does anyone have experience with a free php-based forum i can use for my website.
any comments are welcome.
phorum is a nice simple one, and phpbb is supposed to be good. vBulletin is really good, but not free. iBoard is great (ionboard.com), but it's perl.
Best thing to do is just install a few and see which you prefer.
Hope that's off some help.
i have worked with phorum, but it's too simple for this task. i also tried phpbb, but there were a lot of bugs in the administration front- & back-end. e.g. when i clicked on "add forum" i just came to an empty page. maybe i just did the configuration wrong?
thanks for your answer...Phlow
http://www.openbb.net
Phorum looks okay, but the damn thing is impossible to set up... their motto should be "by programmers, for programmers" 😡
after attempting to modify phorum for one of my sites, i decided to write my own. the code for the version i used at the time was just a mess... anyway, mine has become fairly popular - you can check it out here: http://xhawk.net/projects/discussion/
a major goal was to make implementing it simple. all the code is in its own class, and the implementation can be pasted into the page where you want the forum, or added using an include. ill be releasing a new version soon. it will add translation capabilities and is fully template driven. because its class based, all current uses have to do is drop in the new class file for updates. ill also be releasing a 'lite' version without all the bells and whistles...
paul http://xhawk.net
Paul,
Looks nice, but a quick heads up. The threaded view demo doesn't render properly in NS 4 (IE and NS 6/Mozilla work fine though). The tables containing the discussion threads extend outside the white body table. Weird but true🙂 HTH.
-geoff
I had similar problems and assumed I'd set it up wrong!! 🙁 Whenever I tried logging in, it worked, but then whenever I clicked a link, it took me back to the login page (And I have cookies enabled, and set the cookie path to /, still didn't work)
that is wierd, i never noticed before.
thanx
