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Install without sql possible? [message #168853] Mon, 29 July 2013 15:39 Go to next message
Ashtagon is currently offline  Ashtagon   
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According to forummatrix, FUD can operate with no SQL database at all - operating purely off text files held by the server. Is this actually correct? If so, does it hit any significant performance issues in a full-scale deployment (say, a hundred posts a day)?

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Re: Install without sql possible? [message #168857 is a reply to message #168853] Tue, 30 July 2013 05:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cpreston is currently offline  cpreston   United States
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I know it can store it's forum messages in flat files, but I do not believe it can run w/o a database altogether. it's one of the first questions in an install.

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Re: Install without sql possible? [message #168879 is a reply to message #168857] Fri, 02 August 2013 17:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It depends on how technical you want to be. You don't have to have an external database installed to run FUDforum. By default FUDforum will store its messages in files, but it needs a DB for the metadata. If you don't have an database, FUDforum can use SQLite that ships with PHP (which is just a text file anyway).

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Re: Install without sql possible? [message #169127 is a reply to message #168879] Thu, 22 August 2013 16:06 Go to previous message
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Sqlite 3 databases are NOT text files. Perhaps the now obsolete Sqlite 2 used text files.

But the original question is best answered by saying YES, a database is required, but
using Sqlite 3 does not require additional software beyond what is available in PHP.

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