Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/31/08 12:37

salmobytes wrote:
> I'm shopping around for php based forum/bulletin board software.
> PhpBB is (obviously) popular. But I don't like the linear way its
> topic threads
> are presented.
>
> In the old days, the earliest forums were files based. File-naming
> schemes
> could be used so threads could be presented as indented, hierarchical
> post lists,
> where it was visually obvious that post number 5 was a direct response
> to
> post number 3, etc. In all the mysql-based forums I've seen so far
> each thread is presented as a linear line of responses to a head topic
> listing,
> where the individual response-to-which-response hierarchy is lost.
>
> Perhaps this has something to do the difficulty sql has in modeling
> hierarchical
> structures. Regardless, are there any php/mysql based forums out
> there, that start off
> by presenting a topic list, *BUT WHERE* individual thread histories
> are presented
> as an indented hierarchy? Maybe I'm just blind. I've looked at
> several and haven't found
> it yet.
>

None that I know of.

It's not hard to do hierarchal structures in MySQL. Maybe it's just
historical reasons - the original BBS's weren't hierarchal, so people
aren't building them that way now. But I really don't know.

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