ajmal

Use PHP. I have a beta login script that I coded some time ago, it's supports registering, email activation, access levels and etc. I spent 2 days coding it only, it's not that hard, just be patient. you need, besides the html, obviously a script that handles the posted data, compares the login info and etc.

WAMP and XAMPP sound cool, but I prefer Uni-Server: http://www.uniformserver.com/ It's much smaller (3 MB) and supports CGI/PHP/MySQL as well

yes, it is realiable, but I would backup ipb's table only so the backup would be smaller, also it will be easier to restore. anyways, do whatever you think it's better

my opinion is the same as always, mySQL is widely supported, free and easy to use, but lacks features; pgSQL has more features than mySQL but it's sluggish ... what means that the best SQL server, with no doubt is the powerful ORACLE. Or do you think people waste thousands of dollars in Oracle for nothing?

You are partially wrong: - you don't need to use perl to write a forum using flat files. you can use php+flat files or perl+mysql. I wrote myself a php CMS using flatfile database. - storing data in mysql or files makes no difference. mysql needs a hd too, or did you think the data stored in sql dbs just float around?

I'm surprised... You should receive a "Fatal Error: call to undefined function". It's mysql_num_rows and not mysql_numrows. Read notes on usage here: http://php.net/mysql_num_rows

@fabio: are you Brazilian? Your name and the way you write just looks Brazilian =)@Houdini: the piece of code you post won't help; you must use mysql_connect() to actually connect to the database.@Cookiemonster: Your problem is exactly what it says; "argument is not a valid MySQL result resource ". Do what fabio told; or something like:$adminemail = mysql_query("SOMEQUERYHERE") or die (mysql_error());which will return an error if any