Try to take a look at http://www.phpbb.com/ is fee and done but with 
smilies :-)
Henrik Hansen

----- Original Message -----
From: <WantMyLiveMotion@a...>
To: professional php <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 5:28 PM
Subject: [pro_php] bulletin board:NEED HELP please:


> I have been trying to get a php bulletin board created under pressure
> and a php shopping cart my boss wants me to create.   I admit that 
being
> thrown into learning PHP is taking longer than I had expected and
> getting exhausted trying to figure it all  out.
>
> I am also looking for web hosting (paid/free) but will probably go 
with
> a free one as I am on a budget. or an  ISP provider that supports
> Apache, PHP, MySQL, which my current ISP doesn't support.
>
> My first priority is the bulletin board:
>
> I don't  know who can help me as I have struggled with PHP for 3-4wks
> now. I want a unique bulletin board, with cariatures rather then
> smilies. With attached wavs for sounds of singing voice and yelling
> quotes from actors faces.
> So far most want a unthreaded board and we still want to keep the
> familiarity of the AOL boards style, meaning the new board will not 
take
> up the whole screen, so we can minimize the browser window to do other
> things while on AOL. This board will be for approx. 80 to 150 people,
> with 500-1,000 posts a week.
>
> I need to have the board created by this Friday April 20th, and I am
> about to give up creating everything but hate to let my friends down.
> The reason for the deadline is most are traveling to NYC and want to 
be
> able to post on the new "internet" boards because AOL boards are only
> accessible if you are on AOL and not signed on as a guest, etc...
>
> Right now, I am looking for someone that could help create the
> cariatures(definitely) for me and the board (if possible). Even though 
I
> am a web/graphic designer myself, I am not good drawing faces and 
having
> a hard time with PHP...though I am an advanced HTML programmer.
>
> I am about to give up on this board project (for friends/work) and the
> shopping cart(for work).
> But do you have any suggestions for me? I downloaded PHPslash and will
> try that out to see how it looks.
>
> Sometimes I don't understand the basics of programming because I am
> hearing impaired/deaf, so I miss out on a lot of it.  Also it's hard 
to
> learn when thrown into it along with the stress of trying to find a 
new
> job, my web company might close June 1st,  it was set for May 1st, but
> we got an extension with a few pokers projects out there to try to 
get!
> I am looking to freelance projects too in the meantime, I need to 
figure
> out this board as I am eager to please my friends.
>
> Thanks!