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Experienced Advice Needed

posted by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @03:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the slashcode-will-solve-all-your-problems dept.

technopoptart writes:

"I need advice from people more experienced that I am with open source forum software. I am going to be setting up a forum system for computer science students from the various colleges in the area.

I have been running a closed SMF forum for my wife for a year. I wanted to solicit advice about SMF or any other systems that I may consider. I have played with phpBB but I found it labor intensive, as newly created sections are made invisible even to the admin by default, I don't want a laborious permissions system. I appreciate any advice you can give."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by crutchy on Saturday February 22 2014, @06:24PM

    by crutchy (179) on Saturday February 22 2014, @06:24PM (#4981) Homepage Journal

    I gotta agree about the perl thing. PHP as much as it gets bagged a lot is quick, easy, and forgiving.
    I prefer to write my own stuff (no third party stuff off the interwebs) but there are probably a lot of good forums out there.

    phpbb3 is in debian's repos so i would probably trust it over anything just downloaded generally off the web.

    The soylent slashcode has too many folders. I know folders are useful for some stuff, but I just use gedit for development and if I need to quickly open a file I don't want to be hunting through ten levels of directories. At least if there is a heap of files in a single directory I can type the start of the name and the file browser will take me there.

    Templating is useful, but I'm of the opinion that if it makes the application a heap more complicated then the benefits of templating are eroded.

    If it's for CS students, maybe something like FusionForge (available in debian repos as gforge).

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 22 2014, @07:06PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday February 22 2014, @07:06PM (#5001)

    PHP as much as it gets bagged a lot is quick, easy, and forgiving.

    The last thing you want for a web programming language is to be forgiving. The more forgiving it is, the more likely your mistakes will turn into security holes.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 0) by crutchy on Saturday February 22 2014, @08:40PM

      by crutchy (179) on Saturday February 22 2014, @08:40PM (#5024) Homepage Journal

      The last thing you want for a web programming language is to be forgiving. The more forgiving it is, the more likely your mistakes will turn into security holes.

      true, but if it's not forgiving enough nobody will use it (or pay for it)