On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:34:36AM +0200, Sergey Mereutsa wrote:

> Hello Mike,
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> >>
> >> Well phpbb 3.0.x works out of the box on firebird so it can be easy to
> >> setup
> >>
> >> http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2008/06/installing-phpbb3-on-firebird-and.html
> >> >
> >>
> MR> That is amazing - and what a good advertisement for FB as a web server DB :)
>
> We already discussed privatelly about FB forum with Alexey Kovyazin.
>
> PHP BB is a piece of s..t when working with FB - it uses MySQL
> approach for working with data. It stores sessions in a tables and
> permanently does select count(*) from them (tables) - while it works
> fine with MySQL it is not suitable for FB. We`v used it for a public
> forum - performance drastically degraded in a few weeks.
>
> Instead, we have our own forum (ok, it is not so "feature rich" as PHP
> BB, but it was written for the FB and exploits all it`s features
> (SP/Triggers/generators).
> We are using it for our space game and for one of the local fotbal clubs
> (you can check it here, it is in Russian, but you can just browse
> without reading: http://fc-sheriff.com/ru/forum/).
>
> I`ll setup short version today or tomorrow and will send link for all
> interested in testing. We can add _ANY_ functionallity to it.

Well bring it on , set the dns for forum.firebirdsql.org and then i
guess we need moderators : Helen ... , forum topics , multilanguage
later :en/ru/...

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