I haven't looked at the source of Matt's message board myself, but I recall that on comp.lang.perl.misc about a year ago, there was an extended thread familiy dealing with security holes in it.

Besides that, the phrases "no DB" and "their own HTML files" make me wonder about unnecessary complexity and scalability. Just about any recent version of Perl has dbfile support in various flavors, and it's easy to use. See tie, dbmopen and dbmclose.

You might take a look at Matt's message board for a general idea of structure, but I suspect that you'll have a better time writing your own from scratch than trying to fix design flaws and security holes and manage threading with his version.

Or you could search on Freshmeat for any of a dozen variants on the theme.

In reply to Re: simple message board gone very wrong? by chromatic
in thread simple message board gone very wrong? by jptxs

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