[mb-users] Re: Bulletin Boards, yet another discussion?! :)

[Lukáš Lalinský]

Steve Wyles wrote:
> I would keep well away from the PHP based forum solutions, many of them
> have had security issues in the past and they are common targets for
> people wanting to gain access to the system it is running on.

You are quite generalizing, aren't you? PHP is very far from perfect language,
but that doesn't automatically mean that all software written in it is
vulnerable. All high-traffic forums I know about run on PHP solutions (Ubuntu
Forums, Gentoo Forums, Hydrogen Audio, ... and ehm, for example also Last.fm).

I think we should choose the forum software by the features it provides, not the
language it's written in. My personal favorite is either PunBB or E-Blah. But
for example two probably the most mature (free) Perl projects, E-Blah and YaBB,
use flat files to store the data. I don't believe this is a good solution for
high-traffic forums.

-Lukáš