I am sponsoring a website for a non profit and am looking for forum
software. Understand I am knew to this and learning on the fly.

I have found several freeware and licensed alternatives with lots of
features but I keep reading abut the vulnerability of php to attack. My web
developer is most used to asp.net with a MYSQL DB but also has reservations
about php.

Advice appreciated.

Missy wrote:
> I am sponsoring a website for a non profit and am looking for forum
> software. Understand I am knew to this and learning on the fly.
>
> I have found several freeware and licensed alternatives with lots of
> features but I keep reading abut the vulnerability of php to attack. My we
b
> developer is most used to asp.net with a MYSQL DB but also has reservation
s
> about php.
>
> Advice appreciated.

PHP is pretty safe to be honest. So long as you keep up to date with
patches I'd go with PHP. I've used PHPBB on several commercial projects.


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> I am sponsoring a website for a non profit and am looking for forum
> software. Understand I am knew to this and learning on the fly.
>
> I have found several freeware and licensed alternatives with lots of
> features but I keep reading abut the vulnerability of php to attack. My we
b
> developer is most used to asp.net with a MYSQL DB but also has reservation
s
> about php.
>
> Advice appreciated.
>

www.whatforum.co.uk has a list of them - but the trick seems to picking
one that isnt as popular or well known as phpbb .

SMF is the flavour of the month and to be quite honest it has more
options that phpbb and does several things better than phpbb .

SpaceGirl <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote:

> Missy wrote: 
>
> PHP is pretty safe to be honest.

The sad thing is that many applications written in are not. Also, it's
easy to break things in PHP. Some programs even *require* you to break
things, otherwise they don't work.

> So long as you keep up to date with
> patches I'd go with PHP. I've used PHPBB on several commercial
> projects.

phpBB is notorious for it's security issues. The good thing about that is
that it's often fixed very fast.

I've written a script that I run daily for one of the phpBB boards I
maintain (well, I almost maintain 3, since some friends keep breaking
theirs) which makes a backup:

http://johnbokma.com/perl/phpbb-remote-backup.html

Some people who break into message boards like to drop some tables, or
worse.

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"Missy" <missyroospoogiefunk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:grcr73ns2kpt.ws7t689p78ff$.dlg@40tude.net...
>I am sponsoring a website for a non profit and am looking for forum
> software. Understand I am knew to this and learning on the fly.
>
> I have found several freeware and licensed alternatives with lots of
> features but I keep reading abut the vulnerability of php to attack. My
> web
> developer is most used to asp.net with a MYSQL DB but also has
> reservations
> about php.
>
> Advice appreciated.

I used PHPBB exclusively until my ISP mysteriously had issues arise where
PHP didn't work anymore. I switched to Web Wiz Forums, and have customized
them to meet my needs. It's all ASP, and easy to work with, IMHO. I now use
my own customized version of Web Wiz for everything.

BV
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:54:28 +0000, SpaceGirl wrote:

> PHP is pretty safe to be honest. So long as you keep up to date with
> patches I'd go with PHP. I've used PHPBB on several commercial projects.

Everything I read seems to agree with you re: the patches, SG, thanks.
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On 14 Dec 2005 21:18:57 GMT, John Bokma wrote:
 
>
> The sad thing is that many applications written in are not. Also, it's
> easy to break things in PHP. Some programs even *require* you to break
> things, otherwise they don't work.
 
>
> phpBB is notorious for it's security issues. The good thing about that is
> that it's often fixed very fast.
>
> I've written a script that I run daily for one of the phpBB boards I
> maintain (well, I almost maintain 3, since some friends keep breaking
> theirs) which makes a backup:
>
> http://johnbokma.com/perl/phpbb-remote-backup.html
>
> Some people who break into message boards like to drop some tables, or
> worse.

Thanks for the link, John. Q?, did you mean prewritten php sites? Like this
one?

http://support.phpbbfm.net/index_fm.php

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:18:26 -0000, Krustov wrote:

> www.whatforum.co.uk has a list of them - but the trick seems to picking
> one that isnt as popular or well known as phpbb .
>
> SMF is the flavour of the month and to be quite honest it has more
> options that phpbb and does several things better than phpbb .

The concern I have (thanks for the link) is that 75% of our users will be
on dialup. Is swf any slower when loading?
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:54:28 -0500, BenignVanilla wrote:

> I used PHPBB exclusively until my ISP mysteriously had issues arise where
> PHP didn't work anymore. I switched to Web Wiz Forums, and have customized
> them to meet my needs. It's all ASP, and easy to work with, IMHO. I now us
e
> my own customized version of Web Wiz for everything.

I Googled for web whiz forums and came up with nothing, do you have a link?

Missy <missyroospoogiefunk@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the link, John. Q?, did you mean prewritten php sites? Like
> this one?
>
> http://support.phpbbfm.net/index_fm.php

I don't understand the question: if phpBB has a security issue, it's very
possible that spin offs that use the same code base, but add features
(and/or remove) have exactly the same issue.

In this group there is/was a thread on:

http://www.google.com/search?q=phpbb

some crackers use google to find phpbb message boards automatically.

Google blocking this and related queries really makes you wonder (well, it
does make me).

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