Message Boards w/o MySQL

[piotrm]

check out http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...rds/index.html

there are quite a bit of different php message boards listed there, some require mysql but some dont. there are non-free boards and there are some free ones as well

you seem to have an interesting host. i dont see why they would allow php but not mysql or some other database. you should still try to convince them otherwise, using a database its quite to your advantage

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another thing you might do is put mysql on some other computer somewhere, i'm not sure about php features and modules but i know the perl dbi module is capable of connecting to remote mysql servers (not just the webserver itself). i think mysql is a service in general so i bet the php stuffs can do this also

it would allow you to run a mysql powered database but if the mysql server isnt in a local area of the webserver, the site might be kind of slow...

good luck