Need Help on deadline project:

[Anon]

I have been trying to get a php bulletin board created under pressure
and a php shopping cart my boss wants me to create. I admit that being
thrown into learning PHP is taking longer than I had expected and
getting exhausted trying to figure it all out.

I am also looking for web hosting (paid/free) but will probably go with
a free one as I am on a budget. or an ISP provider that supports
Apache, PHP, MySQL, which my current ISP doesn't support.

My first priority is the bulletin board:

I don't know who can help me as I have struggled with PHP for 3-4wks
now. I want a unique bulletin board, with cariatures rather then
smilies. With attached wavs for sounds of singing voice and yelling
quotes from actors faces.
So far most want a unthreaded board and we still want to keep the
familiarity of the AOL boards style, meaning the new board will not take

up the whole screen, so we can minimize the browser window to do other
things while on AOL. This board will be for approx. 80 to 150 people,
with 500-1,000 posts a week.

I need to have the board created by this Friday April 20th, and I am
about to give up creating everything but hate to let my friends down.
The reason for the deadline is most are traveling to NYC and want to be
able to post on the new "internet" boards because AOL boards are only
accessible if you are on AOL and not signed on as a guest, etc...

Right now, I am looking for someone that could help create the
cariatures(definitely) for me and the board (if possible). Even though I
am a web/graphic designer myself, I am not good drawing faces and having
a hard time with PHP...though I am an advanced HTML programmer.

I am about to give up on this board project (for friends/work) and the
shopping cart(for work).
But do you have any suggestions for me? I downloaded PHPslash and will
try that out to see how it looks.

Sometimes I don't understand the basics of programming because I am
hearing impaired/deaf, so I miss out on a lot of it. Also it's hard to
learn when thrown into it along with the stress of trying to find a new
job, my web company might close June 1st, it was set for May 1st, but
we got an extension with a few pokers projects out there to try to get!
I am looking to freelance projects too in the meantime, I need to figure
out this board as I am eager to please my friends.

Thanks!

[Anon]

Hi,

I recently wrote a simple bulletin board myself.
It's only 3 files and 1 table in MySQL database.

You can take a look and if you like it - you can have it, just send me e-mail. I will also provide you with the explanation how it works.

Example: http://larwomen.freephp.digiro.net

The only thing, it's a free hosting and when there are too many connections, their database fails. So to see the site, you need to go there in the morning or at night...

Sorry to hear about your troubles.. You shouldn't let stress to defeat you!

I've been in the same situation when I got my first job in America and had to learn Perl and PHP very fast..

"I am
hearing impaired/deaf, so I miss out on a lot of it. "

I have the same problem, I am Russian working for American company, so I do not understand half English when they speak fast.

What I do, I ask them to send me my task (with technical specifications) by e-mail and then I ask all questions by email in spite of they sit right next to me 😉))))

I understand you 🙁((

[Anon]

I would like the script if it\'s okay, it looks simple enough for me to work with. Is is threaded or unthreaded board? I get the 2 mixed up.
I hope that it will work for me, did you have to install apache, mysql?

I have gotten several emails today telling me not to go with free webhosting as like you said they are not reliable and connections are down alot.
Someone suggested www.pair.com thought you might want to check it out too.

Thanks for letting me see how it looks. :o)
Kewlphper

[Anon]

my e-mail is [e-mail].

Please send me your e-mail, because I do not know where to send you script.

I do not want to copy-paste here, it's too much. I will just send you files as attachments.

[Anon]

Good hosting:

www.dsvr.co.uk.

I use 'em, and their servers are fast, telnet, good sizes, secure, mysql, php etc. etc.

There are loads of PHP BBs out there, so getting one to work wouldn't be too hard (there's lots to copy from).

Good luck!