To get started we should first discuss some proper terminology. A message board is really a set of containers for sorting data. On our board we will have the ability to first create categories. A category is the highest level of container and therefore will have a very generic topic. Each category can hold as many forums as is needed. The forum is related to the top level category's subject but is slightly more specific. In each forum we can have a number of threads. Each thread is a very specific subject that users can discuss. The discussion is performed with posts that are simply replies to the containing thread or a post on the thread.

Here is our message board landing page, which lists each category and its forums:

Here is our forum page, which lists all of the available threads for that forum:

Here is a thread that would also have a list of its posts:

As you may have guessed, the topic of a message board is a very large one. We will go over the basics of creating a message board...