Technology used by XenForo?

[Christopher]

What kind of stuff is XF using behind-the-scenes? MySQL of course, what about Sphinx for search?

What kind of libraries did you choose? I see lots of beautiful jQuery. Are you using any PHP frameworks?

I'm super excited to see the code

 

[Kier]

The Javascript is our own wrappers around jQuery and jQuery Tools, all the DB stuff is MySQL at present, and the PHP is almost entirely bespoke, although there are a few components of Zend Framework that we are using for convenience at present, though we aim to remove those in due course.

 

[Mike]

Well, there are some reasonable Zend Framework bits...

Sphinx search is planned, but it's not applicable for most boards, so we wanted to do MySQL FT to start.

 

[Onimua]

Are there plans to support other RDMS other than MySQL?

 

[Mike]

In theory, but it would be a ways off. Would probably get more benefits out of beefing up the caching layer.

 

[Nathan]

Looks great so far. The more info you can share the better.
What are your thoughts on Zend Framework? What are the draw backs of having it in place?

 

[Mike]

It tends to be very separated, and possibly over-architected in places. At one point, we were using it for session handling (in the DB), and it ended up requiring (IIRC) 10+ classes to do it, on top of the number of DB related classes we had already included.

But it does have some nice components (eg, Zend_Http_Client).

 

[Kier]

At one point, we were using it for session handling (in the DB), and it ended up requiring (IIRC) 10+ classes to do it, on top of the number of DB related classes we had already included.

Needless to say, we are not using Zend_Session any more.

 

[mlx]

Sphinx search is planned

Great!

Not sure how far you are with these Sphinx plans.

It might be worth having a look at the new real time index feature.

Or in case you are going to use the Kill-list feature to update the index it would be helpful to have a "last_updated" column in the post and thread table with the dateline of the most recent edit. And a log of all deleted posts and threads.

I guess you already know all this. It's just what I've recently been hacking into vBulletin