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flurffmeister

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I'm thinking of writing a bulletin board system from scratch now that I'm getting to know PHP more, but I'm not sure that I can do it alone. I was wondering if there was anyone else out there who wanted to write one too, maybe we can do one together. It'll be based on PHP 4.3.0, with heavy reliance on MySQL database for settings, posts, users, and themes (although by default the page will be done via PHP's built-in integration to HTML pages... e.g. <HTML CODE><?php echo $var ?></HTML CODE> ). The reason for that being I don't know any other database than MySQL.
 
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notfred

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Make sure you know what you're doing and don't leaves gaping holes in your scripts that allow people to hack your server like Pr0hawk yesterday.

 
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FoBoT

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how is it going to be better/different than the other 20 php/mysql forums? are you adding new and exciting features that nobody else has thought of?

(other than you did it yourself)
 
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flurffmeister

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Justin: That's true, but doesn't work when short tags are disabled.

FoBoT: Not really that many new features, I don't think, I just haven't really written my own software in PHP/MySQL yet, just made some modifications of a few existing boards. I guess the main difference from every other forum out there is more user-customizability. The user would be able to customize the look and functionality to their tastes moreso than most other boards.

You know how most local programs have things like toolbar customization and checkboxes with every notification/input message saying "Do not ask me this again" or "Don't show this message again", well, I was thinking of doing that, along with being able to upload your own skin.
 
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notfred

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Originally posted by: flurffmeister
Justin: That's true, but doesn't work when short tags are disabled.

FoBoT: Not really that many new features, I don't think, I just haven't really written my own software in PHP/MySQL yet, just made some modifications of a few existing boards. I guess the main difference from every other forum out there is more user-customizability. The user would be able to customize the look and functionality to their tastes moreso than most other boards.

You know how most local programs have things like toolbar customization and checkboxes with every notification/input message saying "Do not ask me this again" or "Don't show this message again", well, I was thinking of doing that, along with being able to upload your own skin.
Click to expand...

Most people don't care. I've never moved the MS word toolbars around, and my settings for AT are the exact same they were the first time I logged in.
 
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flurffmeister

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I wouldn't necessarily say most people don't care. I've added a lot of user-customizability to one of my vBulletin sites and nearly every one of the regular users uses one or more of the additions I made.
 
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notfred

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You going to distribute this software, or only use it on your own site, or what kind of plans do you have for it?
 
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