready.

Step 4: Now go to your website Cpanel or FTP and delete the install folder, then goto your website and log in using the Admin Details you picked during the installation process. Click Admin Center and customize and joke around with the stuffs ther, you can also customize your forum to your taste from there.Click on the general tab and Set you website name and other things then save.

I would be writing on how to customize the forum to look exactly like Xclub,stay tuned.

For Images Tutorial and More Help goto www.geekslodge.com