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[Douglas Clifton]

If you're interested  in PHP-based forum packages,
I'd recommend taking a look at Vanilla:

http://www.getvanilla.com/

I use it on my own site, and compared to the others
I've reviewed...well, just have a look yourself. ~d

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Jayesh Sheth" <jay_nyphp at fastmail.fm>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:57:47 -0400
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] Code cleanliness vs. code popularity
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Here is a brief follow-up on PHP forums.
> 
> I followed my curiousity today, and checked out the code of a handful of
> open source PHP bulletin board systems.
> The ones I checked out were: Bee Hive Forum, MiniBB, W-Agora, smf,
> l-forum, and Phorum.
> 
> I had used MiniBB in the past, and it works well from a user's point of
> view, and its templates were easy to customize. I had never really
> looked into its code, which is not commented at all, and frankly almost
> obfuscated. (Sorry that came out so harsh!) It's a neat piece of
> software to use, but heaven help me if I were asked to customize it at
> the code (as opposed to template) level.
> 
> I briefly looked through the other packages, and none of them, except
> Phorum, seemed to have been coded well. I checked out Phorum on a lark,
> having remembered it from years ago, when Mozillazine used its version 2
> software. (Mozillazine has since moved to phpBB.) Phorum is now up to
> version 5. A lot / most of its code seems to be functionized, or uses
> functions. I like that! I tried out a demo at opensourcecms.com, and it
> seems okay. Best of all, http://forums.mysql.com/ seems to use it. There
> are some glaring user interface boo-boos: for example, in order to
> register as a new user, you have to click on 'log in'. This error could
> be easily fixed. They even have a developer blog, and their site has a
> tidy and easy-to-navigate feel to it. Check it out:
> http://www.phorum.org .
> 
> I have been wanting to check out Fudforum too. I wish someone would make
> a zip or tar.gz file of its uncompressed sources so I could check it
> out.