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What technology is used for this board? (1st Feb 08 at 11:34pm UTC)
Ross, Is it still CGI like proboards. Or is it php or something else? The url does not show. Thank you.
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (1st Feb 08 at 11:46pm UTC)
It's PHP
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 12:14am UTC)
I can work with PHP!!
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 12:32am UTC)
Well done, So can I
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 12:35am UTC)
But the images and basic structure of this forum still resembles proboards. I know Ross is a mod there. Did he purchase a license from patrick?
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 12:38am UTC)
Not at all. They are all (PB, CF & SL) based on a version of a free forum software called YABB ... Ross simply used that. They all have the same ROOT, but are in no way connected! when the skin comp is over, we'll look different!
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 12:42am UTC)
cool Wrighty. Is switching to a more generic gTLD like.com,.net,.org part of the plan?
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 12:43am UTC)
I doubt it. This is a UK based company. Ross is from the UK, so chances are .co.uk will remain. Is there any advantage of a .com or other over a .co.uk?
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 12:44am UTC)
There's no technical advantage. Just some marketing advantage Wrighty.
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 1:18am UTC)
Well then chances are that we will remain with .co.uk only.
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 10:21am UTC)
Posted By Michael on 2nd Feb 08 at 12:38am Not at all. They are all (PB, CF & SL) based on a version of a free forum software called YABB ... Ross simply used that. I've never even used YaBB. The entire system was hand coded from scratch. The only reason there is a resemblance is because that's the layout I'm familiar with. We're a .co.uk for 2 reasons. Firstly because we are a UK based company and as such are targeting more UK based users. And secondly by being a .co.uk we can offer a shorter domain name due to the lack of .com domains available thanks to the number of domain squatters who use them.
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 4:52pm UTC)
Wow, Ross you the man
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 10:38pm UTC)
Hm, I thought these were XML... lol my bad
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (2nd Feb 08 at 11:58pm UTC)
Posted By deexdee on 1st Feb 08 at 11:34pm Ross, Is it still CGI like proboards. Or is it php or something else? The url does not show. Thank you. CGI is not a language; it stands for Common Gateway Interface, and is a file extension used by a wide variety of languages. The Proboards system is coded in PERL.
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Re: What technology is used for this board? (3rd Feb 08 at 7:53pm UTC)
Posted By Marc on 2nd Feb 08 at 11:58pm Posted By deexdee on 1st Feb 08 at 11:34pm Ross, Is it still CGI like proboards. Or is it php or something else? The url does not show. Thank you. CGI is not a language; it stands for Common Gateway Interface, and is a file extension used by a wide variety of languages. The Proboards system is coded in PERL. That explains it. The source of some of its features are incredibly grotesque. CGI makes me gag. I have a book on my shelf just sitting there gawking at me: "CGI & Perl - Explained". I'll stick to PHP I think.
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