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Hi there!
I am trying to replace a perl based non-databse bulletin board system with a php/mysql system. There are so many out there. Can you please recommend which one is best and why?
Thanks for your opinion.
Julie
I am trying to replace a perl based non-databse bulletin board system with a php/mysql system. There are so many out there. Can you please recommend which one is best and why?
Thanks for your opinion.
Julie
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yep
phpBB is an amaizing product.. check over here for some other examples: http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_S ... e_Systems/
McGruff: I use the make_faster() function.
Seriously, it's probably several things.
1. ImHosted was nice enough to give us a faster server so the site wouldn't slow down.
2. Gzip compression is on.
3. Updated PHP install. (Currently on PHP 4.3)
I find many boards slow these days.
phpBB is a good forum(http://www.phpbb.com). Invision Board is supposed to be good as well. (http://www.invisionboard.com/). vBulletin has a lot of features that make it nice for commercial boards, at least last time I checked (http://www.vbulletin.com).
And then there is the new forum I will be working on, a Distributed Forum that will be the first of it's kind. (vaporware right now) But it will probably replace these forums eventually, simply because of what it's being designed for, 1 Forum on many, different, sites.
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<?php
make_faster(true);
?>1. ImHosted was nice enough to give us a faster server so the site wouldn't slow down.
2. Gzip compression is on.
3. Updated PHP install. (Currently on PHP 4.3)
I find many boards slow these days.
phpBB is a good forum(http://www.phpbb.com). Invision Board is supposed to be good as well. (http://www.invisionboard.com/). vBulletin has a lot of features that make it nice for commercial boards, at least last time I checked (http://www.vbulletin.com).
And then there is the new forum I will be working on, a Distributed Forum that will be the first of it's kind. (vaporware right now) But it will probably replace these forums eventually, simply because of what it's being designed for, 1 Forum on many, different, sites.
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I always liked this snippet of code to make my forums faster:
That way, if the server is already fast, you won't have to try to speed it up for no reason! Saves alot of cycles.
Well, yeah, anyways. phpBB is great, and i've never had any speed problems, as long as you don't get a crappy host. Also you can check out http://www.phpbbhacks.com to get a lot of hacks, and it also has some forum converters, incase you want to roll your old forums over to phpBB and keep all the users/posts.
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if($_SERVERї'speed'] == SLOW){
make_faster(TRUE);
}Well, yeah, anyways. phpBB is great, and i've never had any speed problems, as long as you don't get a crappy host. Also you can check out http://www.phpbbhacks.com to get a lot of hacks, and it also has some forum converters, incase you want to roll your old forums over to phpBB and keep all the users/posts.
