51 Reply by deusiah

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Jansson it appears my server was down for a bit, should be working fine now.

Thanks Rickard! thats exactly what I wanted to know. Nice to see you had the same idea of a file based caching system as I had. You have really put some thought into optimising this! I have yet to implement a caching program. The currect performance of my CMS is good but could be better. I have no doubt that it will improve with further development.

Thanks for your intrest Bert. You suggested addmin punBB to my CMS in the email you sent me. To do this would require a lot of coding (to do it properly that is) I'm not sure if I would be able to do it anyway. Its all up to Rickard I guess. I do like the idea though. Since both projects focus on performance I think the pair would make a great package.

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52 Reply by deusiah

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No Jansson until you mentioned it I hadn't even heard of it so thanks for the info I'll give it a go.

Bert at the moment Im still working on it, theres not even a beta release out yet there would have been by now but I have only recently got back into coding it, been too busy before. Actually what made you think I was going public with it, and further more did you think it would be free?

Good guesses then wink I *should* have my version of it up sometime over the weekend. Its ready I just don't know if I will have the time. Anyway I can always show you a screenshot: http://logicfury.com/sshot1.gif. You'll have to pardon the ugly boarder around it, thats not meant to be there thats there becuase it was in the program when I took it and I couldn't be botherd to get rid of it wink

BTW, thats not the proper theme, I just felt like making a PunBB theme, I think I'd have to get permission though if I wanted to use it though.

How soon I get it released all depends on if I include forums or not. If I don't then it should be out in around a month which is a long time I know but its a lot of work for one guy to do as is this fourm big_smile

As for alternatives, you could try www.e-xoops.com I think its better than xoops and the performance is better than nuke (what isn't though? lol)

Chacmool edit: Changed screenshot url

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53 Topic by deusiah

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First up, hello everyone!

After being very impressed with punbb (just came accross it) I thought I would make a post about it, with a few questions I have of course wink

First up, congrats Rickard. I'm assuming you coded this youself so yes, congrats are due. I have taken a quick glance over the code its clean and well structured which is my favorte type of course.

I stumbled upon punbb from hotscripts.com. I was looking for a simple forum software on which I could get a few ideas from how to go about making my own. I myself run phpbb for my sites forums (yes I know, the dreaded phpbb lol). phpbb is too big and too messy in my opinion but it does have some great mods. Its nice however to see that people still care about performance unlike some of the bigger boards who assume that we all run their software on deul xeon dedicated servers.

I have had my fair share of problems with php-nuke (what I run my site on) and phpbb. I have been kicked of two servers because they use far to much resources. In the end I was forced to optimise both systems. My php-nuke copy runs on around 10-20 querys instead of the original 300+ and I have implemented a query caching method too. Even with all this though my site is still to slow. This is what lead me to start work on my own CMS but one thats concentrated around performance. Its going well so far and I currently have a few modules coded such as a photo gallery and shopping cart with the forums being my next coding venture (hence my being here doing research into a range forum scripts, so far this is the only one I have found that I am impressed with mind) At any time I don't believe the site uses more than five querys and often uses none due to query caching and the performance is as good as I had hoped for.

And so on to my questions. What is punbb like for querys? Yes I know I could have coded a quick little counter but 1. I'm at work now (shhh) and 2. I prefer finding out this way as sometimes a conversation can lead to other areas smile Also are the any great finds you have stumbled across whilst coding the fourms? Things like great ways to go about doing things.

Well, thanks for you time and thank you for the effort put in to coding these forums (I know how trying it can be sometimes wink )

Deusiah

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