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Be sure to checkout the CGI resource index website, it has quite a few free message board packages.

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Bulletin_Board_Message_Systems/

Finally, something that ran on both Windows (IIS) and Linux (Apache) would be nice but I suspect that is not compatible with database backend.

The choice of web server and platform shouldn't have much to do with the database backend, in a well designed system anyway.

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Re: Re: Recommendations for message board software
by flyingmoose (Priest) on Jan 20, 2004 at 13:52 UTC

    I can second YABB (http://yabbforum.com) in terms of ease of installation, configuration, and features. We recently installed this for some collaborative work in my organization and it seems very useful.

    Of course, it's Perl. I have yet to glance at any of the code though, so I can't vouch for quality/elegance/etc. The person who set it up used the basic flat-file mode, we need to switch to a database backend soon (which should be very doable).

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Re: Re: Recommendations for message board software
by hardburn (Abbot) on Jan 20, 2004 at 14:22 UTC

    CGI Resources is full of Matt Wright wannabees. I'm sure there are a few good CGIs in there, but you'll have to dig throught a lot of trash to find them.

    ----
    I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
    -- Schemer

    : () { :|:& };:

    Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated

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      Each project listed has a vote count, much like PM's XP, I can see YaBB and Discus have the most votes. Worth to give them a try. :-)

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