coldfusion and phpbb

[twistedherb]

Can coldfusion run phpbb or should i simply use php editor alone to do this? basically what i want to do is a discussion forum for a site and i was thinking the best way to do this is using phpbb. if i'm asking a silly question excuse i am still learning at the moment.

help would be very much appreciated

 

[campbelc]

I'm currently using PHPBoard with Coldfusion running on the same box and works well. You could also try to find a worthwhile coldfusion board if you dont want to use PHP.

 

[csteinhilber]

In order to use PHPbb, you'd need PHP running on your server. ColdFusion would not be able to interpret the code in PHPbb... nor would the web server ever attempt to pass the code to ColdFusion (unless you did something specific and wacky to your web server configuration file).

There are several decent alternatives for bulletin boards/forums that do run on ColdFusion, though. Just do a web search, or look in Macromedia's Developer Exchange (

http://devex.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn130)

FuseTalk is a very popular, fairly robust one. But there are others.


But, there's nothing that says you can't have ColdFusion and PHP running on the same web server (in which case you could easily use PHPbb and ColdFusion pages together)... except perhaps resources and memory on the box.


-Carl