Re: design of forum applications

Hi! I think you mention a very important point: Most of the PHP-Code, i read on the web, in archives and so on,... is fully functional programmed. I miss some good OO-designed staff. I think OO is the only way, to create big application, which fulfill the criteria of maintaince, reusability and all the other things... But a comment about your forum-project: When you want to make a good OO-libary for forums, then i would wait to PHP5, because then you will have a lot more concepts for OO programming, which are very important (e.g. Exceptions...). So you don´t have to think about PEAR specifica then. greetings Robert PS: Sorry for my Englisch..... I speak German "Hans Westerbeek" <hw@xs4all.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:9055B967-86D4-11D7-885A-000393BE1C5E@xs4all.nl... > Hi everybody, > > Does anybody know about a Forum application that uses Pear and that has > been designed properly? I have been on the hunt for a forum that uses > pear for db abstraction and is properly written. Reading the code of > popular software didn't make me happy. Many still assume that > register_globals is on and the general attitude is focused on 'cool > features' than on a (OO) design that, for instance, would enable people > to integrate it with a legacy user database. > > Does anyone of you know of such a forum? I have searched all over the > web but haven't come across anything yet... > > If it simply just doesn't exist, would anybody be interested in > developing one with me? The intended audience would be PHP users that > know about PEAR and who would be able to deal with things like > implementing (java-like) interfaces before they can use it. > > So: a forum that requires a little extra work but yields more > customizability. > > Regards, > Hans >