Originally Posted by playbox12

Is this a suggestion for these forums or are you wondering how to do this for your own? For the latter I'd suggest you look at the various plugins and modules for your desired forum software. For the MySQL bit, most forums use it, while there are many other possibilities, for a decent sized forum you don't really want to use flat-file or sql lite (while sql lite is still a powerfull option). Adding to that, it doesn't really matter what system is used, all can be used to do what you want.