On 5/31/05, Ryan A <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify I don't know what you mean by "bare bones" exactly (how stripped down are you looking for?) but here are three fairly small forum systems you might want to have a look at: punBB - http://www.punbb.org/ (used it myself in the past, very nice and slimmed down) miniBB - http://www.minibb.net (powers the Textpattern forums) bbPress - http://bbpress.org/ (powers the Wordpress forums, not really stable yet as far as I can tell but looks promising) Obviously you might have to put in a bit of work to make them authenticate against a different database structure, shouldn't be too difficult though. > a tutorial for creating a forum It would be quite difficult to write one of those to be honest, there's an awful lot you need to take into account for even the smallest of forums, unless you want something *very* simple like WWWBoard (http://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html - written in Perl though). > I will need a kind of "client editor" for when people write their messages > into the forum, > eg: make this bold and that italics and that centered and that with an image > and so on > I had actually seen a (dhtml, I think) form some time back where you could > preview your > message at the side as you made changes...somewhat like what google has for > their > ad-cents accounts where you can change the colors of your ad and immediatly > it shows the > changes at the side in a box. Have a look at the code for the larger bulletin board systems - phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) has this feature and it's open source (I would recommend vBulletin as well but it's proprietory unfortunately). I imagine someone out there has probably written a standalone module for it too - try searching for "bb code wysiwyg" on Google or something like that. Hope this helps. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
