Anyone program in PERL and use the PHP forums?
 

I'm a PERL programmer/scripter at heart. It's what I learned, and what I use. After writing my own forums many moons ago it seems, I switched to VB because of it's track record with large sites. As my sites grew and grew, I needed something proven.

Trust me, Glad I have it.

As for the rest of the site... front page, etc... I'm just not a PHP programmer.

Anyhow. I really looked into the vb database, how cookies are read, verified, etc, and wrote my own PERL module so I could combine the two.

Now I can verify a user, usergroup, login and logout, and even set cookies all in my PERL code and interact with the vb database.

Am I the only nut who does stuff like this or are there others that do the same thing?

I know bits and pieces of perl but never really do any coding in perl :p.

If you have a vBulletin Perl module, please release it. I thought about doing it a while ago, but I decided it was too much work to do by hand. I bugged the people on the Inline mailing list to come out with Inline::PHP so I could just use the standard vBulletin files from Perl, but nothing ever came of that. Now that I look at it though, it seems like PHP.pm is coming along quite well so maybe I'll have to try that.

Ok... I can do this. I have an account a CPAN for modules. I'll verify what I have and put it up there, and post the link.

Carter

Thanks, it sounds cool.