Re: Forum

on 29/04/03 8:23 AM, Ryan A (ryan@jumac.com) wrote: > My advise to you is dont try to reinvent the wheel.... > this is an excellient forum software and I use it myself > www.phpBB.com My advise would be that if you have the skills, or want the challenge, create your own. - you'll get exactly what you want - you'll understand the source and inner workings implicitly, and will be able to easily make changes, re-skin it, etc etc - it will be easier to integrate the BB members into the rest of your website/community if YOU create the membership and session code from scratch - you'll learn more, and will have solved a problem you didn't know how to solve - you can choose to exclude features and bloatware that all these major BB systems have, and get down to the guts of what your users need By all means install a few of the top ones and see if they meet your needs, and perhaps even learn a bit about how they work, but I'm glab I built my own from scratch. Cheers, Justin