Forum Software ...

[JaeSun]

ok ... i like vBulletin..obviously, and think its the best in its class ...

BUT, i dont have $150 to dish out for it right now ....

SO, im stuck getting a free version ....

so ive narrowed it down to two, phpBB, and Ikonboard ....

question is, what do you think?

i currently have phpBB2.0.4 installed right now .... its ok i guess...but i lately been going to boards that have Ikonboard ... thought i might want to install it ...

but they dont have a PHP version of it .. which i would like as i use PHP includes in my pages ...

i could just manually input everything into the templates though of the forums ...

but what do you recomment? im thinking im gonna go with Ikonboard though as it has a better control panel for the users .. but i havent seen the admin panel at all, or dont know how easy/hard the templates are to edit (one thing i dont like about vBulletin is that you have to edit the templates via the admin interface... me no likey), and all...

so what you recomment/think?

thanks

[transmothra]

invision power boards are AWESOME. maybe even a little TOO powerful. they're actually kind of hard to use, because there's just so many damned options! anyway, i use phpBB2.x (currently the nasty and almost unusable 2.0.4), and i'm sticking with it. it's easy as pie, and since i've been using it since 1.4.2, i more or less understand it and how it works.