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CDB Entry: Powerful Web Bulletin Board: phpBB (oh and it is free!)

Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:08:46 -0700

I was recently looking for a package to implement a discussion board for a group project, and luckily came across phpBB :: Creating Communities. phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has...

comment by: Michelle Lamberson

Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:40:01 -0700

Way too weird... I saw the same thing today!

Do you know if this program could be installed on a Mac server?

Michelle

comment by: Alan Levine

Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:18:00 -0700

No reason why not- it is just PHP and mySQL, and OSX is liveing, breathing unix.

You may find that the default install of PHP on Mac is not active (it is off by default, and has some quirks)- the best reosurce for gettting this up and running is Marc Liyanage's Mac OSX software under "Unix Ports Packages" (lo and behold, his support forum runs in phpBB!):
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/

Whe you get mySQL up and running, it is very worth it to set up phpMyAdmin to do your database functions, unless you are a command-line junkie:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

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Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:47:04 -0700

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