PC Pals Forum

Technical Help & Discussion => Website Design & Programming => Topic started by: princeofdarkness on January 23, 2004, 21:08

Title: free forums?
Post by: princeofdarkness on January 23, 2004, 21:08

does any1 know of a good free foum creater for me? i used to know 1 but i dnt now lol :-[



PoD

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: TR on January 23, 2004, 23:23

Try GSS  ::)

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: Simon on January 23, 2004, 23:30

I think there are loads of free Forum Software packages, PoD.  http://www.phpbb.com/ is one, http://www.ikonboard.com/ is another, and I believe the software we use for PC Pals is also free (http://www.yabbforum.com/), but I think you need quite a bit of knowledge of PHP and MySQL to set it up.  Just do a search for 'free forum software' on Google, and see what you come up with.

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: princeofdarkness on January 24, 2004, 08:27

ok thanks anyway :D

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: Robotochan on January 24, 2004, 20:02

with phpBB you need to set up a database which is easy enough if you have a proper hosting account and phpBB is relativly easy to use.  ;D

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: GSS on March 23, 2004, 15:45

i use http://invisionfree.com/forums/support/index.php? it free

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: HeddaLora on January 13, 2005, 22:07

Snitz forums are free and they work great. Programmed in ASP, so you need to host it on a Windows server (or Apache set up for ASP).

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: Clive on January 13, 2005, 22:38

:welcome:  HeddaLora.  Nice to have another techie on board.

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: Rodders on January 13, 2005, 22:41

I recommend a free Discussion App (http://server.com/communityapps/discussionapp/) from Server.com who are very nice people with a high degree of commercial integrity.

Their free boards carry ads, but leased ones (like the one I use on my own site) don't.  You'll also find that a server.com board has plenty of flexibilty and can be customised to look just how you want it.

Plus, they do a lot of other great free stuff too.  Tell them  Rod H sent you, ok?   :)

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: Simon on January 13, 2005, 23:14

Rod Hull?  I thought he fell off a roof!   ;) ;D

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: Rodders on January 13, 2005, 23:21

Have you got something against big birds then Simon?   :o

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: Simon on January 13, 2005, 23:23

I always get an image of the emu popping out the chimney, and pushing him off!  :pmsl:

Title: Re:free forums?
Post by: HeddaLora on January 14, 2005, 00:57

Thanks, Clive! :)