I want to develop a web based message board ,can you suggest me which language I should used for best result.

The most popular setup right now, and by far the fastest I've seen, is PHP4 with MySql.

ASP... because you can't compete with VBulletin

but maybe you could create something advanced in SQL_ASP.

Good luck!

Originally posted by logus
ASP... because you can't compete with VBulletin


Well I think version 2.0 of phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com) will compete nicely with VBulletin :D.

Frank

Perl

Do it in the language you are most familiar with :)

javascript

Originally posted by Sorgboi
javascript

LOL

--James

Originally posted by mithilesh
I want to develop a web based message board ,can you suggest me which language I should used for best result.

Why would you reinvent the weel? :)

How about in basic! :D

Of course the language you are most comfortable with.

Originally posted by ffeingol


Well I think version 2.0 of phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com) will compete nicely with VBulletin :D.

Frank

I dont. Its ugly IMHO :blush:

I dont. Its ugly IMHO :blush:

It is not bad at all. You can chack out their test forum at http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB2/

I like vB. It is easy to customize. Template mods are fairly easy once you play around with them a bit. PHP and mySQL are far better on resources than cgi scripts like are used with UBB.

Originally posted by Matthew_J


It is not bad at all. You can chack out their test forum at http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB2/

seen it - aint impressed :)

Even if one is born ugly, there's always facial salon, slimming center, apparels, breast implant operation, etc..

It'll be much easlier to customise/re-design/add-on a BB script. :D

Originally posted by Nicholas Brown


I dont. Its ugly IMHO :blush:

You can customize it easily ...change the font fron arial to verdana and it already looks a lot better ;)

I just started installing phpbb - newest version from www.phpbb.com as of today - but decided to discontinue after about halfways.

It really is ugly - not in the sense of layout but the overall product.

I know it is easy to apply a new "theme" but all the spelling mistakes - for a product you want to release it might be an idea to just have someone run over your text first - and all the stupid little bugs - like if you decide to have your basedirectory being "/" it suddenly falls over - it does not expect you to setup a subdomain for the forum (http://forum.abc.com/) but expects to see something like (http://www.abc.com/forum) - yes I know I can - and did - fix this bug, then the next bug popped up. Sorry, there are alternatives...

I don't see how anyone can say that phpbb2 is ugly, maybe the default theme. You have to check this out

http://www.subsky.com/phpBB2/index.php

That is surely not ugly, IMO.

Originally posted by newedge
I don't see how anyone can say that phpbb2 is ugly, maybe the default theme. You have to check this out

http://www.subsky.com/phpBB2/index.php

That is surely not ugly, IMO.
Very pretty!

I'm guessing that most folks who think phpBB is "ugly" are mostly basing their opinion off the current 1.4 release. It *is* tough to change the layout and look of that release, but it's not impossible. And much of the bad html in the 1.x releases has been really cleaned up for 2.0. Actually, for those not wanting to throw down the $160 for vB right now, the beta of phpBB 2.0 is available now. It's beta one, so there's missing stuff and some bugs, but it gives you a good feel for it...

Version 2 is fully templated so it's only as "ugly" as the user wants it to be. It's easy to make it look however you would like it to.