[dogscoff]

Thanks Fyron, I don't know what we'd all do without you.

It's all looking good. It looks like I have the choice of hosting it on my webspace or letting my friends do it for themselves, since both ISPs support php and mySQL. Once my new adsl account kicks in I'll have a hundred megs of webspace to play with, so I'm strongly tempted to do it myself rather than faff about trying to get access to their webspace or install it by-proxy.

For a pound a month I might even register a domain specifically for the bulletin board.

Thanks again for the help F, I may be back later with more questions.