I have never used IPB before. I've always used phpBB for the past three years on various forums. It's been great, and I've never had any trouble or propblems with it. Their arcade and chat box may not be the best, but you can always get a chat box from other sites such as www.mychatbox.com and copy the link code and put in into your forum. I've done that, and it works fine for my purpose. I presonally see no reason for having an "arcade" to entertain people with. It's a chat forums, so I treat it only as such. There are many Templates / Styles you can download from their site at http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/catdb.php?db=2 or from www.phpbbhacks.com to choose from. Other mods are available to change the layout of your forums, but I've never used any for security reasons, and so it is easier to update my forums when new versions come out. I hope this helps. You can visit all my hosted forums at www.fightclub.trap17.com . Cheers, and peace!
I currently working on a new website for my scouts group and i am planning on adding a forum on my website but i cant choose wich script to use . so can you please post your suggestions and if possible the reliability of the suggested script and wether or not they contain any bugs.
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My opinion about all these new forums is that if all 6.4 billion people setup their own forum, what will be the usefulness of it? LIke these days, so many new forums are coming. These not only have fewer visitors but become frustrating for the host/admin. If atm is really interested in creating a scout forum. He must advertise it ewell or have some means to get members. The forum scripts or software that he may use are PunBB, PHBB2, SMF as in the order I prefer to install.
All of them are good. But I have recommendation to make depending on your requirements. If you want to add some games into your forums Simple machine forums and Invision Power Board will come first before others. But the problem with IPB is that the latest version is not always free whereas SMF is free.
But if you want just for the sake of forum I think phpBB is the best, it's free and easy to set up and modify around. But these days most of these forums can be integrated into content management sites which is even better, why not go for them and have more features in it?
Why not use the free version forum from InvisionFree Boards? It's free and it's one of the professional free forums. It's also hosted on their servers and you will not need to spend time installing yourself.
Simply sign up an account there and setup your forum configurations and you are good to go. http://invisionfree.com/
Why not use the free version forum from InvisionFree Boards? It's free and it's one of the professional free forums. It's also hosted on their servers and you will not need to spend time installing yourself.
Simply sign up an account there and setup your forum configurations and you are good to go. http://invisionfree.com/
I quite like that website, but if you want to merge your website with your forum, than doing the above might not be suitable.
phpBB is one of the best known free ones, but seems to have a lot of security holes in. I remember back sometime last year when you could make yourself an administrator simply by editing a cookie.
I've no experince of other free boards, but if you're willing to pay then go for Invison Power Board. You'll notice that the link in the quoted message above will install an invision power board, difference is that the purchased version is yours and it's a higher version and has more features.
I'm just looking at SMF now, and I'm pretty impressed with it! I might use it on my website, when it is back up and running
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Im looking for a good reliable forum for my website. I dont really have the money to spend 100s of
dollars on them so what are the best free or cheap fourms, but still work well and are able to have
cool looking templates. any suggestions would help, so i can check them out. thanks....
Okay so people that want a contact form in their website, but keep getting spammed my bots here is
your solution. This script might be a little advanced, but it stops spammers. They way it stop
spammers is that it has a box where you enter the numbers. I think it's called a captcha.
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Hi guys. So I bought this script . And now I'm loading it up HERE and It's giving this
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Hi there, as the title says im wanting to make something like this I've seen the automated
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Hey all, I'm just starting up a forum on my hosting here, and I was wondering, how do people
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forum and maybe one or two added on that match the style of the forum a little better, but what do
you think? Should I have a dark/light added on, in addition to the default skins? and should I
leave the forum default as one of the included skins? or something that fits in with my idea of what
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I use Proboards Forums, which doesn't allow PHP. I've been looking for a RPG forum game for
Proboards. But sadly, they only come in PHP. So, I was wondering, is it possible to convert that PHP
into HTML? Can Java Script be converted into HTML, too? Some of these codes are in java, as well.
If you don't know, the RPGs have stats, classes, battling, shops, ect. I've seen it on many
forums. I know that boards like InvisionFree abd PHPBB are great for this kind of thing, but I feel
comfortable on Proboards. Plus, those boards confuse me. I know it's sil....
hello everyone, i finaly managed to get my forum looking like my website, but there is something i
like to change . i don't know who of u knows forum coding or what so ever, but i hope some 1
can help me with this,go to my forum http://www.crazydesign.trap17.com/forums/index.php srry for
the link but u need to see it oke so what my forum does ,is it adjust to resolutions sizes ,but i
made it so it fits the largest size 1280x1024,well the tables adjust to the resolution size, i
don't want that ever to happen,i want them to stay put on everyresolution,just lik....
Hey. I am a freelance web designer and i can sometimes find it hard to get clients. I was thinkin of
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be a good idea and work or will it be a flop?....
Hello all Can someone help me to integrate forum to my site the forum is located here
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I am looking for a blogging software for wordpress. I know of Windows Live Writer Beta, but the
only problem with it is it doesn't accept html tags in a post while in wordpress it is possible
to put tags such as and stuff like that. The blogging software should also allow me to format
pictures by putting borders such as a drop shadow or photopaper like what is commonly seen in
today's blogs. Can anyone suggest anything?....
In the fantastico section of the Trap17 cpanel you might have noticed that there is an opportunity
of have a Forum installed on your Hosting account. One of the available Forums is phpBB, and last
time I checked, the version on the fantastico was something like 2.17. The newest production
version is phpbb 2.21 and it includes all the latest fixes and bug squashes. The 'new'
phpbb is version 3.0 Beta 2. This means it is not yet suitable for an actual production environment,
but it is solid enough to be made available to user for testing. Phpbb 3 Beta 2 version....
Howdy everybody before I begin what I want to ask you all I must give a BIG thank you to the Mods &
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i have triy any forums software, and i give some of descriptions about that software : 1.SMF -
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build forum start from beginner, but for advanced users, is usually not using this, because admin
menu to configur this forum is not advanced, but you can try some modules, and this software must be
patch by yourself because this software is many bugs, like CHMOD must bysel 2.IPB - this software
is match for beginner and advanced user, because admin menu and look style is fa....
I am in trouble , in a lot of topics I typed a link lead to another site with the right format
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Hi everyone!!! Let's explain what we mean: This topic have been created for all
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At the end of this tutorial you should know how to: 1.Upload your scripts to the right folder
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I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to go for building a site that I can run
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and Mambo/Joomla or whatever they're calling themselves these days. It's more of a matter of
which combo has the best/any modification(s) to fuse them, otherwise I might try out PhPNuke, but I
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I'm thinking of using Mambo Open Source because I saw WYSIWYG was included to help design your
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be the most user friendly. I'm new to PHP (translation: I don't know what the hell I'm
doing), so what would be the easiest for me to put up. I've already designed my site in
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