Creating a Message Board with Stratos
by Larry Kubin
In this tutorial, we will develop a flat style message board application that is similar to the popular phpBB (obviously, it will not be as feature-rich, since this is only a tutorial). This tutorial assumes that you have already successfully installed the Stratos PHP Framework on your server. If you have not already done so, follow the installation instructions to get Stratos up and running on your server.
For the development of our message board, we will use the ubiquitous MySQL for our database. If you happen to hate MySQL, feel free to use the database of your choice, whether it be Oracle, PostgreSQL, or one of the other databases supported by PEAR DB. If you do not already have a MySQL database that you would like to use for this tutorial, use the tool of your choice (e.g. command line, phpMyAdmin, or cPanel) to create a new MySQL database.
The tutorial is divided into the following sections:
