Developing CI Based Forum - WIP

[eluser]srpurdy[/eluser]
[quote author="Aken" date="1344729669"]IMO, skip the titles for each reply. Nobody cares about those.

Will keep an eye on this, always nice to see new code. Would have to see the end result (or an RC at least) to know whether or not I'd want to use it in production anywhere. A forum is one thing I'd like to develop myself one of these days. Don't know if it would be on CI or not, but would be nice to have another reference for how someone else did it.[/quote]

I thought about that too actually about the titles. I'm thinking I'll just put in an option to turn them off. You can actually change the reply title if you wanted to. When replying. So I think it's fine if someone wants that. So I'll make it an option instead.

As for production. I guess you mean in terms of performance and security? I can say I am fanatical about both. So If something isn't good I'm very critical of that. Of course that only goes as far as your knowledge I guess. Another reason to have it open source I suppose.

I run a heavy set of mod_security rules on my servers. So I'm not completely incapable at least. :-D

And I'm building it around CSRF and of course XSS built into CI. The performance tests will come though as well. Right now I don't have any bottlenecks. I'm properly indexing tables as I go. So from the database point of view things are in good shape right now. Page rendering times under suPHP are around 0.1 seconds. (Half of which is CI) That would be half that under fast-cgi or mod_ruid2. So I'm on target right now in terms of performance. The topic tracking is probably going to add some load to the system. So that's where my focus is for making that as good as possible.