What you can say in this case?

Good day Boonex team and good day community websites owners!

Today i surf in internet and found article that made me think! And before i start think something bad i want know what Boonex team can say about this article below!? And ofcourse i want to know what can say my colleagues (who was fully working websites with lot of members)!?

Here is this article:

Why Boonex is a scam?

Boonex problem nr1. No coding standard

Boonex is writen by several people using different technologies. Its main base (Dolphin) is writen in pure php with its own template engine and forum (Orca) uses xlst. That has large negative impact to integration of forum in site and site in forum. When coding, please use single technology and template system.

Whats even worser, different parts of dolphins code itself is writen by completely different people, and very in the hurry. So everyone has its own imagination how to interact with different parts of the code. It is very tricky to modify code that way to suit site needs.

Boonex problem nr2. Template engine and separation of code/design/database

This problem in dolphin/boonex needs a point on its own. Boonex uses custom template system ( that should be called layout system). The blocks of generated html code are pased to specific places in the template. That creates a big headache for programers as they need to search through code for the place where some box is generated. It might be generated in template, or in specific function in one of numerous includes. And so on. Even pligg has better templating than this.

It is very tricky to rip boonex templating apart, as whole coding is based on such poor programming practice. They would be better off using existing template system like smarty or similar one.

This leads to problem nr3

Boonex problem nr3. Crapy use of Database

We saw serveral other competing sites launched on boonex, but we did not care much. Why? Becouse when they reach 500-1000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 500-1000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting daily visitors they will break apart. The reason for it is very bad programming and use of database.

For example, boonex uses profile builder which assigns fields to profiles. So the output of profile uses more than one table and is quite inefficient.

Also, there is a nice 20-30 query overhead on each page display to fetch all the configuration values from table. Silly, isn’t it ? They would be FAR better of using a file for configuring sofware or caching it in php file like it is done in most of the systems.

Another simple problem. When boonex wants to display a profile being online it additionally check database for its status. But that data was pulled from database already. So 20 useless queries again.

Resume

I would not suggest using boonex if you want to keep your programmers sane. We have have changed the code almost completely for now, and you will need to do that too. Boonex is a scam. Try googling "boonex scam" first.

Original source: http://forums.serverwatch.com/showthread.php?p=39961

Who wrote this post ? PHP expert

I don't know who is author! I found this article here - http://forums.serverwatch.com/showthread.php?p=39961

Meybe he is some stupid spammer or how those call, who want make successful peaple life bad...

My website is not open yet i working on it. As i know - No smoke without fire! That why i ask about it! I waste my time or not...

P.S. Sorry for my bad english!

I have seen this post in the past. It contains a lot of inaccuracies.

Yes, dolphin has its own templating system. The author of this post recommends a pre-existing templating system be used such as smarty. But the reasons pointed out that dolphin passes information to the template is the same thing that is done with smarty. Values are still passed to the template with both systems.

Dolphin uses PHP, orca uses xslt. There is a reason for this. Orca used to be a separate product that was integrated into dolphin. I do agree that orca should be re-written from the ground up to be native to dolphin and written in php. But unless you're a developer, who cares.

Also, there is a nice 20-30 query overhead on each page display to fetch all the configuration values from table. This is inaccurate. Dolphin does cache commonly used data. But each page also has data that is unique to each page, so yes, there are a few queries that are done on each page. But as of dolphin 7, most of it is cached.

Another simple problem. When boonex wants to display a profile being online it additionally check database for its status. But that data was pulled from database already. So 20 useless queries again. This also is stupid. You can't use already pulled data to check current status. A member could have logged off 30 seconds after the data was pulled. If you rely on that data 5 minutes later it will obviously be inaccurate.

Also. The author of this post does not know what the word "Scam" means. It does not apply to this software. One of those fake antivirus programs that get onto people's computer as spyware which tells you that you have viruses you don't actually have to get you to buy their software, now that is a actual scam.

Thank you very much for detail explanation! So I can continue working on my website - http://Kendero.Com ?