Open a new browser window, visit your PHP-Nuke site, and click the Forums link. The visitor is welcomed to the Forums module with a list of the categories:
Clicking the Who is Online link presents you with a list of people who are currently viewing the forum, and where they are in the forum.
Clicking on one of the forums takes you to the list of topics in that forum. At the moment, our forum is empty.
As the screen is encouraging us to do, we can click on the new topic button to post a new topic to the forum. We do not have to be an administrator to do this, but we do have to be a registered user of the PHP-Nuke site.
The form for posting a new topic is rather exciting:
You can enter the Subject of your topic, and enter the body of the topic in the Message body box. You are able to use a range of formatting effects within the body of your posting, including inserting those the little emoticons by clicking on them to add them to your text.
Before posting your topic, it is worth taking a moment to preview it by clicking the Preview Post button:
If you are happy with the posting as it is, click the Submit button and the posting is submitted. Your new topic is displayed in the forum's topic list:
Clicking the topic title brings up the submitted postings for that topic. At this point, we have only one—the topic posting:
Users can now continue the discussion by posting a reply to this post. The author of the post is able to reply to, edit, or delete his or her own post with the aid of the three icons in the top right‑hand corner of the post before any replies have been posted to the posting.