Re: Re: Very Basic Perl Forum

[moodster]

UBB has been discussed previously, both here and on usenet (do a google search), and the verdict seems to be that it pretty much sucks. Sloppy coding practices, etc. I would stay away from it.

Unfortunatly, I don't have any better suggestions. I installed PostNuke on my work machine yesterday and it seems pretty capable (and easy to install provided that you've got MySql and PHP running). But it's not a perl solution, no.

Writing your own forums software is certainly doable, but far from trivial.

Cheers,
-- moodster

[IlyaM]

There exist quite good Perl forum named gForum. It does play nicely with mod_perl, supports SQL backend, is easily extendable with plugins written in Perl and its source code doesn't suck too much (I had to integrate its authorization with customer website so I've spent some time reading gForum sources and writting plugin for it).

Disclamer: of course I don't work for them :).

--
Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

[Aristotle]

Actually writing a messageboard script (suite) is pretty trivial at least if you interface with a database (flatfiles are ok but you have to be tricky if you want it to scale well with a large messagebase) - it's just a whole lot of work.

If anyone wants to have a look, I suggest ikonBoard v3 - free and seems to be decent Perl. (And just like IlyaM, I don't work for them.)