I don't know as much about forums today, as I did a few years ago, but AFAIK most GUI BBCode Editors are simple html wysiwyg tools, that convert to bbcode in the background. On 5/31/05, Ryan A <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys (and girl...as we have one on the list...(that i know of)), > > Can anybody recommend a real bare bones forum that i can modify > or > a tutorial for creating a forum > or > URLs/Classes etc to help me create a simple forum? > > I checked on google but I couldnt find any tutorials or code, went to > hot-scripts and saw a _c r a p l o a d_ of forums (for free and otherwise) > but I have a client who insists I build him a forum which must fall > _exactly_ > to his specifications and work of our currently registered users database. > > Worse scenario, I will dl a few of the forums from hotscrpts and go through > each of their code...but I would like to avoid that if anyone can give me a > better option. > > > > 2nd question > 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. > I remember sometime back someone posting some WYSIWYG kind of editors which > loads > on the clients machine with just a textbox and the buttons to go bold, > italics,centered etc > unfortunatly looking into the archives i cant find it. > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 5/30/2005 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php