Top Free forum scripts.

[momi]

Hi,

You can make your own forum with free forum scripts. Following are the three best free forum scripts available currently.

1) PHPBB3: This is the most famous free forum script. It uses PHP and MySql. It is open source, easy to install and has good themes and skins. Just visit the following link for more information.

www.phpbb.com

2) SimplemachinesForum: This is another famous free php forum script. It is also open source, easy to install and has good themes and skins. Just visit the following link for more information.

www.simplemachines.org

3) MyBB: This is also a good php based free forum script. It is 90% same as vbulletin in features. Visit the following link for more information.

www.mybboard.net

[MeniacMachine]

I prefer PHPBB. They released PHPBB3 (Olympus) and match better than vBulletin, except it is too new that it don't have plenty of MODS yet.

[pmalc]

i use mybb because its clean user interface

[shrez]

I didn't knew anything about it.
i will try it out.

[boxieblue]

am already using phpBB and SMF on my sites
hadn't heard of myBB. thanks for the links i will check it out

[alberttai]

SMF and phpbb are good.
I prefer SMF over phpbb.
Phpbb has better designs however

[venkataraman]

Excellent and useful information.

I've been aware of PhpBB and MyBB so far. Hosting and bandwidth should be the important for starting a forum, I think.

[searchia]

i prefer SMF because they have alot of good extensions

[xtrapsp]

seriously i recommend phpbb3 simple sleek and easy to use

[afgun02]

some useful information,,, thx bro.

[uHUy]

Originally Posted by MeniacMachine

I prefer PHPBB. They released PHPBB3 (Olympus) and match better than vBulletin, except it is too new that it don't have plenty of MODS yet.

once and right agree on what is said in its

[mustwillza]

i prefer phpbb3 , a lot of Mods and look like exp.
They are nice free script forum

[dhvanit]

phpbb3 is great, easy to pulgin with site and great themes are available.

[getadviced]

I have installed an smf forum for my hosting company to provide support through the forums.
I don't have much experience with forum hosting. But i found it easy to set up smf.

see it here http://beewebhosting.com/support

[GiggleStick69]

I have used PHPBB 2 and 3 before, both of them work very well.

However, in my opinion all of the software are just too big and clunky. Some need to be smaller. For my personal stuff, I just need a forum that is small, has some basic stuff I need, so I custom design my own.

I also checked out BBPress by the creators of Wordpress. Looks great .

[apooh]

i need for newbie tutorial...
do you have one site for my reference?

[thestudent]

I prefer SMF the best free forum .......

[TuNiSiE]

Well, I think that phpbb3 is the best of the best, but IPBoards are always the best!