honestly... how hard can it be?

[eluser]ICEcoffee[/eluser]
@Xeoncross:

checkout Drupal's forum (if you are not familiar with it already), that'll give you an Idea at what I am looking at to start off with. The 'new post/edit' class need only be a basic form with basic HTML controls, and I'd be happy.

The other reason for keeping something very basic (apart from my skill level), is that it would be easier to provide hooks for people to, well... hook on their own auth/acl etc, assuming I deciding to go the 'roll-your-own' route and give it to the Codeigniter community, which I would be happy to do.