Best Free Forum

[link92]

What in your opinon is the best free forum you can get?

[r0ck1t]

It would depend on you scripting technology choice.

ASP - I don't know of many, but I am rewriting the Web Wiz Guide Forum (http://www.webwizguide.com) to suit my site.

PHP - vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/) or Invision Power Board (http://www.invisionboard.com/)

[WeBFreaKZ]

GET A PHPBB (http://phpbb.com) or a Invision Power Board (http://invisionboard.com)

<< THEY ARE THE BEST!!!

[firepages]

not as pretty but pants down best free PHP board IMO ...

FUDforum (http://fud.prohost.org)

else Invision... but the liscence is not GPL

[link92]

Originally posted by firepages
not as pretty but pants down best free PHP board IMO ...

FUDforum (http://fud.prohost.org)




It doesn't look free.

[link92]

Originally posted by WeBFreaKZ
GET A PHPBB (http://phpbb.com)

Looks good!
Originally posted by WeBFreaKZ or a Invision Power Board (http://invisionboard.com)

Not Free.

[link92]

Originally posted by r0ck1t
It would depend on you scripting technology choice.

ASP - I don't know of many, but I am rewriting the Web Wiz Guide Forum (http://www.webwizguide.com) to suit my site.

Have to check whether I can use ASP I can't use ASP but it looks good but anyway
Originally posted by r0ck1t
PHP - vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/) or Invision Power Board (http://www.invisionboard.com/)

[whackaxe]

PHPBB
is good and completly free. easy to set up and all

Invision power board
is free. you just have to downlaod what they call a demo. its just the fully functional this but there are things like tech support and ms sql support you have to pay for

vBulletin is not free in the slightest.

[firepages]

Originally posted by link92
It doesn't look free.

non the less it is.

invision's liscence is proprietery , very open but non-the-less proprietery (they were very helpful with me when bundling it with the last phpdev (phpdev434 will be FUDpowered))

[link92]

Originally posted by whackaxe
Invision power board
is free. you just have to downlaod what they call a demo. its just the fully functional this but there are things like tech support and ms sql support you have to pay for



I went to the demo board and I did not like the admin section.

[link92]

Been playing with the FUDforum support forum in the test things out section and have found that the buttons don't work on my mac, not getting a FUDforum.

[whackaxe]

what you actually hve to do to get invison board, is to 'buy' it, but not actually purchase any of the add ons. its trued that the invision admin panel is very confusing to start off with, but it is much more complete than phpbb. new users might not realise this but after a while yo u might want to implant feautrues that are only in invision.

[Goober]

actually, you might want to try openbb (http://www.openbb.com/) . it is very much like vbulletin. (but its free lol). it has the most customizable templates and has a great admin cp.

[dniwebdesign]

Originally posted by link92
Looks good!

Not Free.

Invisionboard is free. The only limits that I have found with the version I have is that there is no chat room included with it. Invision is a good forum for being free.

My two forums that are using it are at http://www.nsjhl.com/community/ and at http://www.ncdgames.com/forums/

[link92]

Originally posted by Goober
actually, you might want to try openbb (http://www.openbb.com/) . it is very much like vbulletin. (but its free lol). it has the most customizable templates and has a great admin cp.


nice, but how can you see the admin cp

[whackaxe]

you may want to look at this article

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1210

[gsnedders]

I think I will go with PHPbb but that doesn't mean you can stop posting about others.

[whackaxe]

what are these forums for anyways? are they going to be used alot to their full functionality? or will it jsut be your down and dirty bulletin board?

[Goober]

Originally posted by link92
nice, but how can you see the admin cp

i installed openbb haha. thats how veid the admin panel lol

[gsnedders]

Originally posted by whackaxe
what are these forums for anyways? are they going to be used alot to their full functionality? or will it jsut be your down and dirty bulletin board?


They will be very functional but most of the stuff depends on how many people come to my site.

[whackaxe]

have you at least tried to use invision board? its PACKED with features. thats why its so hard to handle at first but with time you get used to it :)

[gsnedders]

Originally posted by whackaxe
have you at least tried to use invision board? its PACKED with features. thats why its so hard to handle at first but with time you get used to it :)


I attually used it for about 2 years on a site of mine before getting rid of it (as well as the rest of the site).