Forum Creation help

Hiya-
I'm trying to help a friend create a forum for his site, and i have a request for help. We'd like to create a forum inside his own site, using some program or other. We don't want a link to any other forum hosting site, no matter how reliable. Anybody have any reccomendations on where/how to go about getting this type of software?

[sanddrag]

Here's a good thread we had on this same thing but it is old and closed http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=15616

I have used XMB in the past. It is a little buggy and hasn't been the most reliable in terms of security but once I got it working properly I really liked it.

The most popular free forum software is phpBB.

Or, you could do a whole content managment system (CMS) that comes with a forum like e107. I've done a couple installs of that and I really like it.

Thanks very much.

I'm sure that this will help a ton.

[sanddrag]

I forgot to add that to run a forum is is best to have a hosting account with cPanel so you get phpMyAdmin and all those other goodies. Also, there is a chance your host may offer Fantastico or some other easy-installer script for a forum (if they do, most likely it will be phpBB or IPB)

alrighty, sounds good... i believe his server has all those...

[wk1989]

Just get php nuke, it comes with its own forum.

[sanddrag]

While some people swear by phpNuke I personally don't like it and the CMS community seems to regard it as just "so, so". I think something like Mambo is much better but I don't remember if it comes with it's own forum. Anyway, I know we've been through this before, but it is the summer, so we have time to discuss things again.

[gobeavs]

SMF is decent. Doesn't have the security issues of phpBB AFAIK.

http://www.simplemachines.org/

[evulish]

I would highly recommend avoiding phpNuke. There are much better and more secure choices available such as Mambo, Typo3, Drupal, and others which are all free. Mambo has a pretty slick admin interface, besting even the commercial CMSs available. It doesn't have any default forum, but I believe SMF is integratable. I've been doing some CMS research in the past few weeks. I'm actually employed to work with Mambo, and I'm also researching enterprise-grade CMSs ($200k for a CMS? You bet!) so my company has one central place for all of our 30 or so websites.

[mechanicalbrain]

sorry this isn't related to this thread just a funny memory. i saw all the penguins and i remember something my mom said. my mom works as a consultant for Oracle crisis clients and she told me Oracle boasted Linux was unbreakable, even invited hackers to try and break it. she told me over 20 people succeeded. nothing stings like tripping over your own words. (nobody uses the lego guy its kind of sad)