Message Board

[ziycon]

I'd like to get some feedback as i've been playing with the idea of developing a message board from scratch using php, mysql, xml and css.

Anyone any ideas or comments?

[blacknight]

Why?

[Redfly]

It has been done 100 times over. Why reinvent the wheel?

If you are doing it for experience, I suggest developing something that has not been done before or something that has not much competition. That way you can make some money from it further down the line.

[dude]

If you really want to create a message board, why not do it in something other than PHP?

[ziycon]

Its purely for experiance, im looking to develop something in any of the below or even a mixture of the below languages:

PHP, CSS, mySQL, C# .NET, XML

Just can't think of any ideas!!

[georgiecasey]

something original anyway. someone was looking for an opensource blog aggregator, you could try that, i think there's only one available at the moment.

[blacknight]

Originally Posted by georgiecasey

something original anyway. someone was looking for an opensource blog aggregator, you could try that, i think there's only one available at the moment.

I've used at least three

[georgiecasey]

fair enough. make a better one then :-)
or if the OP wanted to make some cash, write a bebo spamming script or something that would definately sell

[dude]

If I were you - as someone who has been working within the PHP/MySQL field for about 10 years, I recommend you take a different route. There are simply too many crap PHP programmers out there, and I think it has damaged the language.

C# seems a better route to take. It's growing, and the people who use it are *generally* professional programmers rather than the studenty PHP types.

I'm going to be porting one of my sites - Staff - Irish Jobs - Work in Ireland - from PHP/MySQL to .NET.

Would you consider doing something similar? (e.g. a porting project?)

[blacknight]

Dude - you could be really cool and get it working with mono