Can someone please help program a forum for us?

[Cammy]

Hi Gunnar!

The Natami forum does indeed work perfectly in IBrowse, I read it on my A1200 every day, even if I haven't had much of a chance to post yet, sorry. I promise to introduce myself there soon.

I would be honoured if you could help us with our own forum. I was wondering if it would be possible to have avatars? I know they're not used on the Natami forum, but I'm not sure if that is by choice or a limitation of the forum software. I hope that we can have avatars on the Underground Arcade forum, I think they're cute and help me remember people.

We also seem to have lost our domain and old website, and I'm not sure if any of the offers to host and register our site for us still stand.

[biggun]

Hi Gunnar!
We also seem to have lost our domain and old website, and I'm not sure if any of the offers to host and register our site for us still stand.

We have our own servers for hosting the website, hosting bug-trackers and development repositories.
I'll ask Thomas if its ok to  co-host your stuff too.

[Gary McCulloch]

How about having an area in a BBS to discuss your venture?

[Cammy]

Forget about this, we're not going to do it any more.

Stupid idea has been cursed for years.

[Karlos]

We have a bunch of programmers, graphic artists and musicians lined up and waiting to get into the forum, but we still need to find someone who can program it for us, remembering that it can't use CSS so that it's compatible with IBrowse.

Without meaning to sound glib, you have programmers lined up but nobody among them that has any web application experience?

[Cammy]

Yeah, crazy as it sounds, they specialise in Blitz Basic, AmigaE and things but no one knows PHP. Anyway we don't need an Amiga games development forum anymore so it doesn't matter.

[Karlos]

Yeah, crazy as it sounds, they specialise in Blitz Basic, AmigaE and things but no one knows PHP.

Unfortunate. In my experience, most programmers end up knowing several languages and PHP is syntactically not a million miles from C.

Anyway we don't need an Amiga games development forum anymore so it doesn't matter.

Pity. I take it you have an alternative?

[Cammy]

No, I just think it's time to lay the idea to rest and move on.

[kolla]

What prevents anyone from writing a web forum in Blizz Basic or Amiga E btw? It's not like PHP is the only language of the web, to put it mildly

[Karlos]

What prevents anyone from writing a web forum in Blizz Basic or Amiga E btw? It's not like PHP is the only language of the web, to put it mildly

CGI binaries can be written in just about anything, but I suspect you'd want to use something that can produce valid binaries for your chosen server.