Can I set up a Client Side message board?

[cooldad]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial or such that will help me write a client side message board. I want my users to have the facility to post messages that can be responded to etc without the gubbins of a full blown forum. All of the stuff I can find on the web appears to be hosted on their servers and laden with advertising and as my users will be principaly children this isn't acceptable. The client is a charity so they don't want to have to pay for something. Surely I can HTML/JavaScript something? Anyone any ideas?

[David Harrison]

If you want a message board then you have to have something on the server-side. There has to be somewhere (usually a database) where all of the messages are stored and then retrived from.

phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) is a free forum, there are lots of mods available for it aswell since it's an open-source project. You'll need somewhere to host it though that supports PHP and MySQL databases.

[cooldad]

Thanks for this David. I thought it might end up server side. I'll have a look through this site and see if it is all within my current capabilities. My host does support PHP & MySQL so assuming the phpBB team make it simple they might be the answer. Thnaks again.

[David Harrison]

Happy to help. :)

[pcthug]

AJAX is about as Client-side as your gonna get:
http://demo.k4bb.org/
http://www.k4bb.org/k4/index.php

[cooldad]

Thanks - I'll check this one out also.