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Offline symon (OP)

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« on: September 11, 2010, 01:14:39 PM »
Ah, SMF. Had to write plugins for it once. Horrible plugin architecture, but decent enough forum from what I saw.
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Re: SMF
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 04:14:16 PM »
Ah, SMF. Had to write plugins for it once. Horrible plugin architecture, but decent enough forum from what I saw.

Plugins are a lot easier to add that they are to phpBB. That being said, I think I had a lot more control over how things were under the old board. However, when it hits 45% cpu cycles on a shared box, the host gets a bit perturbed, and they do things like start renaming files and changing permissions.
 

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Re: SMF
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 04:19:39 PM »
Writing plugins was not as straightforward as Phorum I can tell you.
Had to write the same plugin twice in php. Once for Phorum and an almost complete rewrite for SMF. Almost no code could be re-used.
"You fertility deities are worse than Marxists," he said. "You think that's all that goes on between people."

Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light. 1971.