Yabb Forum 2.0 Bridging with CPG1.3.5

[trackie]

Hi,
I have a fully operational YaBB 2.0 Forum running. They upgraded last month to the new 2.0 stable version. When can I expect a fully Bridging functionality for CPG and YaBB 2.0?

Cheers,

Alfred

[Joachim Müller]

You mean YaBB as in "YaBB, the infamous, resource-eating plain-text file, deprecated BBS that used to be the dinosaur that was the ancestor of YaBB SE that was followed by SMF"? Afaik YaBB is a plain-text file application, it doesn't have a database-driven backend. Coppermine is a database-driven app, it bridges with other database-driven apps only.

[trackie]

LOL, that's the one indeed.

What Forum software works best with CPG? My host runs in PHP Safe mode, so I cannot use all the (database) features the most forums use. That's why I have choosen to use YaBB.

[Joachim Müller]

If you can run coppermine (which is database-driven) on your webserver, you can almost certainly run most major BBS apps as well, as they don't have minimum requirements that differ much from the ones of coppermine, and they need to perform less operations on file-level than coppermine. We (the coppermine team) recommend using SMF if you need a fully-featured BBS app (see SMF minimum requirements) . If you don't need a BBS app that is so powerfull, you could take a look at Simple BBS / forum that uses CPG's database. However, safe mode shouldn't be an issue if you set everything up properly.