Best forum software?

[Buginajar]

What is the best forum software vbulletin etc? How much $$?

[isuru]

vBulletin - http://www.vbulletin.com *PHP/MySQL

Snitz Forums -http://www.snitz.com *ASP with MySQL/SQL Server/DB2/Oracle/Access - FREE

[BC]

A vBulletin licence costs $80/year or $160/lifetime, with different options. Check out http://www.vbulletin.com for the low-down.

Snitz is a great forum for ASP but does have its problems. However there's also another free ASP forum which looks extremely promising - check out IdealBB.

Other good free PHP/MySQL forums include

http://www.phpbb.com
http://titan.spaceports.com/~typus/tforum

And others will come up with their favourites..

[isuru]

Originally posted by BC
[B]
Snitz is a great forum for ASP but does have its problems.

Oh? What kind of problems do you mean?

[Buginajar]

how much php do you have to know with vbulletin?

[BC]

Chris : none. Once you drop it in and install it you don't need to know anything else. Just run the dang thing

Isuru : I read some reports on WebHostingTalk and elsewhere that they had some minor security problems. Unfortunately I can't access WHT right now (network problems on my side and maybe theirs too) but when I can I'll try and dig up those threads for you.

[lynlimz]

Originally posted by BC
Snitz is a great forum for ASP but does have its problems.

Hmm..
I was just about to use Snitz forums for my NT Server site.
It really has security problems eh? Or have they fixed it?

[BC]

I believe they've fixed them very quickly but keep an eye out on http://forum.snitz.com for the latest updates..

[lynlimz]

Alright.
And Indeed..IdealBB Looks very promising.
Any other good ones for NT?

[syanet]

No one mentioned http://www.ikonboard.com ? This board is one of the best out there and it's free! They have a new version out that will have a MySQL backend too.

[lynlimz]

Actually, you might want to refine your question..as to..
forums based on features? functionality? user-interface? efficiency?

basically, there are too many boards/forum out there.
its all up to yuor needs.
if you need a simple one, you could go for the freeware ones.

Something like iKonBoard or UltraBoard should do it for a simple website. ( btw..i trie dboth of them and each have their benefits. ikonboar'ds administrative panel is a little limited on the other hand )

[CJ]

My vote definately goes to www.vbulletin.com !

[AlexC]

http://www.ikonboard.com!!!!!!!!!!!

i know the developer, and the development team and the beta testers

but it is a very good piece of software, and the new version will be very good.

also, vbulletin is very close...it will be an incredible piece of software when it comes out in v2

Hope i helped!

Alex

[jamesglewisf]

vBulletin is excellent. I have had it since September, 2000.

You really don't have to know any PHP. I don't.

If you are looking for a great host for vBulletin, check out www.hostmatters.com. They walked me through the vBulletin setup using ICQ. They are vBulletin users also.