I use Ikonboard on my site and I was able to figureout how it work just by looking at the source(its all in perl). This may seem like a big task at first, but you should find they are layed out logicly.

I'm not sure about UBB, we use it at work and I think its about the same. if your looking for a module look at http://search.cpan.com If you cant find one there its most likely that one does not exist.

If that is the case make one and and upload it to cpan :)

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