[Gllug] Forum software

[Martyn Drake]

Hi,

My personal recommendations are:-

- Vbulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com) - not free, but is very comprehensive
with it's features and it's secure.

and

- PHPbb (http://www.phpbb.com) - free, highly configurable, what else can
you say?


Yes, both of them do use PHP, but I've never encountered any problems with
them during the times I've been running boards under them.

Regards,

    Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Stewart" <sms at lateral.net>
To: "GLLUG mailing list" <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: [Gllug] Forum software


> I've been involved with a number of sites where the designers have
> thought "a forum would be really nice". I'm now starting to squeeze
> requirements out of people, and the current show-stoppers are:
>
> *) The admin of a forums has to be the only one able to add new
> users. Most of the time, that is. "Hiding" the URL isn't going to be
> good enough for this one, I'm afraid.
>
> *) Different forums need to have different membership lists. User
> names can overlap between these forums (I'm willing to bodge this with
> seperate installs of the forum software, but would prefer not to)
>
> *) Each forum can have several subforums.
>
> Anyone got any ideas of suitable software? Ideally, I'd like to avoid
> using something based on PHP, because most of the forum software that
> I've seen written using that is riddled with holes (think:
> PHPNuke. PostNuke is little better) Perl might be fine, as would
> Java. Running on Postgres would be a Good Thing too.
>
> Currently Jive, Slash and Scoop are the ones that I'm thinking of, but
> none of them really offer the first thing, I believe, and I'm not sure
> how secure they are.
>
> Haven't really got enough time to write my own, though I'd be willing
> to if I did. That and a Blogger. And a Content Management System.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
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