[Fineus]

Hey all, I need to find a program/script to run a good, cheap message board/forum setup for my colleges Student Union website. Nothing as complicated/in depth as vB or UBB, just a basic deal - doesn't even have to support image posting in threads or anything.

If anyone has any ideas/advice then please let me know ASAP - thanks

[an0n]

phpBB2
Invision Board
CuteCast

In order of kick-ass-ness.

Don't use IkonBoard or YaBB. They are teh suck™.

[Stealth]

grab an ez-board... they can be configured pretty well i've heard.


and they're free

[an0n]

..............................Y'know, either I'm stoned or you just said to use EZ-Board.

They're fine if you want banners, pop-ups, crappy controls and don't want to actually use them.

[Fineus]

I have to admit they were my first consideration and chucked out based on the hope I could find something better elsewhere.

In the meantime, I'm not sure what my server supports... no mention of MySQL...

[an0n]

Where's the Student Union website? And who hosts it? If it's on the college/uni servers you could probably just ask the server admins to install a database for you.


*seems to remember coming across a non-MySQL forum somewhere that worked with on-server databases*

, I think it was CuteCast. But you still need Perl on yer server.

[Warlock]

If you want to check out a PHPbb in action link is in my siggy.

We've had a few bugs recently ,.. but nothing big

Things like the script assigned passwords don't work (if a user doesn't choose their own password the emailed ones never are recognized by the script)

The only big thing was the other day suddenly the art forum just lost ALL it's threads, but that seems to have been a server issue, if I recall my friend that owns the server said the files themselves had been wiped.

[Fineus]

an0n: www.worthingcollegesu.com

I really don't think it's got any kind of support at all for this kinda thing... it'll have to be some kind of HTML thing if such exists.

[an0n]

Y'know, you could just make a section here, set it's display order to 0 and assign it a template that in no way linked to the main HLP index, other forums or memberlist....or search, thus completely isolating it from the rest of the board, except by way of putting in the right forumid in the address bar. Then stick sub-forums under it, et voila.

[Fineus]

I'd need to ask Shrikey about it - but it is a nice idea. And doesn't seem to have any disadvantages either, since I already know my way around vB a fair bit....

Thanks for all the help mate

[Riven]

www.scripthost.com

no frills but works and is hosted by them with no ads.

[Windrunner]

try out this forum T. its simple an clean. although its an ASP script

[Fineus]

I like that Windrunner but it's in German... and that's absolutly no good for my college

[Windrunner]

actually its in swedish. but it vould do no good to translate

[Fineus]

Sorry, my bad Either way if it's not in English I can't do anything with it - sorry.

[WMCoolmon]

iKonboard, uses CGI/Perl/DBM or CGI/Perl/MySQL.

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by an0n
phpBB2
Invision Board
CuteCast

In order of kick-ass-ness.

Don't use IkonBoard or YaBB. They are teh suck™.

[Stealth]

yeah, that sounds like a good idea.  just go make your own HLP hidden forum and host it on HLP... sounds like a good idea to me

[Stryke 9]

phpBB is excellent- pretty much the best format out there, and free. EZboard is easily the worst.

[Anaz]

just make sure you make it look different from all of the other people who use phpbb and don't do anything to make it look different from stock...