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jkeywell
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Post by jkeywell »

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
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Post by lazy_yogi »

phpBB is excellent, looks great and is incredibly east to install & use
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phpBB is an amaizing product.. check over here for some other examples: http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_S ... e_Systems/
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Post by volka »

btw: it's the board you're currently using ;)
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Post by McGruff »

PhpBB is great - but it can be slow. Not too bad in this site though: what's your secret?
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Post by jason »

McGruff: I use the make_faster() function.

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<?php
make_faster(true);
?>
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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Post by hob_goblin »

I always liked this snippet of code to make my forums faster:

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if($_SERVER&#1111;'speed'] == SLOW)&#123;
make_faster(TRUE);
&#125;
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. :D


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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Post by phice »

They really need to release a conversion pack for Invision Board. ;/
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Post by volka »

maybe microsoft will integerate such a feature in their conversion tools after they've invented and released their new scripting langugage phphp ;)
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