NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Gales]

Chris Shiflett wrote:
"Yeah, someone really needs to write a forum in PHP that doesn't suck."
and "It's a shame that there are Perl applications that fit these needs 
but no decent PHP representation."

I have been meaning to take a look at the following:
http://www.yabbse.org/

It is a php conversion of YABB at
http://www.yabbforum.com/

YABB was done in Perl and is highly
touted (at least at Tucows)

YABBSE was done in PHP.

What caught my eye was the following quote from 
the yabbse.org page:
"I checked my bandwidth with YaBB SE and its over 2 days 338 mb. When I
had YaBB gold it was close to a GIG a day"

If the guy who said that is really on the level (I don't doubt his 
honesty but there may have been fewer users doing fewer things)
that would mean PHP is approaching six times more efficient than
Perl.

I wish I could find time to check the two implementations to
see where PHP is more efficient than Perl.

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