PHP / MySQL forum

[malef!c]

Morning all.

A while ago there was a thread on here where people gave names for some nice looking PHP forum scripts.

For the life of me I cannot find it on the search now so does anyone have any names of some decent light weight forums.

The forum will not be huge so don't really want to fork out for anything like VB, PHPBB has always been bad news for me, I know v3 could be better but I just don't like it that much.

punBB looks like something along the lines of what I am after but I remember seeing people here recommend another one that I liked the look of, but being the dolt I am I forgot to note the name down!!

Anyway, ideas appreciated!

M.

 

[daz]

Vanilla is a really nice one...

Simple Machines Forum is more conventional looking though, and gets my vote.

 

[Dolph]

I have used XMB in the past to good success.

http://www.xmbforum.com/

Not quite as feature heavy as some, but light on server load (even for large forums) and much quicker than PHPBB.

 

[malef!c]

Cheers chaps - I have used SMF before and again, not too keen on that one.

Vanilla looks nice and simple and I will go have a look at XMB.
Wish I could remember the name of the other one, my memory needs sorting out!