I would have to agree that one of the most important things is to define exactly what is needed and what can be added later. I hate to be working on a project and then a day later realizing that you did the whole thing wrong and need to add something that you didn't think about before, and re-writing everything over again.

In my opinion using a flat-file database wouldn't be the best thing to have because it would be harder to add newer things later down the line when you might want to add more features to the message board.

For admin purposes I would try and implement it so that there would be multiple levels of users or admins incase the job of moderating it yourself takes too much time.

Vizjerai

In reply to Re: Large Project opinion by Vizjerai
in thread Large Project opinion by dkode

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