My software is close to beta stage

I have been working on a bulletin board script for the last 8 months.
I started from scratch. Its wrote in css,php,java script,mysql and of course html.
here is a list of features i have so far.

Install-- You simply load the install.php and put the db and admin details in and click install and your board is ready for action..

1. Custom avatar
2. Quote post
3. Tons of bb code like add images text size code box pretty much everything this script has i have .
3. User cpanel user can add messenger details such as yahoo msn, DOB,Location,Signature, and tons more
4. Admin panel- Checks to make sure your running a up to date version,Setting that have the following options- Forum Name,Forum Url,Forum Path,Allow New Registrations<-- Reg can be set to closed ,Website Name,Website Link,Timezone Settings:,Date Format:,Time Format:,Cookie Prefix,Cookie Domain,Cookie Path,Cookie Secure.
Category,add forum, Edit,<--- edits forum and cats, ban member,un ban member,delete member, change members group,memberlist,create group,edit group, delete group, forum language, theme settings,optimize database.
5. Pm system. User has his own inbox that shows sent and saved personal messages.
6. Board stats, users online, guests online, total topics, latest member,total replies,total users
7. Polls with anti cheating system build in.
This is not everything of coursei i think you all get the idea tho. This is deff my best and most advanced work that i have done to this day. Do to the nature of the internet im not going to allow the software to be open source.
Some code will be open and the software will be easy to change the look and feel.
Also the software is going to be 100 percent free. I will post a demo link up in the next 2 week. I do hope i can find a couple beta testers at this board.

just the basics for now, but as a continue the board will advance and several plugins will be created

Great!, pls keep us up to date about your project. Also i would candidate myself as beta tester .

Let me know when you have/ or someone else has a working demo and ill come and post on there to check for problems for you

May 25th is the planned release date. I decided to make the software open source as well so others can develop the software even further.
If it all stays on track i will post the domain where the software will be released on the above date.

thanks for the support ...

Thanks to you for offering to us this script under the open source format, i would ask you what requirements we need to run it?, same as these for vBulletin, SMF, phpBB and so on or is there any special need?. Thanks once again for your contributions :biggrin:

Hi
you will only need a server that supports php and mysql.
i decided that the script will be much better off allowing it to be open source. This will open up thousands of doors. Some good doors some bad doors.

Do you have a url where one can preview the software?

yes i do have a domain registered for this software. Its not ready for the viewing or using and that is why i set a release date.
It would not be fair to the user or software to post the link. First impressions are everything so i dont want to post a link to buggy/incomplete software.

Thanks for the interest in the software. It will be released at the date i posted through hell or high water.

I can't wait to see it, another question (sorry if i make tons of questions but i haven't the fortune of discuss with a CMS' coder every day): how difficult is create a custom skin or theme for your script?, it's some simmilar to commercial scripts?.

it will be as easy as any other script.

forumroot/templates/default/
You can create a folder like
forumroot/templates/newtheme/
also image folder
forumroot/templates/newtheme/images
Then simply create new images to fit the needs. you can change the color theme by editing the style.css and the admin.css
the admin panel uses a different style sheet.
the layout is stored in multiple TPL files that can easily be altered .
Since im making the software open source i have made it a point to give details on what EVERY line of code is doing.
Also 99% of the text is stored in a language.php file
I did it like this so it will be easy for someone to make different language packs for the software

Fantastic!, then count me on for creating a custom skin :rasp:

Really looking forward to checking out this site!

From where and how do you intend to provide the Custom avatar to the users of the site?

Did you released it?, i'm waiting your script :laugh:. If yes please remember to update this thread with the info about where download it.

Sorry for being so inactive over the last couple weeks. i ran into some personal issues.
Anyhow I'm back in gear now!

wudbb.com is going to be the home of my board.
Anyways i have been plugging away big time to get back on track since i fell way behind and did not deliver on my estimated delivery date.
Most All version 1.0.0 bugs have been worked out that i have found. The current design is VERY POOR and im working extremely hard on getting it looking presentable .
there are also a couple Posting bugs that im pulling my hair out trying to fix.
I'm not sure im going to keep the current bbc writing and more and likely rewrite that ENTIRE part of the script in later versions.
So everyone interested in playing around with this script please BOOKMARK
New Document because the script will be live and ready for download on the 12th of this month.
Regards Brent
WUD Bulletin Board ------- The Insane Mad board

off topic here but did you ever resolve that issue a couple weeks back
The uh issue with the db error?

would it come with mod-rewrite options