there are many fantastic forums such as Invision board, vb, phpBB etc... but quite honestly, these things are bulky as hell.

what if i just want a small place for me & some friends to talk?
we don't need all the clutter of that amazing "click here to send this page to a friend whilst also printing this page and serving you a cup of coffee". although the coffee feature would be sweet ;)

i'm just saying, there must be some good light fast & free forums out there. ones that live by the KISS-moto (Keep It Simple, Stupid).

any suggestions?

Come on.... code your own.... It's the easiest thing to do.

2 Tables.

1 for the forum names holding

Forum_Name, Forum_ID

1 for the posts holding

Post_Subject, Post_ID, Forum_ID, Post_Content, Post_Submitter, Post_Date, Post_Time.

Forum_ID will be the same in both tables so you can mysql_query("Select * from posts where forum_id=$forumid");

That gets all the posts in that specific forum. Of course you can fetch titles and make a viewing....if i had some time i would do one myself. But of course this is just me..if you want a simpler solution search around hotscript.som in the php section. I'm sure you'll find something.

I'll be working on such a project but don't expect anything anytime soon. However I've found that http://www.minibb.net is the simplest out there and works great. It also has afeature to make the whole board just one forum to simplify things. Check it out.

Hope this helps

It depends on your knowledge of the programming language if you are going to try and make one.

I know with alot of forums on the web today that you can simply turn off the features you dont want, such as the member list, calendar etc etc. You could do that.

Also avaliable there are several tutorials avaliable on the internet to do what Damian said (here is the url to the PHP tutorials for creating a discussion system):

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Tips_and_Tutorials/Discussion_Boards/index.html

Have fun! :D

Chris :)

If you have PHP and MYSQL Avaliable download mecuriy board. Its simple but has the look of inivision board. Very good :)