for the lazy :) http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlbb/
(to OP: the Project->WebSite link of http://perlbb.sourceforge.net/ doesn't work)

If the only requirement is "no separate database application needed", why not SQLite or BerkeleyDB or something indexable? How will you provide the desired scalability with just XML files?

You may want to strongly consider supporting multiple databases .. if use DBI (DBD::AnyData supports XML), and don't do anything db-specific in your SQL, it will simply be a matter of letting the user specifiy a different DSN in the config -- it might appeal to users to be able to use their existing postgres/oracle/mySQL/SQLServer/whatever database.

Going DBI (as opposed to creating your own stuff that wraps a XML parser/writer module) will also let you, if you choose, leverage an abstract layer like Class::DBI or DBIx::Class or others.

In reply to Re: perlBB project by davidrw
in thread perlBB project by serious_steven

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