I’m doing some freelance web work and they want to add a message board to the site. I found a couple of PHP/MySql versions that looked pretty good, and pretty popular (Invision Power Board, vBulletin and the free phpbb).
Now the woman who hired me is familiar with Infopop, but ask me to look at various solutions. My recommendation was vBulletin or Invision Power Board. (There appear to be nearly identical.) She looked at them and is still fixated on Infopop.
Now, I don’t particularly care what we use. But for some reason I’m not keen on using Infopop because it uses Perl and CGI instead of the PHP/MySql combo. I’m not sure why that makes a difference to me since I don’t actually have to do any programming to any of the systems — they are all plug-and-play.
So now I’ve got to take a look at a demo for Infopop and see how it works. Does anyone have experience with any of these products (or similar ones)? Or does anyone have thoughts on Perl/cgi vs PHP/MySql? Is it six of one, half dozen of the other? Share you thoughts…
