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.
To not answer the question, Practical Internet Groupware by O'Reilly is an interesting read on general concepts like this, if a little dated now. I would also go along with a NNTP server being my choice, but this can cause problems (one of the chief ones being Outlook (not express) doesn't support NNTP). A final point, I've found the faq-o-matic to be a very useful work resource, if you can get everyone using it. JP
