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ashben
May 29th, 2001, 08:23
Would anyone please suggest a discussion forums application with the following:

1. Neat Customizable Interface
2. Easy to Setup & Maintain
3. Fast & Secure
4. For a relatively small implementation with light traffic
5. PHP & MySQL based
6. Small Package (preferably in a few Kb's)
7. Free!

Thanks guys.
CrashWire
May 29th, 2001, 14:12
I'm using phpBB right now. Great features but lacking in a few areas.
bigperm
May 29th, 2001, 14:53
Personally, I like blazeboard (http://www.bbhacks.com) better than phpbb.
martian
May 29th, 2001, 16:03
I prefer Ikonboard, but you asked for a PHP/MySQL board...
check this link to view a list of forums
http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5522
ashben
May 30th, 2001, 06:22
Thanks guys! I've come down to 3 final options:

[list=1]
http://www.bbhacks.com
http://www.phpbb.com
http://www.xmbforum.com
[/list=1]

Please help me make the right choice! Thanks again.
ashben
May 31st, 2001, 09:15
Any last minute suggestions people?!?!
bigperm
May 31st, 2001, 10:05
I still say blazeboard
Giancarlo
May 31st, 2001, 10:50
http://www.revamp.net is a remotely hosted board, has no ads and is quite good.
ashben
May 31st, 2001, 11:19
Originally posted by Giancarlo
http://www.revamp.net is a remotely hosted board, has no ads and is quite good.

Thanks but I'm looking for local setup's.
bigperm
May 31st, 2001, 17:58
Actually, revamp.net is not a board, but only an ad-free remotely hosted cgi-service that has as an option, an ultraboard.

You can get an ultraboard (Perl/mySQL) and put it on your site, but I don't like them.
leonmagnuz
May 31st, 2001, 20:28
yeah,blazeboard.
Epgs
May 31st, 2001, 20:41
i love phpBB
ashben
June 13th, 2001, 10:51
BlazeBoard it is!

Check it out at http://www.ashben.net/forums/
mr. Goodbar
June 13th, 2001, 11:40
Originally posted by ashben
BlazeBoard it is!

Check it out at http://www.ashben.net/forums/ it looks very nice. keep the good work up.
but why not get something like vBulletin or UBB?
Nick
June 13th, 2001, 18:14
Originally posted by mr. Goodbar
but why not get something like vBulletin or UBB?

Cause they're expensive?
Coolin
June 14th, 2001, 02:00
Wow. Nice looking board. Looks even better than this one ;)
}:8) Supermoo
June 14th, 2001, 03:05
Very nice indeed!!! :)

Although I wouldn't quite take it that far Coolin! ;)
ashben
June 14th, 2001, 08:18
Originally posted by }:8) Supermoo
Very nice indeed!!! :)

Although I wouldn't quite take it that far Coolin! ;)

Neither would I ;)

BTW, Thanks all!
gyrbo
June 14th, 2001, 14:24
I say phpBB. You can really easy make it into your design: www.site-32.com/phpBB
Satelk
June 14th, 2001, 15:38
Too bad Burning Board (http://www.woltlab.de) is in german, it's a nice board that looks a lot like vBulletin, but it isn't, they just based the look on it. I started to translate it, but I didn't want to have to restart when a new version comes out, so I stopped.

They're suppose to make an english version soon. Hope it will come out soon.
ducktape
June 14th, 2001, 21:38
phpbb does the job for me and wait till version 2.0 comes out it looks great and there are many new features in the upgrade the current release is 1.4
Hoth
June 16th, 2001, 03:50
BlazeBoard is great... expect for the fact that after you install it there are some major bugs in it still, and you have to hunt through their site's forum to find all the bug fixes and edit the PHP code to make it work right. Even registering a new user doesn't work right (all the fields are off by one) unless you go through and fix the bug. Now that I have it working completely (I hope) I like it, though. Looks a lot better than phpBB to me.