Hey guys

I know how to use big php forums and stuff but i only want a simple forum

Does anyone know, or have, any good code that could add forums to a simple .hml page

that means no perl or php, just javascript/html/xml



any help will be appreciated

JavaScript is a client side technology which has some uses but building a forum is not one of them, and even if it were possible JavaScript can be turned off. I doubt you will find any responses of an actual working forum, you will have to use a file system of some sort either a flatfile or a database (this would almost require PHP) JavaScript can help validate forms and such but I have to say unless there is something that I really don't know there is no way using JS CSS or (X)HTML to create a forum site.

Good luck.

So, if you want to have a forum, you must find a host which has at least php support and mysql support.
If this host is astahost, you have pre-installed scripts in your cpanel.
If you want a very simple php+mysql forum, you can use this one : http://www.ben3w.com/
It's really simple : download to your pc, upload to your site, and run install.php on your site.

I can help you if you want forums without MySQL database. But it uses PHP, the forum is called EasyForums, has anyone heard of it. Here is the link...to the download page.

What I would like to say is that, EasyForums uses simple text based database, instead of the MySQL database. This is very usefull when some free web hosts dont provide MySQL support.

A forum by its nature requires that the user inputted data, the posts that is, must be saved to somewhere in the server. There is just no way to do that with the technologies you listed as they do not run on the server and have access to the storage space there.

XML would be a neat way to store the data but you must have some piece of software to write it to the server. You could though leave formatting it to a web page for the browsers to do.

For sites with no php/mySQL but with cgi-bin and perl, one option used to be iKonboard, but since the company got taken over there is almost no chance of finding the software. If you do have an html based site and want a simple forum, maybe some sort of guestbook script might work, where the entries are written to alog that is then parsed when the guest book is viewed. I'm afraid its beyond my programming knowledge to code thsi, but maybe someone else could help you.