[TriLUG] forum

[Brian Daniels]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:59:51PM -0400, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> I've been looking for an open source BB/Forums application.
> Several days of googling has turned up some options but not a winner.
> 
> I've been hoping for something written in Java, that runs as a servlet,
> and works with either a flat file or MySQL.  Also, I need to be able to
> provide a public and a private forum (some full featured cripple-ware
> only allows 1) and assign an administrative role to a few users.  This
> is for non-commercial use so it comes out of my pocketbook. 
> 


Can't help you with the Java requirement, but we've been happy with phpBB.  
It's currently running against a MySQL db, and supporting 247 customers.

--Brian


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