Forums are a very hard aspect of a website to monetize. Often, it’s where most of the action takes place and it’s another powerful tool in generating organic traffic through the vast amounts of user generated information that is churned out on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Quite a few sites out there think its fine to place annoying double underlined link scripts all over the forums. I guess that’s fine – whatever rocks your world, even though the majority of users prefer otherwise

If you've ever wondered how to build a simple forum in PHP/Mysql, this simple tutorial will give you the basics of how to post and reply to threads and display messages.