Best Cms And Forum Combination

I want to install a content management system along with a forum. Also I want to show google adsense ads in the site and forum.

Please suggest me a combination which is "the best" and at the same time free.
Can I try Joomla along with phpBB3

Joomla and phpbb3 are the best among thier respective categories. Also you can think of adding forum as a component for joomla! There are many I suppose. Just try them, if they doesn't fit your needs then you may choose phpbb3. But just remember that, it is very bloated with features. Are you hosting another trap17 forum?

Yes. Joomla. One of the best open source CMSs available. Joomla is very powerful.
And many addons and extensions are available for joomla.

Many forum extensions like FireBoard Forum, SMF(Simple Machines Forum) phpBB .
FireBoard is one of the popular one and is free. It can be installed like a regular component
through joomla adminstration. No bridges needed. You can find more about FireBoard at
moredetails and download fireboad from here

Why have phpBB3 + Joomla! When you can have phpBB3 by itself!?

phpBB3 has a very customizable "engine" that allows it to be used as a very powerful CMS... You can easily add a portal such as Stargate Portal, or something that will make your forum fully integrated with your portal...

I'm not writing this just to advertise phpBB... But it is good software, and with just a few lines of code, you can almost integrate any website into phpBB3...

So... Even though Joomla! is pretty powerful, it will still need a bridge so that it can share sessions, etc with phpBB... I have tried many bridges and the only bridge that is quite stable doesn't work very well... And if people have profiles, they would still need to update both sides...

But... If you have the time to mod phpBB, then by all means do it, but if you have no option (or time), go with Joomla! and phpBB... A solution to not use the bridges would simply be to disable registration on the Joomla! board...

I would say the Simple Machines Forum and Mambo combination is most likely the best out there. It is the only CMS that is fully supported by SMF, and is easy to start. Simple Machines Forum is the best forum software that is free, and may be the most secure (I have never seen a forum running the current version that was hacked). As for Mambo, I haven't used it much, but have heard that it and Joomla are the best CMS's out there.

SMF is a great forum software if you want to have a lot of MODs or styles. Most MODs install in seconds, and all styles install in seconds.

If you need any assistance, feel free to PM me on here or on SMF's support forum (my username is the same there too).

Thank you all of you for youe valuable suggestions. I have installed Joomla and phpBB3. But now I want to know which is a good bridge. If any body has used this combination then please help me with your valuable inputs.

I used joomla but not the phpbb.
i think this combination is impressive.

I'm sure the community at phpbb.com could help you find a good bridge. I don't personally know of any, because i don't use phpBB, but there has to be a few out there.

RokBridge is good... I've used it before and the only thing it can't quite "synchronise" with phpBB is the user interests, etc... But otherwise RokBridge is good...

I have tried to use jfusion, but it got somewhere wrong and I was unable to access my admin page. And I have to reinstall everything. Also it is in testing version so I have decided not to use any bridge.

If any one has good experience of using a good bridge then do reply.