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Re: Large chunks of text - database or filesystem?by TedPride (Priest) |
on Mar 20, 2005 at 04:47 UTC ( [id://440984]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Using a generic forum has the following pros and cons:
Pros:
Cons: It'll probably be easier in the long run to roll my own. And more educational. EDIT: I would use a generic forum for a small site, but a larger site like ours is going to get regular spam attacks and a heck of a lot more posts, and I need to be able to get more hands-on with the inner workings. I can't afford to take a week to fix an immediate problem. EDIT: In Matt's defense, he did update WWWBoard to fix security holes, though the script still only works for single boards and still looks ugly. I had to rewrite like half the code to add multi-board support, a better design, more elaborate error messages, and checking against lists of banned words and IPs. It was my first introduction to Perl.
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