Hi -

Is it feasible to create a PHP based bulletin board (with only admin rights, no anonymous comments or anything) from scratch and integrate it into a site's design, without being a natural born coding guru?

Or, am I doomed to use a pre-built one that runs off of MySQL and stuff?

thanks!

-ZiP!-

6/29/2006 10:38:55 AM

actually, perhaps a very restrictive and simple "guestbook" script could do this, potentially?

-ZiP!-

6/29/2006 10:42:31 AM

yes

it's called a content management system

6/29/2006 10:43:07 AM

"doomed"? there's good, small clean customizable ones out there - http://getvanilla.com/ (down for now? via http://www.lussumo.com/)

Why don't you ask CrazyJ and Joe..... unless you consider them "natural born code gurus"

I would say sure, though - go ahead. Within a couple days you can probably have a functioning board, rife with bugs and security holes.


^^ yeah, a guestbook script was the first PHP/mySQL i ever wrote. Very easy - about 50 lines, a few hours of work - learning PHP, setting up mySQL, learning some SQL. http://www.thalions.com/wedding/guestbook.php
The actual code is complete crap, but it works. wouldn't be too hard to expand it

[Edited on June 29, 2006 at 10:48 AM. Reason : .]

6/29/2006 10:45:49 AM

^^yah, unfortunately i've never built and CMS stuff for anyone prior

^ooh, thanks man. i'll have to check out vanilla when its back up. that guestbook looks great -- would there normally be a "sign in" button or something to allow for an admin to add things?

-ZiP!-

[Edited on June 29, 2006 at 10:50 AM. Reason : and i didnt mean to step on toes by implying that the prebuilt ones were gross sometimes]

6/29/2006 10:46:27 AM

he's not suggesting you build one.
You install one - drupal, mambo, ezpublish, whatever - and most of them have forums built in or available via plugins or whatever.

6/29/2006 10:48:46 AM

and in those situations, that could be inserted within a pre-existing table in html? (to maintain visual consistency)

-ZiP!-

6/29/2006 10:51:13 AM