Hi All

How would i go about putting a forum on a site?

Thanks

Hey,

There are a number of forum software packages around which are pretty simple to setup, here are probably the two most popular packages in the Free and Paid sector.

phpBB - Free to use - http://www.phpbb.com

vBulletin - Paid software - http://www.vbulletin.com

Whilst phpBB is great for a new forum and has some great features, vBulletin is in my opinion easier to use, maintain and nicer to use.

Thanks very much

EEEK! Steer clear of phpbb - it's absolutely useless with spammers at the moment. I can thoroughly recommend SMF forums - they're great.

http://www.simplemachines.org/download/

The drawback about VB is, as you say, it's chargeable.

What we don't know is what kind of hosting our customer has here. Do you have a control panel to manage your webspace? Are you able to add MySQL databases? Do you have Fantasico? There are usually the choice of forums to install automatically from within Cpanel - makes it so easy I know my Cpanel has phpBB and SMF!

What is Fantasico !
I prob wont be setting one up yet- i was just intrigued- possibly for the future

Fantastico are a set of tools that come with Cpanel - mine offers the following installations!

Navigation
Fantastico Home
Control Panel Home

Blogs
b2evolution
Nucleus
pMachine Free
WordPress

Content Management
Drupal
Geeklog
Joomla
Mambo Open Source
PHP-Nuke
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Post-Nuke
Siteframe
TYPO3
Xoops

Customer Relationship
Crafty Syntax Live Help
Help Center Live
osTicket
PerlDesk
PHP Support Tickets
Support Logic Helpdesk
Support Services Manager

Discussion Boards
phpBB2
SMF

E-Commerce
CubeCart
OS Commerce
Zen Cart

F.A.Q.
FAQMasterFlex

Guestbooks
ViPER Guestbook

Hosting Billing
AccountLab Plus
phpCOIN

Image Galleries
4Images Gallery
Coppermine Photo Gallery
Gallery

Mailing Lists
PHPlist

Polls and Surveys
Advanced Poll
phpESP
PHPSurveyor

Project Management
dotProject
PHProjekt

Site Builders
Soholaunch Pro Edition
Templates Express

Wiki
TikiWiki
PhpWiki

Other Scripts
Dew-NewPHPLinks
Moodle
Noahs Classifieds
Open-Realty
phpAdsNew
PHPauction
phpFormGenerator
WebCalendar

Extras
Language
Side menu appearance
Email notifications
Installations overview

Hi Happy Beaver!
Thanks again

You can also try Simple & Free PHP Forum Script About PHP Forum Script

It's not as popular as other ones, which has less appeal to hackers.

I'm a mahoosive fan of SMF! Free, extensive, brilliant free support! Yeehaaa