Bojangles
07-11-2002, 08:04 AM
Is there such a thing anymore as Forums that use Flat Files and my sql or mysql. I would be interested to know.
I know this is most likely not the right forum for this post but I dunno where else to post and as you guys are always full of the best info I can gather from the internet I felt this was the best place to ask.
Thanks
Angel78
07-11-2002, 08:11 AM
phorum.org used to have a flat file option but long time ago if i remmember correctly, but that is a bad idea :)
edude
07-11-2002, 12:17 PM
Isn't YaBB one? www.yabb.org
Bojangles
07-11-2002, 12:20 PM
I dunno went to the link you provided and nothing there at all. Not even a web page. So I don't think I'll ever know now !!
edude
07-11-2002, 12:30 PM
http://www.yabbforum.com/
Steve-PWH
07-12-2002, 06:27 AM
Flat File databases are ineficent
Better using MySQL
But if you still what on
iKonboard can use a DBM flatfile system
Gurudev
07-12-2002, 04:01 PM
If you are looking for a flatfile forum, I would recommend http://www.discusware.com - it does not have great features but does the job nicely and works well for small-medium forums. One advantage of this software is that all pages are static and hence there is very minimal load on your server. Cgi is only used in searching, etc., The other huge advantage of this one is that all pages are also indexed by search engines because they are static. They also have a new version which stores the search queries in a mySQL database.
Also, just because a software uses mySQL database, it is not necessarily efficient than a flatfile system. It depends a lot on how the script was written. I have seen scripts using SQL databases which are server hogs and I have seen efficient flatfile systems. Not to mention, the load put on your server each time a SQL database is queried. Depends on your needs, small forums work fine with flatfile.
cyansmoker
07-12-2002, 09:42 PM
I guess Bojangle''s problem is that he doesn't have access to a database.
In that case I would, after reading Steve's post, highly recommend that you use ikonboard, since DBM *is* a database format and your problem would be solved.
On a different note, I have at least one customer who uses discusware with 5-10 simultaneous users and it's not killing the server...
