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Forum Developer Needed - Work for free.

Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 9:33 pm
by Sticks
Hello!

I am making a website with forums. I want original forums developed exclusivly for my site, but the thing is, I can't pay you.

I made a list of features that I would like.
It must be MySQL compatible.


ADMIN ONLY FEATURES
- Change Fourm Permissions in Admin Panel (Read, Post, Create New Topic, ect., You know, like,

you can set guests permissions, member permissions, moderator permissions, and admin

permission.)
- Add New Forums (Title, Description, and, if the forum adder wants, a password for the forum.)
- Make Announcement Topics
- Make View Poster's IP Address
- Backup the MySQL Database
- Restore the MySQL Database
- Mas Email All Memebers
- Add and Delete Smilies
- Add and Delete Word Censors
- Ban Members (Usernames, IP Addresses, Emails)
- Unban Members (Usernames, IP Addresses, Emails)
- Make Members Admins
- Make Members Moderators
- Add and Delete Ranks
- Change Board Name
- Change Board Description
- Enable and Disable Board (Moderators and Admins can access the board when it is disabled.)
- Enable and Disable Account Activation (New Users must type in an activation code that they get

in there email after registering.)
- Enable and Disable Sending Email via the Board
- Enable and Disable GZip Conpression
- Enable and Disable Private Messaging
- Enable and Disable HTML
- Enable and Disable DB Code (for more information, read the rest of this advertisment.)
- Enable and Disable HTML
- Enable and Disable Signatures
- Enable and Disable Members to Change There Username
- Enable and Disable Avatars

MODERATOR AND ADMIN ONLY FEATURES
- Delete Posts and Topics
- Lock Topics
- Move Topics
- Unlock Topics
- Edit Posts

MODERATOR, ADMIN, AND MEMBERS ONLY FEATURES
- Create Polls in There Posts
- Delete Own Posts
- Edit Own Posts
- Change Profile
- Change Signature
- Change Avatar

EVERYONE FEATURES
- Create New Topics
- Post Messages
- Use the Private Messaging System
- View Mememberlist
- Search the Board
- Register
- View Who's On The Board
- Email Members via the Board
- Use DB Code
- Use HTML

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

A user must enter a randomized 4-digit number to be able to register an account. This revents

robots from registering.

Add a quick reply form below the topic.

Show the status of a user with color text in topic viewing next to their post, in memberlist and

on view profile.

Allow members to compile a list of users to ignore. Posts of the ignored users will be replaced

by a message that the user is being ignored. There is a link that will show the post if the

member chooses to read it.


DB Code
If you know what BB Code is, you'll know how this works, but if you don't, I'll explain.

DB Code is easy. It is basicly HTML written differently. IT shouldn't be hard to script this.

[image height=0 width=0]Image's URL Goes Here[/image]
That'll insert an image. The height and width can be changed.

[italic]Text Here[/italic]
That'll make the text inside of the "italic" tags italic.

[bold]Text Here[/bold]
That'll make the text inside of the "italic" tags bold.

[under]Text Here[/under]
that'll make the text inside of the "under" tags underlined.

[g color=green]Text here[g]
That'll make the text inside of the "g" tags glow. The color can be changed.

[link=URL Here][Text for Link here[/link]
That'll make a link to the website URL specified.

[quote=1]
That'll quote the last post. The numbers can be changed to go back even father. (ex. If the 1

was a 2 instead, it'll quote the post before the last.)

[c=red]Text here[/c]
That'll make the text a color specified. Hex codes can be used too.


That's all of the DB Code. if you have more ideas for it, please add them.


THAT'S ALL!!! IF YOU HAVE MORE IDEAS, PLEASE GO AHEAD AND ADD THEM!!

I would like this script done in appox. 4 months.
I designed a layout that you must script around. I'll send it to you if you want the job.

So, contact me:
sticks@gaminghighway.com

I'll be waiting your reply! ;)

Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 10:57 pm
by nickvh
HAHAHA good luck finding some1,

THOUGH

Download PHPDev4 and all that is pre-setup! :lol: It has Invision power board pre-installed and is apache base and has a MySQL server built it 8O

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:03 am
by twigletmac
:lol: :lol: ROFL - you have to offer something in return for people's hard work and time :!: .

Seriously if you want all of that for free:
PHPBB
Invision Power Board

Then modify the templates to make it look like you want it to.

Mac

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:04 am
by twigletmac
Oh and to be pendantic, it's called BB Code not DB Code - Bulletin Board code, geddit?

Mac

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 11:24 am
by Sticks
Yes, I'm not dumb. DaBreegster Chronicles Database is my site's name. DB = DaBreegster.

I had someone doing this already, but he must've forgot.

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 12:29 pm
by twigletmac
Sticks wrote:I had someone doing this already, but he must've forgot.
For the amount of work you're looking for at the price you are looking for it at you would be incredibly lucky to find anybody stupid enough to do it. Seriously, just modify the templates of one of the free boards, add some hacks for the additional functionality you want or pay proper rates for your own bespoke solution.

Mac

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 2:46 pm
by pootergeist
Realistically, to get a secure forum operational, you are looking at well over 700-1000 man/woman-hours. To get the bugs out of that you're looking at twice that timeline again.

Want a sole coder to spend a year and a half creating something adequate?

Or perhaps you might put your trust in some of the fore-runners of the language and just use their already coded + tested + distributed application.

If you are offering £50,000 and above to each coder you enlist to the project, you might get something worthwhile.
If not, just understand that you are not going to get Rasmus Lerdorf sweating his posterior off for you when he knows, we know, they know and 'you should know', darn decent applications already exist.

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:43 pm
by Robert A.
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Well, it seems you guys do not belong to the open-source movement...

Whichever movement you belong to, I belong to the same movement you belong to! I don't believe in working for peanuts or for donations either!

But at the same time, let us give credit to some open-source people who have created really GREAT software and are distributing it for free..

Like the forum software we are all using: PHPBB! Isn'it marvellous?

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 8:47 pm
by redhair
what is this <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>... :?:

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:40 pm
by evilcoder
this topic should be locked. Nothing is coming out of it.

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:31 am
by McGruff
I am making a website with forums. I want original forums developed exclusivly for my site, but the thing is, I can't pay you.
lol

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:22 am
by evilcoder
hehehe... it is rather funny..

Hey Gruff, can you design me a backend membership system which i will charge $20 per member, for 100,000 members.. For free? And can you supply the box and all the equipments.. Thanks mate.

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:24 am
by Paddy
You forgot the bandwidth. ;)

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:25 am
by evilcoder
oh yeah, and about 1000GB of bandwidth a month.. thanks. Sheesh lucky you were paying attention paddy

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:33 am
by Paddy
Yeah, I'd hate to see you out of pocket. ;)

Good preparation is the key to success of any scam, ummm, I mean money making venture. :)