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OT: Need opinion on building a forumby Anonymous Monk |
on Nov 11, 2006 at 22:19 UTC ( [id://583523]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi,
I have this online community that desperately needs a forum. I built the online community from scratch and its either A.) I find a perl cgi forum script out there and customize it OR B.) just build one from scratch. The thought of Option B didn't even come to my mind when I realized there aren't that good forum systems written in perl out there thats freeware. I'm looking for a forum script using DBI and MySQL, but it seems like most ones cost around 200-400 bucks. I don't need an advanced forum, something that can keep track of conversations and have 10-12 emotion icons. Since I built my community from scratch and it already has the member sign up, session management, and phpMyadmin to control the sites db, I feel like adding a forum wouldn't be too hard. Or am I wrong? Is there more to a simple forum then I thought. I'm visioning the steps I would need to create my forum, and it really seems like 3-4 days work. I realized this may take the same exact amount of time as downloading a free script out there and hacking it up to my liking. Any opinions or advice will be appreciated. Thanks
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