Creating a discussion forum.. can flash be used?

[LouLou28]

Hello,

I want to construct a simple discussion forum for my site, which at present, is entirely in Flash.

At the moment I dont have any experience of databases and forums (Ill be learning from scratch) so I just want to know if it is better to construct it in html or if it is easy in flash too.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Also.. I have to complete it within 2 months... is this unrealistic.

Can anyone recommend a good book or internet tutorial on this??

Thanks

Lou

[flashbangla]

two months is a hell lot of time, u can create a discussion board long before that.

check www.simplemachines.org/ ...dload the entire file. then do as they say. u must have a mysql database supported host.

if everything goes fine, ur board shud be installed within a week

[LouLou28]

thanks for that,
Im not to sure what I download: is it the first zip file?

Also, I might go on to create a forum that is seperated into different sections (like flash kit). Am I still able to do this with just one database and the download you recommended?

Cheers

[launchpad67]

Just use a standard html/php forum. So much easier than a flash site, redirecting script all over the place! I recommend Yabb Forums. They work perfectly, just takes a bit of time to set them up. Check it out, it's a great 'free-ware'' forum.
http://www.yabbforum.com/downloads.php

[LouLou28]

Thanks Mike, Ill check that out too..

are there ways of customising the header of the Yabb forum to contain my own graphics?