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Similar Forum Software?

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:14 pm
by Maximus'
I relise this is maybe a custom made one.

However we have had a custom league/ladder site made and it is near completion.

The next task will be a forum the coder said he would make a custom one but i just want to know if theres any avail like this?

http://www.enemydown.co.uk/forums.php

Regards,
Paul

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:34 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Better off getting a ready made one like:

phpBB
vBulletin
Invision Board

Then write your own template for it so it looks like that ;) If you think there's too many features in the above, you can just leave them out of the templates.

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:08 pm
by Maximus'
Basically the coder wants it to fit in with the Site perfect he feels vb etc dont offer that and there to advanced..

Can you recommend any others?

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:55 pm
by Ambush Commander
Nicely email the site admins of that one and ask them where they got their software from. If it's home grown, you're outta luck: you'll have to code to make up the difference.

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:19 pm
by m3mn0n
I'd go custom.

The time it takes to build something else into your system and tweak it so you have added functionality, you can make a new one from scratch and give it some basic features to start with, and then add more as time goes on.

Or if you have some time, add them before launch.

That's my recommendation.

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:01 am
by Maximus'
Yea after having a think and the coder allready suggested he build a custom forum think ill go for that :)

Just pushing for time to be honest as launch is the 5th march :(

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:14 pm
by Trenchant
I would suggest using FUDforums then. I completely modified a FUD board to fit in a site template only 500 pixels wide! Not to mention that was the first time I had ever changed a template on a PHP board and the first time I had ever used fud forums!

The software is very reliable and was coded by a security consultant if I remember correctly.
http://fudforum.org/forum/

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:53 am
by Grim...
I'd go custom - a simple forum can be knocked up pretty quick if needed.

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:46 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
The decision is likely to come down to what features you need/want on the forum. phpBB etc add a lot of features, but if you only need something very simple - then a custom job is likely to be possible. It's still worth the time to look at other forum offerings like Fud Forums (it's a nice app) and phpBB - though honestly modifying and trying to work with phpBB is not an attractive thought. It ain't the prettiest code around...;)