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Feb 23.2006

Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial or such that will help me write a client side message board. I want my users to have the facility to post messages that can be responded to etc without the gubbins of a full blown forum. All of the stuff I can find on the web appears to be hosted on their servers and laden with advertising and as my users will be principaly children this isn’t acceptable. The client is a charity so they don’t want to have to pay for something. Surely I can HTML/JavaScript something? Anyone any ideas?

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@David_HarrisonFeb 23.2006 — If you want a message board then you have to have something on the server-side. There has to be somewhere (usually a database) where all of the messages are stored and then retrived from.

[url=http://www.phpbb.com/]phpBB[/url] is a free forum, there are lots of mods available for it aswell since it's an open-source project. You'll need somewhere to host it though that supports PHP and MySQL databases.
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@cooldadauthorFeb 23.2006 — Thanks for this David. I thought it might end up server side. I'll have a look through this site and see if it is all within my current capabilities. My host does support PHP & MySQL so assuming the phpBB team make it simple they might be the answer. Thnaks again.
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@David_HarrisonFeb 23.2006 — Happy to help. ?
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@pcthugFeb 24.2006 — AJAX is about as Client-side as your gonna get:

http://demo.k4bb.org/

http://www.k4bb.org/k4/index.php
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@cooldadauthorFeb 24.2006 — Thanks - I'll check this one out also.
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