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Simple Notice Board with WYSIWYG-Editor

By Christoph Doelle - Jan. 25, 2008

Hello,

I am looking for an open source notice board that is very easy to use (WYSIWYG-Editor) and that features expiring dates for the messages. i want to use it as a "market place" where people can offer whatever they want to sell/give away so it should be possible to include pictures with every "notice". As there won't be a lot of offers, it would be enough if the offers where just diplayed one after the other with the newest one at the top, rather (in terms of looks) like a blog. I even considere using open source blogs but none of those I found feature expiring dates.

Looking forward to replys.

PS: I'm not the one setting up the website, so I don't really know much about building websites. I'm just the one trying to find a possible solution, so don't expect too much knowledge on htlm, etc from me :-).


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  1. By Anna Medlin on Jan. 30, 2008

    Hmm... Well, are you looking for some kind of ecommerce storefront too? If you simply want a listing service, you can start with a bulletin board like phpbb (www.phpbb.com). Check the modifications to see if there is one for 'expiration' of posts. If not, it ought to be fairly easy to develop a plugin that will do this.

    phpbb comes with a wysiwyg editor. Not sure about adding the date in there, but if you develop a plugin, you can quite easily add this in.

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  2. By Adam Bailey on Jan. 31, 2008

    When you say 'expiring messages', what do you want the behavior to be? Do you wish the 'post' to be locked, with no more 'responses'? Do you wish the post to be removed? Do you wish the 'poster' to be informed?

    Also, what environment is this going to be launched in? Windows/Linux? Any programming language preferences?

    I doubt you will find anything that works out of the box, but, as medlin mentioned, you can easily customize opensource or paid solutions out there without much ado. You will probably want to do some customization around 'look and feel' anyway...

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  3. By John Dixon on Oct. 08, 2009

    I know this is a blatant plug, but a free online notice board is available at http://www.dixondevelopment.co.uk/notice-board.htm


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