On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:37:23AM -0800, Toby|Wintrmute wrote: > Ello, > > I need to setup a message board / forum thing, and I want something that runs > on Perl/DBI(::Pg) or Perl/Pg .. (or just a simple dirs+textfiles backend) > > Freshmeat has 187 projects listed: > http://freshmeat.net/browse/95/?topic_id=95 > > Most seem to MySQL based, or else don't specify what they use as a backend at > all. There are an awful lot of them, and it's hard to tell what's good or not > without trying them out.. and i don't want to spend weeks before choosing one. > > I just wondered if anyone here has some reccommendations? > > Would prefer Perl, but PHP system would be fine too.
If you insist on Perl, then Gossamer Forum - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/gforum/index.htm looks like the best bet. It costs $200 for commercial use, but is free for non-commercial use. Otherwise, Phorum - http://phorum.org/ is meant to be good. PHP and PostgreSQL. I've used it a bit, a version or two back, and found it to be quite neat. No idea about potential bugs tho. Wouldn't something like Scoop/Slash/Squishdot/... do you okay? Or something based on Midgard? > ta, > > Toby /joel
