Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-08-01 Thread Kyle Dawkins
To all who responded to my original post about UBB: thanks. Thanks to all the great feedback, we have decided to punt UBB and are using wwwthreads instead. you might want to look into vBulletin, it is used on a lot of different sites is written in php with a MySQL back end and looks very

Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-08-01 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Kyle Dawkins wrote: having said all that, it's much cheaper than UBB, far superior in overall design, and DB-driven... and it works beautifully, so i can't complain too much. :-) And has at least one major security hole (at least the 3.51 version did, which was the last

Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-28 Thread Joachim Zobel
At 18:16 27.07.01 -0400, you wrote: 1 the quality of [perl] code in UBB is so phenomenally bad i can't believe people pay money for it. i can't believe it works (but it does). has anyone else ever experienced it? i guess i need a support group... it makes me cry and cuts me to the bone when

Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-28 Thread alex
Hi, you might want to look into vBulletin, it is used on a lot of different sites is written in php with a MySQL back end and looks very similar to UBB. yes, but as an engineer i can't condone the use of PHP, sorry... You might want to consider WWWThreads (http://www.wwwthreads.com/). Code

RE: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-28 Thread Les Mikesell
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:42 AM To: kyle dawkins Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz. Hi, you might want to look into vBulletin, it is used on a lot of different sites is written in php with a MySQL back end and looks very

Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-27 Thread kyle dawkins
hey all two reasons for posting this. i am tasked with the job of integrating Ultimate Bulletin Board (or UBB, from http://www.infopop.com) into a client's site. they have an existing user database of many many thousands of users, and they want all these users to be able to read and post in

Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-27 Thread Tom Servo
i am tasked with the job of integrating Ultimate Bulletin Board (or UBB, from http://www.infopop.com) into a client's site. they have an I'm sorry. We were running the UBB for a while and have had a few headaches. 1. the quality of [perl] code in UBB is so phenomenally bad i can't

Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-27 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Tom Servo wrote: i am tasked with the job of integrating Ultimate Bulletin Board (or UBB, from http://www.infopop.com) into a client's site. they have an 2. any problems with it under mod_perl? I have it running fine under PerlRun but I am not so sure it'll behave under Registry. I

Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-27 Thread Sander van Zoest
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, kyle dawkins wrote: 1. the quality of [perl] code in UBB is so phenomenally bad i can't believe people pay money for it. i can't believe it works (but it does). has anyone else ever experienced it? i guess i need a support group... it makes me cry and cuts me to

Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-27 Thread kyle dawkins
Sander van Zoest wrote: At mp3.com, we ran UBB for the first year or so and ended up totally rewriting the bottom end to make it perform better and actually make it semi-secure. Finally we ended up getting rid of it for some other in house code. i am worried that i'm going to have to do