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Re: Show HN: Natika – Simple PHP Forum for Developers

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Post by dijit »

Interesting, similar configuration format to discourse, and /somewhat/ similar UI.

FWIW I chose discourse as my last forum software because it's written in technologies I prefer, ruby/postgres.

Even though I prefer the UI elements of xenforo or Invision PowerBoard- I can't ever go back to using mysql after administering oracle, mssql and postgres.

MySQL is the mongodb of relational database design.

And PHP is the equivalent in scripting languages, unfortunately.

Edit;

I wasn't clear apparently, I was saying while I like the configuration system, I do not like the UI, or the UI trend and I additionally do not like to tie in with mysql, we should be deprecating mysql from personal things so that in 10 years business can follow.

Re: Show HN: Natika – Simple PHP Forum for Developers

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Post by ahmedk92 »

dijit wrote: post #5

Interesting, similar configuration format to discourse, and /somewhat/ similar UI. FWIW I chose discourse as my last forum software because it's written in technologies I prefer, ruby/postgres. Even though I prefer the UI elements of xenforo or Invision PowerBoard- I can't ever go back to using mysql after administering oracle, mssql and postgres. MySQL is the mongodb of relational database design. And PHP is the equ…

>I can't ever go back to using mysql after administering oracle, mssql and postgres

>MySQL is the mongodb of relational database design

Care stating why?

Re: Show HN: Natika – Simple PHP Forum for Developers

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Post by glebm »

dijit wrote: post #5

Interesting, similar configuration format to discourse, and /somewhat/ similar UI. FWIW I chose discourse as my last forum software because it's written in technologies I prefer, ruby/postgres. Even though I prefer the UI elements of xenforo or Invision PowerBoard- I can't ever go back to using mysql after administering oracle, mssql and postgres. MySQL is the mongodb of relational database design. And PHP is the equ…

You might like Thredded then. It is somewhat similar to Discourse, but runs just off the database alone, including full text search, and it is a Rails Engine so can be seamlessly interated into an existing Rails app. https://github.com/thredded/thredded

Re: Show HN: Natika – Simple PHP Forum for Developers

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Post by dijit »

ahmedk92 wrote: post #6
dijit wrote: post #5

Interesting, similar configuration format to discourse, and /somewhat/ similar UI. FWIW I chose discourse as my last forum software because it's written in technologies I prefer, ruby/postgres. Even though I prefer the UI elements of xenforo or Invision PowerBoard- I can't ever go back to using mysql after administering oracle, mssql and postgres. MySQL is the mongodb of relational database design. And PHP is the equ…

>I can't ever go back to using mysql after administering oracle, mssql and postgres >MySQL is the mongodb of relational database design Care stating why?

Sure, but adding too many sources will make me seem snide or bitter.

But as an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emgJtr9tIME MySQL vs PostgreSQL - Why you shouldn't use MySQL

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/glossary.html#glos_a...

http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/12/28/terrible-choices-mysql/

the fact that https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-real-escape-st... has to exist because https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-escape-string.... doesn't work properly. (this is actually blamed on PHP a lot)

My favorite MySQL gotcha is that if you issue a GRANT statement with a typo in the user's name instead giving a "user does not exist" error it simply creates a new user with the misspelled name.

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