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I have to create a basic php forum.

I know there are free open source forums but i need to create it myself.

I have a entered a number of fixed topic names into mysql and echo them (select *) into a website table. next to the printed names i have button links which takes the user into the topic where they can view posts.

BUT

how would I allow the user to create a new topic. i can easily setup a submit form to add a new topic name but i need the new data to reproduce a link button/text and even better a new page with with a blank table until posts are entered.

i hope this makes sense and thanks for any help.

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Sorry this doesn't make much sense to me. If you post your DB table structure and an idea of which pages you have.

I would assume you have the following:

forum.php (list of topics)
topic.php (list of posts in specified topic)
post.php (form for adding/editing posts)

should be enough for a simple forum.

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