Can someone help me out. What is the possibility of having chat rooms and forum activated on my site. pls reply as soon as possile. Thnx

As in is it possible or if you can do it yourself or you want someone to do it for you?

Be more specific.

Wia is the site first?

try yahoo ping box

@yawatide I dont mind if sum1 can put me tru or get it done for me. Its a feature my client wants. Pls help as diz first project ever.

Okay, so I take it you have a site and need these features installed.

What you would need to do, without anyone holding your hands, so to speak, is to go to your "fantastico" section of your cpanel (some might have it under "scripts" or some other name. worse case, just click every single option that your host has till you find it ), look for what you want to install, click it, specify a folder where you want the stuff to go, let the scripts handle the rest and that should pretty much do it.

Let us know how it goes.

Good luck!

@yawatide

thanks
My host is utiware.net, i dont tink they have the fantastico stuff. I can locate it after log-in into my a/c

okay, assuming they don't have it, all isn't lost. Having said that, do bear in mind that the feature goes by different names - Scripting and add-ons, installcentral, etc. Just ask your web host, if you haven't already, to see if they offer such a feature. Utiware's site is taking forever to load so I couldn't visit it to make my own enquiries.

You can always install such (open source) programs yourself though. It involves, downloading a zip file, uncompressing in ur cpanel, pulling the app up in ur browser and following instructions, hopefully installing successfully at the end.

I haven't dealt with chat rooms before but I hear x7 chat is pretty good and so you should visit their site for the download. As far as forums go, there is smf and phbb to mention but a few. Each app's website pretty much does a good job when it comes to instructions on how to download, install and set up.

Good luck and let us know how it works out for you.

Good contibution, yewatide.
Wanna ask here- If u are going to recommend an hosting company (not specifically for chat rooms) which do u think is fine?

@phtomay Gud Host

I use hostmonster.com and having been using them since 2005, with no problems whatsoever.

i can create an efficient ajax driven chat 4 u, drop a reply 4 m if interested

@ogzille Am absolutely interested. Thnx

@yawatide
i'v succesfully installed phpbb on my webserver bt am stil down wit its config. I wil get back soon. Thnx

Configuring phpbb is actually a snap.

Also, be sure to check out for modifications that will help you spice up the board here: http://www.phpbb.com/mods/

But first, to reduce the time you will spend modding the board, make sure you download Automod for automatic mod installation here: http://www.phpbb.com/mods/automod/
Read up on installation and usage here: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewforum.php?f=225

If you want the chat integrated with the forum, there are a couple of chat modifications currently under development in the phpbb community. You could install any those.

Good luck!

Olawunmi,
Sales Rep., Hostmot (www.hostmot.com)

It is possible and i can do that for you
email me ardourjewels@ymail.com

check gistcentral.com
if its that kinda chatroom feature you want, then mail me to put u through
sawyerrken at gmail dot com

If it is SMF, I can help out with the chatroom