Re: What do people think of the YaBB forum script?

Yes, there are some scary things in YaBB1, but YaBB2 is currently in progress.

It uses MySQL as a database mainly and will use text files via DBD::AnyData later on. It also uses strict and -w. YaBB2 will also include a mod_perl version, which I'm pretty sure no large BBS has done yet.

You can check out the sources here if you really want to:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yabb/YaBB/

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Re^2: What do people think of the YaBB forum script? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 23, 2002 at 17:13 UTC
If by mod_perl version you mean Apache::Registry friendly scripts, then both ikonBoard and UBB v6.x already offer that. If however YaBB2 implements real Apache request handlers, that would be a novelty indeed. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re^2: What do people think of the YaBB forum script? by rchiav (Deacon) on Sep 26, 2002 at 01:58 UTC
ikonBoard really doesn't play nice with mod_perl. There's an attempt to support it, but it's not there yet. I just pulled down v3.11 this week to evaluate it, and I still haven't gotten it to run properly under mod_perl. It runs great as a cgi app though. If anyone wants to try to hack it to make it run better under mod_perl, I'd suggest installing it asa cgi app first. If you don't, the installer doesn't support mod_perl at all. You'll have to touch installer.(cgi\|pl) after each step so it recompiles and runs properly. Code appears to be written well... great functionality as a cgi, but mod_perl support just isn't there yet.	[reply]
Re: Re^2: What do people think of the YaBB forum script? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 24, 2002 at 04:56 UTC
Yes, real request handlers. No easy configuration yet but I figure anyone wanting to use mod_perl will know what they're doing.	[reply]