A pure-php, file-based discussion forum toy, created from first principles.
Based on an example found in "PHP Programming with MySQL" by Don Gosselin.
Inspired by the great 4chan hack of 2025.
- be consistent with search, sort and render, whether in models or utilities
- clearer commentrary
- take opportunities to delete duplicated code
- a general error view to render
- improve the sorter
- move data directory out of server tree
- escape characters are saved in storage, but this is ok if we strip them later
- we need to do proper file locking when reading or writing messages/topics!
the data directory needs to be owned by www-data for read-write.
