setting up a forum?

[kingdon]

I have a customer who wants me to set up a forum for them. Nothing like what we have here with auctions and notifications, just a plain old posting site with different categories.

I have seen this forum in different places, cookie cutter forums. So I know this system isn't unique except for the forums themselves. Where do you buy the program and how much does it cost. I just want to load it to my server , make 8 categories, and let the people have their way with it. Any one have any info that would help me?

 

[Lats]

vBulletin costs around $160 to buy, but is very well supported.

InvisionBoard would have to be the simplest forum to install and runs very well. It is also well supported.

Another to consider is phpbb2.


Lats...

 

[kingdon]

Thanks Lats, I will check them out!

 

[GiantDomains]

Originally posted by lotsofissues
http://www.phpbb.com <--- Recommend them.

ditto.

Free, and great.

 

[system0]

in my opinion, invision is much better than phpbb regsardless of phpbb being a larger community

invision has loads of features standard that you need to add large modifications to a phpbb board to get - for example attachments

 

[kingdon]

Thanks guys, they all look so good. I'm amazed what you can get for free these days, thanks for all your help!!