What would you see as the TOP 10 php forum scripts?

markg85

Hey,

im asking this because i have plans to support the top 10 with paFileDB Extreme Edition 2.0.0 which is a very far future version :) im currently almost readt to release beta 1 of Extreme Edition 1.0.0 but i would still like to know this.

it must be php!!! no perl ro other languages.. php only

my personal top 10:
1. vBulletin
2. Invision Power Board
3. phpBB
4. React
5. XMB Forum
6. SMF
7. PunBB
8. UseBB
9. XennoBB (it has a bad reputation.. so im not sure of this one) 10. IceBB (its looking good and very promissing)
11. Vanilla Thanx to: vaaaska

feel free to submit your list.
o and please stay on topic and submit the lists 🙂

// me is having a ugly idea of needing to write a class for every single forum to get this to work..
thanx

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@/admin who moved it: thanx for moving it to the right category,

stolzyboy

although i've never used it, i've heard good things about Ikonboard... it is mainly a CGI-board, but they say there is a PHP version as well

i don't have a list persay... i typically use and use for clients phpBB cuz it's fairly feature-rich (aside from admin panel) and free

stolzyboy

markg85

If ikonboard gets releases as a php version i will (try) to support that one aswell..

perhaps read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikonboard#PHP_versions
and the current ikonboard forum does have a Ikonboard PHP 0.1 section so i think its likely that its gonna be released some day 🙂

vaaaska

You forgot

0 : [url=http://********vanilla.com/]Vanilla[/url]

bpat1434

Simple Machines Forum (SMF)
phpBB
Invision PowerBoard (IP😎
vBulletin (v😎

Those are honestly the top ones for me. I've never even heard of some of the others. And if you go to many active communities, you'll see vB, IPB, SMF, and phpBB used more-often.

oldguy

My top 10 consists of:

SMF for high usage, full featured sites
Vanilla for simpler needs - http://getvanilla.com/

That's it. I tried phpBB but rather quickly converted to SMF. My needs are not heavy duty so if I'd known about Vanilla initially I would have gone with it.

markg85

i added Vanilla 🙂 i saw some documentation of it and that looks good. but the forum really looks different .. 😛 o will i will do my best 🙂

any more forums that anyone would consider to be important enough to make a paFileDB Extreme Edition extension for?

or do you think that some of the 11 forums that are in the first post don`t deserve that extension?

just let me know 🙂

WorkAolic

1- SMF = Most unfailing of them all.
2- vBulletin = Very good, but would never use it as long as SMF is around.
3- Burning Board = Good, but I would use it only if the two above did not exist, but they do. 😃
4- Ikonboard = Same as Burning Board comment.

The rest I don't have good things to say, so better not say anything. :quiet:

markg85

Thanx WorkAolic, i think i have enough forums now ro be bussy for 10 years 😉 and for most of them im not even sure if its possible to make a module in it the way i want it.. what i want is kinda like this:

Forum

paFileDB Extreme Edition (file database stuff.. it alone has nothing to do with the forum)