[Wolves] Mailing lists and web forums

Jon Farmer wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Jan 9 15:17:00 2003


> God, no, don't do that. You don't have to know how to write to the
database;
> PHPNuke already knows that better than anyone. Instead, the script
pretends
> to be a web browser and posts the message to the web form on the website.
> That way we never have to change the script if the Nuke crew change their
> db...


Presumably if they change the DB schema then they almost certainly would
change the HTML which would break your script in a lot of cases. I would
suggest it would be much better in the long run to write a custom module for
PHPNuke to do the job you require.


Jon

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