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slipd

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Hey guys,

I need to integrate a forum into my 3rd year website project website at Uni ;)

What can you recommend? I’ve been looking at vBulletin but it looks quite complicated and it’s also pretty expensive…

What else is about, free or otherwise.

Any links :)

Many thanks,

SW.
 
The_KiD said:
phpbb - www.phpbb.com
mybb - www.mybb.com
Seditio - www.neocrome.net

There are lots and lots and lots of different forum softwares out there.

I have personally used phpbb extensively, but am thinking of moving over to mybb instead.
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Thanks!

Would they all tie in nicely with my proposed MySQL/Apache setup :)

--Sorry forgot to mention that earlier--

Can you point me in the direction of any working examples of these forums in action?

Also, of the three, which would you say was the most easy to use/code?

You've used mybb extensively, so I imagine it’s quite well supported online and that there is lots of documentation available for it :)

Cheers,

SW.
 
phpbb - www.techmonkeys.co.uk <--- my site
mybb - www.lolwtf.org <--- slowly converting my site to mybb
sediito - www.h2hclan.com <-- clan site (not quite seditio, but an earlier version called LDU but almost the same thing)

Sorry I have used phpbb extensively and it is very very well documented and easy to mod/configure

mybb seems more sturdy and has some greate features, but is fairly new in comparison so not as well documented.

seditio is very well documented too.


Edit - Sorry should have said on the Techmonkeys example, the portal bit on the front is an add on (mx-portal) and does not come with phpbb natively
 
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I’m well into phpBB 2 and really getting to grips with it – its soooo easy, thanks :)

I know its customisable, but how would I go about creating a sorting of front page notice board, a bit like the one at http://dslzoneuk.net/ - The DSL ZoneUK News section.

I take it the static threads are being read in from somewhere, but how :confused:

Any instructions out there that might help, anyone got any experience of such matters?

Thanks,

SW.
 
Hey guys,

Out of interest, how many SQL databases does a phpBB forum use by default?

I ask because I notice my hosters, Streamlinenet, only offer me two in the package I'm on :eek:

I'm still developing offline, but I wanted to check before my publication deadline... I don't want any problems later on in proceedings :p

Cheers,

SW.
 
KingAdora said:
Errr they use one database.
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Nice :)

That's all I needed to know!

I could get more on my account; but at a cost...

I'm doing this site for Uni, so I'm trying to keep the £££ to a minimium :p

Cheers,

SW.
 
Clarkey said:
lol I can see you're going to get a really good mark for just using somebody elses forum software :D
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:)

The forum is just to 'bulk' out the site, I'll get the marks in the design and implementation.

You could do a whole project on designing a forum... I had considered it ;)

SW.
 
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