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QUOTE (john_meikle)
IPB and VBullitin I would recommend but phpBB is still pretty good
I used to use PHPBb on my site, but now I use the port of PHPBB that comes with nuke....
-William
But is the nuke thing good?
InvisionBoard is pretty good also, but it's a paid forum system. SMF seems to be a little faster than most of these forums (free or not).
Zony, I think wwheeler is talking about phpNuke, the content management system (CMS). What this basically does is that is shows many categories of information in one web page. See this site for more information. There are many CMS out there. Another one you might want to take a look at is Mambo. If you use Mambo, I think there is something called a Mambo bridge over at SMF that you can use to have this integrated with each other.
The new site we have uses PHPBB, and it seems to be good software, but the theme I have now is kinda cheap looking.
I also think the SMF system is fast and clean, but I like PHP-Nuke beter than Mambo.
i've used both of them and I think mambo is much easier and faster 
any one tried punbb yet?
what else...
Cheers,
Himanshu
QUOTE (Zony)
I think we can say that is phpbb.. or what?But is the nuke thing good?
If you like phpBB then you would like PHP-Nuke right out of the box, the main problems is using mods, but you can get mods that have been ported to PHP-Nuke for the phpBB, but they are hard to find, you can go Here and get some, there are about 28 of them there with a forum that has a list with a description of each MOD for the PHP-Nuke and what it does.
On the other hand vBulletin is also really good, but I don't like its defaul skin, so that's a minus, whereas I am really keen on the IPB default skin.
phpBB is too easy to hack into (I have not tried it myself, though), and SMF is good, free, secure, but lacks some good options that IPB has.
Just a few more things to add why I still like SMF better. SMF has free tech support and future upgrades. If a security flaw is found, they will patch it up ASAP. Free is not always better, but when it comes to forum, I have to put it on the top list of forums
and with all those features i just got bored of phpbb really fast.
What does best mean? Fast, high security/reliable, or something else.
You may know many popular PHP forums. So I'm not going to re-mention them.
I think you should check out this Java forum. It's very fast.
http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforumweb/index.jsp
Free/SQL based: Invision Power Board
Free/non-SQL: YABB
I've used IVP quit a bit, but currently am using YABB2 on my site since it is not widely used and I am using the member ship text file to enable users to PERL script somewhere else. Since everyone disallows connection to MySQL from remote locations and I'm not ready to spend the big $$ on a dedicated server, it works for my needs.
Invision is a pretty powerful BBS without the security flaws that plagued phpBB.
But, if you want to get a little more creative, and have more knowledge in PHP, give Burning Board a shot. They have a pay version as well as a Lite (free) version. I've used the Lite version, and it's more like VBulletin in my opinion. I was able to customize my board to look very nice. Much nicer than I could have done with PHPBB. The pages load fast and there is a more in-depth admin panel. If you got the cash, get the pay version. There is an extensive amount of add-in's you get access to which will make your site even better. The Lite version has Mod's too, but I assume the pay version get's more support.
Burning Board: www.woltlab.de
PHPBB: www.phpbb.com
install them both, mess with the admin panel, and go from there is what I recommend. (btw, personally I wouldn't advise you to use Invisionboard, it's nice but you can achieve a more professional look with WBB or PHPBB, and I think the page loadtime is faster) I hope this information helps you.
Ho
www.quicksilverforums.com
xboxrulz
I must say you are mistaken, since IPB is not free. It was before, but now you have to pay for it. Nevertheless, there can still be found IPB versions that were once free, but they are illegal to download and use. However, if you aquired an IPB version when it was free, you have all rights to use it. The last one that was free was 2.0.0, but it could be found only for a short period, and it has "Trial" at the bottom (even though it is fully functional).
QUOTE (Zony)
Can you guys tell me what you think are the best forum system? I like phpbb personal, but invision is good enought to.
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I like SMF as this the only free and professional looking bulletin board software.
On the other hand if you want a free forum software - you can't go past phpBB... it's fast, very customisable with heaps of features - and best of all - it's free!
Of course there are many other alternatives out there such as invision but you might just have to go and look around and find out which ones best for you.
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