in reply to OT: Need opinion on building a forum

Just some quick thoughts:

As for the free perl-based board YaBB seems to be feature filled and about what you are looking for. But you may spend as much time integrating things like users and sessions as you would using a framework.

As to the from scratch option, I wouldn't do it all the way from scratch. Catalyst should be a good starting point as a framework and if your existing code isn't bad it should be fairly easy to integrate the two (especially if you were good and used a templating system like Template Toolkit (or others) to build your original site).

If that doesn't seem like a good fit, then start with CGI::Application and Template Toolkit. This will give you more flexibility than Catalyst but it'll take longer.

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Re^2: OT: Need opinion on building a forum
by fmerges (Chaplain) on Nov 12, 2006 at 21:14 UTC

    Hi,

    I would suggest to help on the development of Parley, a Catalyst based Forum app., instead of writing one from scratch...

    Regards,

    fmerges at irc.freenode.net
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Re^2: OT: Need opinion on building a forum
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Nov 13, 2006 at 18:38 UTC

    YaBB is no longer being maintained, they switched over to PHP and became Simple Machines. I would recommend Ikonboard, it's written in perl and looks pretty good to me.

    Also, I'm working on some forum software (needs some updating, ignore 500 errors and such) myself.../msg me if you'd like to get involved.

    P.S: it's going to take more than 3-4 days work to get a fairly functional board up...be warned.

    meh.
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      YaBB is no longer being maintained, they switched over to PHP and became Simple Machines.

      According to the YaBB website they just released a new version 5 days ago (11/8/06).

      grep
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        Weird! I thought I read on the website that they discontinued their work on it. Apparently i was mistaken.

        meh.
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