Don't take this the wrong way cause everyone has to start some where but, i doubt your going to be able to build your own forum system any time soon. You won't have near the experience to make it secure and fast. Why do you need ot make your own there are plenty of free ones? Also w3schools has a decent tutorial. No no, I said that wrong. I want to put the PHP code on this forum. I doubt that. Ask the admins.