Technical Online Discussion Forum

Project Overview:
It’s a PHP project named “Technical Online Discussion Forum” is the place where persons after
creating their account can share their ideas and make discussions on various topics. It’s a
technical discussion form, where users will able to enter questions and get answers on various
technical and other topics. For example, the topic can be related to PHP, Java, general knowledge,
English, maths, hibernate etc. Each type of questions will be under particular forum. Registered
users will be allowed to enter questions, provide answers to the questions, get personal
messages to their notification area, make reply to other existing posts etc. We have used
standard WYSIWYG editor to enter questions and get answers in formatted manner. Even the
attachments can be made with particular posts through technical online discussion form
developed in PHP.

Existing System:
In the previous existing system, there was no proper moderation channel where the person
cannot keep an eye, what’s going on and the rules are being followed by all existing users. There
was no proper communication channel. Previously, users were not able to get admin messages
and options to create their community and send friend request to existing users. There was no
check performed on validation and type of questions to be entered under particular forum. In
existing system, there was no proper password recovery method, and the admin does not have
the power to block users, their activity and points which is assigned to them.

Proposed System:
In this new PHP based technical online discussion forum, there will be three type of users who
will interact this system and control the various activity. These three users will be: admin,
moderator and the users. Users will be responsible to enter questions in particular forum, get
their answers, make reply to existing posts, check scores of other users, access message dialog
box and make changes through their profile settings. It’s the moderator, who will have the
authority to approve questions and answers posted by the registered users. Admin will keep track
on various activity of users and the moderators. Among these, there are other features, like
displaying the posts based on various parameters like recent posts, displaying in ascending or
descending order, by date etc, switch to other forums, check online users and send friend
requests.

Features of this project:

1. Using PHP based technical online discussion forum, users can manage their personal
accounts.
2. Users can create their groups and send invitations to other users for joining their created
groups.
3. Users can directly send private messages and friend requests to other users, even to the
admin and moderator.
4. Special appearance and profile avatar for different tier level users.
5. Easy password recovery through users registered email address.