uni project

[woozyer]

I'm thinking of creating a website for my final year project.

Basically it will be a community website. With a discussion board, a chat room and database of users.

I want to be able to give a unique username and password to all the users of the website. Have User roles ie Adminstrator, normal user etc... Be able to ban users for a set period of time. Delete users. Also when the users log into the chatroom, I have an idea where when they go to chatroom it automatically logs them in with their website user name.

Now reading all of this, I was wondering if someone could be kind enough to tell me what things i need for this website? what things should I be looking to integrate into the website? ie Jave, Php etc...

thanks

[pyro]

I would recommend using Java for the chat, PHP for the server-side programming and MySQL for the database.

[woozyer]

Thanks Pyro:)

Would you recommend me using Java for the server side programming?

It is a final year project. so i do want it to be very challenging and get as much kudos points as possible:p

[pyro]

If you use Java for your server side programming, it will be JSP. I personally use and recommend PHP, but that might just be me... ;) For a chat, you are definitly going to want to use a Java applet, though.