Coding Forum/Message Board

[Ascendancy]

Has anybody coded their own Forum, Message Board, or anything like those that you use forms and variables and such? I am trying to learn how to make one.

[thorpe]

Has anybody coded their own Forum, Message Board, or anything like those

Yes.

[Ascendancy]

How did it go, easy?

[void_function]

I did. It is rather complex, many things to think about if you want it done properly:

• Catagories and permissions
• BBCode, smileys
• Caching
• Tracking of read/unread messages
• Moderation code (sticky, lock, move, split)
• XSS and CSRF protection
• Display templating
• SPAM protection and user management/banning (ok, this was part of entire CMS).
• Avatars, signatures, user profile management

[ClarkF1]

I'm partway through a blog script......hardest part was BBCode as I had to learn Javascript but once I got past that hurdle it's been pretty straightforward

[Piranha]

Judging from your other posts you are pretty new to PHP and programming in general. If that is the case I suggest that you do smaller things first. But whatever you decide, make sure to first do it on paper to be able to know exactly how the database will look like and what classes, functions and web pages will do and how they should be connected. Otherwise you will only end up programming the forum 5 times instead of 1.