By popular request, I took a look at ikonBoard. The version I checked is the brand new 3.11.

My first look made me grimace:

$SIG{__WARN__} = sub {
   my $wn = shift;
   return if $wn =~ /Use of uninitialized value/i;    #Most annoying
   return if $wn =~ /name "(?:.+?)" used only once/i; #Very annoying
   warn $wn;
};

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Ugh. We're off to a grand start. No taint mode either. But strict! Well, it wants to be mod_perl compliant..

The codebase is pretty large so I didn't examine it as closely as YaBB's, even though I spent a lot more time looking at this one. However, the more I looked, the more it made up for the initially awful impression. The global configuration variables have been stuck into package iB and there's no other globals - parameters are passed as subroutine arguments. Great. Its SQL bindings modules appear to be carefully proofed against SQL injection attempts.

There is no central input validation instance, but wherever I looked data seems to get validated, somehow or other, at one point or other, in safe fashion. It still leaves me with the uneasy feeling in the stomach that a developer may overlook a variable or other and open up a hole, but in contrast to the YaBB team they do seem to have a healthy distrust for external input.

At this point, I feel I can recommend ikonBoard in good consciousness as a suitable messageboard engine.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: How about Ikonboard? by Aristotle
in thread What do people think of the YaBB forum script? by kiat

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