Help on Free Forum

[Sick Dwarf]

I'm creating a website and I want to include a forum. Do you guys know any good forums that are free of charge? Or maybe even better, profide me with a guide of some kind to create my own? I have looked at Google (before you tell me to :)) and found a couple of them but I wanted some advise from you guys instead of all those sites that have the only intention to promote there own forum.

Thanx

[pwaring]

Creating your own is pointless unless you need to and have lots of time on your hands.

Good forums built in PHP include:
phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/)
openBB (http://www.openbb.net/)
Phorum (http://www.phorum.org/)

I've used phpBB and openBB on my local computer, both seem pretty stable and reliable. I prefered openBB, but version 2 of phpBB is in beta as I write this, I've seen it in action and it looks very promising. I can't say anything about Phorum personally because I haven't used it, but from what I've heard it's pretty good.

There are also forums written using CGI/Perl, here my expertise wanes slightly. Never used any of these but here goes:
wwwboard (http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/wwwboard.shtml)
ikonboard (http://www.ikonboard.com/)

There are, of course, dozens more free and paid forums out there, including ready made ones like EZ Board (http://www.ezboard.com/), but the above are the most well known and tested that I can vouch for.

Hope this helps. :D

[ASA]

And for ASP try Snitz Forums (http://www.snitz.com/)
:hiphop: :smokes:

[dolemite]

Burning Board is another one.

[BB_Wolf]

There is an open source forum based on php together with MySQL

YABB (just another bullentin board)

I think it rocks.. but then again, who am I?

(there is also a pure cgi-version available in case Php with MYSQL is not your taste)


if you are curious check out : http://www.yabb.info/community/
(well there you can also see the forum at work but keep in mind that nearly everything is possible)

[Sick Dwarf]

Is there a forum that doesn't use cgi?

[preacherman481]

Here's another you can look at . Haven't used it, but you might want to check it out.
http://win.ikonboard.com/?home

[blackh0le]

here's another one:

http://www.bravenet.com/samples/forum.php

this forum doesnt need cgi-bin access or php.