[Gllug] Forum software

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Fri Sep 6 11:57:44 UTC 2002


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:29:00PM +0100, Martyn Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My personal recommendations are:-
> 
> - Vbulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com) - not free, but is very comprehensive
> with it's features and it's secure.

I've used this before, and it was a nightmare to work with. Tied to
MySQL, too.

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

Lacks the facility for only the admin to add new users, and is what
started me thinking about this in the first place ;) I do like the way
that the different installations can share a database and use
different table extensions, though.

Thanks for the tips though.

Cheers,

Simon

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