In this chapter we created the core features of a message board—categories, forums, threads, and posts. Along with these features we have also heavily implemented friendly URLs to help our content be more SEO friendly. This should feed the various search engine spiders effectively. In order to spread the word about our new content we have also integrated our message board section into our alert service. This takes each new post and broadcasts its arrival to homepages of friends of each of the posting user.

As discussed earlier, the subject of message boards is a large one. While we implemented a great foundation this section is by no means feature complete. If you look at the many options for forums and message boards on the market you will quickly notice that there are many other features that you could implement on top of what we built. This is a great start though!