I give in... Message board?

[Anon]

I would like to know of a 'message board' in PHP that doesn't use a SQL database. One similar to Matt's wwwBoard would be perfect...

Any ideas?

[Anon]

The best is to write your own.
A plenty of webboards you can find at www.hotscript.com (or hotscripts.com???) I do not remember though 🙂

[Anon]

If you desperately need a textfile based message board, and you don't care for a tree structure in your threads (there must be a more elegant word for that)
so everybody posts their message to into on big file,
then you could just open the file for append, and paste the new message at the end of the old messages in a textfile, and include that textfile into your messageboard layout.

[Anon]

Code that does exactly what Vincent describes is here:

http://yelvington.com/annotate.php3

At one time I did some work on a file-based message board system, but ultimately found that it was not worth the time and energy to duplicate behavior that a database natively provides. If you want to create a reliable and scalable full-blown message board system with user registration and security, last-read-message tracking, user profiles, and so forth, it's much simpler to use MySQL than to constantly reinvent the wheel.