Help! Please! (16)

1 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-01-26 23:05 ID:ATWloTpi

I'm trying to start a chan, I'm thinking about using kahera, unfortunately I've never used perl or any of the crazy stuff that is involved with this.

I've setup some space on my webspace for it, uploaded the files etc but I really have no idea what to do now...

Don't spose anyone has / can quickly write a noobs guide to getting this thing going?

2 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-01-26 23:22 ID:ATWloTpi

Oh I rock....

Clearly I meant Kareha...

3 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E : 2009-01-27 00:34 ID:Heaven

See this: http://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html#KarehaQuickStart

It's a lot less scary than it looks. If you have any problems, there's an active support thread: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/#4

4 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-01-27 01:07 ID:Heaven

Like >>3 said, this board isn't tech support or imageboard setup tutorials. Also, don't start threads with nondescript titles like "help".

(Didn't you already post http://4-ch.net/code/kareha.pl/1231997085/ on this very board, or at least notice its existence?)

5 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-02-10 04:29 ID:uH89r897

Give the lad a brake.
Just look at the tutorials on the kareha site. You'll be fine.

6 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-02-24 05:33 ID:A2/npGXN

Real men write their own chans from scratch.
Author of BarelyWorkingChan reporting in (PHP and MySQL).

7 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-03-08 20:46 ID:4g46KTKS

>>6
why would you use PHP when you could use PerlHP instead?

8 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-03-09 11:32 ID:Heaven

>>7
Because PHP is actually developed, and PerlHP is, quite literally, a joke?

PHP may be a horrible mess of a language but I'll take it over that nonsense any day.

9 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-03-11 06:46 ID:Heaven

>>8
the only real differences between PHP and PerlHP are:

  1. PHP is a hack to embed an ancient version of perl in HTML, plus the worst standard library ever. PerlHP is the same thing, but with a much better standard library and a modern version of perl.
  2. PHP has delusions of being useful for more than just embedding code in HTML. PerlHP doesn't.

PHP is even more of a joke than PerlHP.

10 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-03-24 08:19 ID:MX0x7nT7

>>9
isn't perlhp dead?

11 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E : 2009-03-25 23:07 ID:Heaven

If a piece of software is finished -- feature-complete and no known bugs -- is it dead?

12 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-03-26 01:45 ID:Heaven

>>11
An interesting point you bring up.

Does it have complete documentation, translated into all major languages? Or packages for installing on popular OS distributions? How about an active userbase and community which can provide support to new users (if not actual commercial support, which is understandably hard to come by)?

The software is not solely its code.

13 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-03-26 22:13 ID:Heaven

> Does it have complete documentation, translated into all major languages?

yes, for certain definitions of "major".

> Or packages for installing on popular OS distributions?

is copying one file really that hard?

> How about an active userbase and community which can provide support to new users (if not actual commercial support, which is understandably hard to come by)?

yes.

14 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-03-27 04:07 ID:Heaven

>>13
Congratulations on missing the point completely.

No sane project manager would green-light PerlHP for use in anything important, because it lacks anything resembling real support. PHP has been time-tested, and it's shown repeatedly and consistently that it can be relied on for heavyweight sites. PerlHP is a joke that a bored programmer came up with.

If you cannot understand this, you're in the wrong damn field.

15 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-04-23 17:03 ID:Heaven

>>9
Plus, PHP's documentation sucks. That doesn't mean I support PerlHP, though (I don't oppose it, either. I'd never heard of it before this thread).

I wanted to experiment with Python on my site, but my host doesn't support it (it's a shitty free host).

16 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2009-04-24 16:52 ID:Heaven

>>15
PHP's documentation doesn't suck. The fact that there are user comments tied in with the documentation pages is stupid, though, and I attribute it to roughly 1/4 of the terrible PHP code on the internet today.

The documentation does have a few errors here and there, but really considering the stupefying size of the library I guess that's to be expected. If they'd spend some time weeding out all of the redundant and useless functions, it'd be higher quality.

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