BB/Forum software suggestions

[Drew Van Zandt]

FWIW, I tried hacking up Postnuke when I had been using PHP for about
three months, and found its coding (at least for the sections I was
trying to modify) to be kludgy in the extreme.  I've looked less at
phpBB, but the minor feature I needed to add was easy to sneak in, and
the coding style didn't cause my head to ache.

I'm not trying to start any religious-type wars, just thought it was
possibly a useful data point.

--DTVZ


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:06:49 -0500, Randy Edwards <redwards at golgotha.net> wrote:
>  > I'm working on creating a bit of a web based family portal/community
>  > center and one of the pieces I'm looking at is a forum or bulletin board
>  > type service.
> 
>    I run a number of PostNuke <http://www.postnuke.com> (and despite the .com,
> it's free GPLed software) sites and know that literally thousands of people
> use it just for such a portal you described.  One of PostNuke's strong points
> is it has a wide variety of modules that you can play with endlessly to give
> add'l features.  Drupal and Mambo also are popular in this area, and a look
> at <http://www.cmsmatrix.org/> will let you compare dozens of similar CMSs.
> 
>    For a straight forum, I'll also vote for phpBB.  It's GPL, wildly popular,
> well supported and has a large community.  (And FWIW, PostNuke also has a
> phpBB, in addition to other, forum(s).)
> 
>  Regards,
>  .
>  Randy
> 
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