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dogscoff said:
So how does that work then? I'm 90% sure my friends have their site hosted somewhere (ie, they don't have their own webserver box in their garage) so would they have to download/ install/ learn to use MySQL or would their ISP (or whoever is hosting) take care of all that invisibly?
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If MySQL is not set up for their use already, there is no way they can install it. Stuff like that has to be set up by the server administrator and they have to be granted access to it. Have them check if they have MySQL support.
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Learning to set up phpBB on their behalf might be possible, but learning about a database as well sounds like a major increase in the gradient of the learning curve.
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If they have access to MySQL, the phpBB installation script takes care of all of the database stuff, after you edit config.php to include the MySQL user and password info. Once it is installed, setting up phpBB through the web interface is fairly simple.
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BTW, I appreciate your replies Fyron, but shouldn't you be in bed? It must be middle of the night where you are.
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Nope.
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How much space does a php bulletin board require?
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SEnet Forums currently have about 5000 posts. The MySQL database for this is somewhere around 4.5 MBs. If space becomes an issue, you can set the forums up to auto-prune old posts, thus reducing the space used overall. If you keep avatars to the GIF format, they take up a trivial amount of space. 10 MB should get you quite far for a low traffic board.
If your ISP provides automated install of phpBB through Cpanel or a similar site admin program, I would advise against it. Such installs usually have less than stellar setups, and are not always using the latest version...