Free Forum Scripts

[jalbes]

I'm looking all over the place for a good/free WWW forum script simular to the one that we're on.

Does anyone know where I can find one?

Appreciate it, thanx.
jalbes

[DrZaius]

Hi jables,

Plenty to choose from here, depending on which scripting language you want to use or your server supports.

PHP

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...ussion_Boards/

Best is phpBB
http://www.phpbb.com/

ASP

http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Script...ussion_Boards/

Best is Snitz Forums 2000
http://forum.snitz.com/

Perl/CGI

http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scrip...ussion_Boards/

Best is Ikonboard
http://www.ikonboard.com/

Hope that helps.

[jalbes]

what will I need to run those. It's gonna run off of my home machine.

thanx alot
jalbes

[mairving]

PHPBB requires PHP and a database. Generally the db is MySQL but I think that it can be made to use others. IkonBoard requires Perl. I am not sure about the database. Not sure about the requirements of the ASP forum.

[DrZaius]

All of the message boards I listed above use MySQL.

http://www.mysql.com/

For phpBB, you need MySQL and PHP installed.

http://www.php.net

For Snitz Forums 2000, you need MySQL (or MS Access) and IIS (aka. PWS) installed (which comes free on with Win95/98/2K/XP Pro).

For Ikonboard, you need MySQL and Perl installed (ActivePerl is best free version).

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

Hope that helps.

[mairving]

Originally posted by DrZaius For phpBB, you need MySQL and PHP installed.

Actually, Dr. Z, I think that was true up until version 2.0. Here is what the PHPBB site says the requirements are:

from PHPBB site phpBB uses a database abstraction layer to enable seamless support of several database servers: MySQL 3.2x, PostgreSQL 7.x, Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000 Microsoft Access (via ODBC) ...with more databases available in the future.

I would think that it would run best on MySQL and that you would get the best support there but it does run on other DB. It still requires PHP.

[DrZaius]

Looks like it's been updated for other dbases, thanks for the info mairving. Like you, I would still recommend using MySQL.

[Xayd]

Ikonboard can still use a flatfile DB, but MySQL will be much faster and easier to maintain.