[Gllug] Forum software

[Ian Norton]

whiles at work after 2 years of 'sorry boss, its a waste, people dont use them
anymore' i gave in and wrote one, was quite good. sadly the sources fell prey
to plusnet (deleted my shell and took my subscription - gits) as that was the
cgi server i was developing from, (still have a crippled 0.03 one somewhere)

i wrote it quickly in perl and even data dumper was very fast, you could prolly
knock one out in about 30 days :-)

bred

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Simon Stewart wrote:
> I've been involved with a number of sites where the designers have
> thought "a forum would be really nice". I'm now starting to squeeze
> requirements out of people, and the current show-stoppers are:
> 
> *) The admin of a forums has to be the only one able to add new
> users. Most of the time, that is. "Hiding" the URL isn't going to be
> good enough for this one, I'm afraid.
> 
> *) Different forums need to have different membership lists. User
> names can overlap between these forums (I'm willing to bodge this with
> seperate installs of the forum software, but would prefer not to)
> 
> *) Each forum can have several subforums.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas of suitable software? Ideally, I'd like to avoid
> using something based on PHP, because most of the forum software that
> I've seen written using that is riddled with holes (think:
> PHPNuke. PostNuke is little better) Perl might be fine, as would
> Java. Running on Postgres would be a Good Thing too.
> 
> Currently Jive, Slash and Scoop are the ones that I'm thinking of, but
> none of them really offer the first thing, I believe, and I'm not sure
> how secure they are.
> 
> Haven't really got enough time to write my own, though I'd be willing
> to if I did. That and a Blogger. And a Content Management System.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon
> 
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> Obviously some badly written Perl script.  Someone should tell the author
> about -wTMstrict."  -- Kai Henningsen in the monastery
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