I know how to make a forum from html5 but is it possible to make a forum from a unity program and databases?
Thank you
That would not be a good use of Unity, if it could be done at all. Unity is best as a game and simulation engine. It would be best to use a forum package such as available on Wordpress and similar resources.
Why would you want to do that?
Do you want to display a forum in game or something?
Maybe you can embed a browser into your game (I’ve seen some games do it) and display an existing forum in game. But creating a forum in Unity… huh?
I think everything is possible and with a lot of codding, canvas, projecting you can do it.
Sure, but why would you?
I could build a house out of cardboard and tapioca pudding… but why would I?
Because then it wouldn’t tempt Hanzel and Gretel, but the witch herself.
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Yeah, obviously its a really bad idea to try doing it in Unity, even if somebody wanted a special app to view his forum, he could do it in .NET or something like that. You may do it if you have a lot of time as you want semi waste it on something weird.
Actually about a cardboard house - not bad idea, since there’s an lego real house where everything is made out of lego. Its quite interesting, however forum made in unity won’t be.
Possible == true
Optimal == false
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As suggested, use embedded browser. Problem solved. You can open any page then in game and interact with game and page.
Yes, but it wouldn’t be a practical way to build a forum. One of the primary advantages to using the HTML method is that search engines are able to index normal pages. With Unity the search engine wouldn’t be able to index it and thus people wouldn’t be able to easily find older posts. But that’s just one of the problems that you’d have to deal with.
For further information on both this and other problems you will face using Unity to develop a website I recommend reading up on the problems people encountered when trying to build websites entirely from Flash. You’ll find that the problems they faced and their reason for abandoning it will be the same for Unity.
I’m going to say no. Trying to do even basic text manipulation stuff in Unity is slow and frustrating. Trying to make a full forum in Unity will drive a developer insane before they ever finish it.
I mean, just look at this guy. He is stating to go insane already just thinking about it.
I know but i have seen a game in flash that has a little forum inside it (without search, count of posts, images for the users, allowed to upload images etc). Its a demo version of a forum. Its simple discussions with topics only.
Really is it possible to embed a web page into your game?
If you would go for just simple forum, using native Unity components, but nothing like wordpress and alike, then you can have simple dynamic text boxes components, with basics button controllers. But when you start thinking about spell checking images and text formatting, Editing, not to mention mods and admin control panels, then good luck 
I think most reasonable would be something simple as blog type. Very basics.
I got impression (correct me, if I am wrong) that you have little, to none knowledge about what forums involves.
If you want have an idea about forum, download some free PhP forums, + DB just to get a glimpse, of what you trying to suggest for Unity.
Why you don’t look at embedded browser solutions, as suggested already few time? Then you run forum via embedded browser in Unity game, on the normal html/php/html5/whatever page. And whats important, you keep security level, with page communication to the server. Good thing is, you can then have same looking page on the server as in the game.Relatively easy themes implementation etc.
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Ok thank you i will choose to embed a page.