Phorum 5 vs Phorum 3

Is there a thread on Phorum 5 vs Phorum 3 advantages ? If not, can you list what you deem as the pros and cons of migrating from 3 to 5 ?

Thks

- cleaner code I think
- templates
- faster? maybe
- modules (easier)
- well 5 > 3 :)

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Additionally:

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regards
mt

some more:
+ controlcenter with a couple of user-selectable-options
+ private messages
+ new-flags in database (-> are the same on all computers you use)
+ announcements/sticky-posts

yeah and much cleaner code than before, so its easier to maintain and enhance.

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Thomas Seifert



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2005 04:19AM by ts77.

... it is not easier to maintain and enhance it is much easier to do so :)

pat

Panu Wrote:
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> - faster? maybe

Maybe is right. It depends. If you are using Turck or Zend Optimizer, Phorum 3 was really really fast. Frankly, it didn't do much and once the code was in a compiled state, it flew.

However, if you were not using an optimizer, it gets debatable. We benchmarked Phorum5 over and over and over. So, the code was about as optimized as it got. The pre-compilers still help, but not as much as they did with Phorum 3.

Also, it seems to depend on the hardware. We had been running Phorum 3 on a P3-800. Phorum 5 did not run very well on that at all. BUT, it seemed to run better on our Celeron 1.8Ghz (P4 based) machine.

Brian - Cowboy Ninja Coder - Personal Blog - Twitter

I thought Phorum 5 cached pages such as list.php? Surely that helps out a lot with server/DB load?

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My notable Phorum sites:
Movie Deaths Database - "review comments" system mostly powered by Phorum
Learn Chinese! - integrated forum quiz

No, it doesn't.

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Thomas Seifert