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    <p>If you wanted to, you could use existing forum software and/or Wordpress to facilitate what you want, which would be easier than building your own forum from scratch. You could, with that existing framework, set up your own little API to communicate from the iPhone app to the server- for example, send a $_GET request to a PHP script on your server, which would return a list of forum topics. You could have similar PHP scripts that could do similiar functions, like adding a post or deleting topics.</p> <p>That's pretty much how I've got it set up on an iPhone app I recently made- my server has a basic forum system, and I just wrote a couple of PHP scripts to return information from a MySQL server. However, if you'd particularly prefer to use Wordpress/Amazon S3/whatever else, then I could give more specific instructions relating to those services.</p> <p>*<strong><em>EDIT</em>*</strong></p> <p>Here's an example PHP script you could use (after you've created databases):</p> <p><em>forumcategories.php</em></p> <p><code>&lt;?php</code><br> <code>// insert database connecting logic here</code> </p> <p><code>$query = mysql_query("SELECT * from categories");</code> </p> <p><code>echo "&lt;categories"&gt;;</code></p> <p><code>while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)){</code><br> <code>echo "&lt;category&gt;&lt;id&gt;" . $row['id'] . "&lt;/id&gt;&lt;title&gt;" . $row['title']; . "&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/category&gt;;"</code> </p> <p><code>}</code><br> <code>echo "&lt;/categories&gt;";</code></p> <p><code>?&gt;</code></p> <p>This is a really simple script- of course, you would need to add in code to connect to the database (which can be found easily online) and probably some error checking, but other than that, it will do the trick. What you would do in the iPhone app is send a request to <code>http://yourserver/forumcategories.php</code> and it would return XML listing all of the categories, which can easily be parsed with NSXMLParser and placed into a UITableView, for example.</p>
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    1. COThanks - what was the basic forum system you used? Was it off the shelf, or custom? Would love to know more about possible Wordpress solutions.
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    2. COWell, I made my own simple forum by making MySQL tables and writing PHP scripts to return/add/edit information in them- I didn't bother to build a web interface, as I knew it would be used for an iPhone app. However, if you'd prefer a simpler way, Wordpress might be the way to go. There definitely are Wordpress forum plugins out there... but I'm currently searching for one now that would be able to communicate with $_POST or $_GET requests from an iPhone app.
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    3. COOf course, this is all assuming that you would be more comfortable with PHP and/or other web languages... if you'd rather skip the server-side scripting and communicate directly with Objective-C from the app to your database, you could. However, I wouldn't recommend that method as such things can get pretty complicated and confusing.
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