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Add Bulletin Board

by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 17, 2003 at 13:38 UTC ( [id://300005]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,
I'd like to add a bullitin board to my website. I do perl as a hobby and was wondering if you guys could suggest to me how you would add a bulletin board if you needed one. WOuld you use ikonboard or something like that, are there perl modules I could use, or would you build one from scratch.
Thanks.

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Re: Add Bulletin Board
by jeffa (Bishop) on Oct 17, 2003 at 13:46 UTC

    If this was for a client, i would pick a an existing solution that allows you to configure it. It doesn't matter to me if the bulletin board was coded in Perl, PHP, or Python, as long as i can install it, configure it to my needs, and it can handle a fairly large amount of traffic.

    If this was for my own needs, i would still probably pick an existing solution, but if i were just wanting to learn how bulletin boards worked, i would code my own. In Perl with lots of CPAN modules. :) (i would try to incorporate Template with Class::DBI.)

    For the record, i have succussfully used Infopop's Ultimate Bulletin Board in the past ... but that was for a paying client. I am sure there are decent free solutions out there.

    jeffa

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Re: Add Bulletin Board
by moxliukas (Curate) on Oct 17, 2003 at 13:43 UTC

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