Best software to use for Forums, such as Amiga.org, any platform.

[Amithony]

this one will be interesting.

[InTheSand]

AWeb of course!!! :-)

 - Ali

[Amithony]

As in to create them

[InTheSand]

Ah!!! Well... Anything free and MySQL/PHP-based (or free and .NET/MSDE/MSSQL-based) should fit the bill!

 - Ali

EDIT: I've used SMF in the past - very easy to set up and 100% free...

[Amithony]

InTheSand wrote:
Ah!!! Well... Anything free and MySQL/PHP-based (or free and .NET/MSDE/MSSQL-based) should fit the bill!

 - Ali

EDIT: I've used SMF in the past - very easy to set up and 100% free...

Excuse my ignorance, but what is SMF?

[Manu]

You might not be looking for this but
I've been playing around with www.webs.com myself.
It seems to be free, and you can have all kinds
of stuff there. Forums, Photo albums, members etc.
Any good ? I really don't know, it's new to me.

Not for you if you plan to host it yourself, and
I guess you also need a very capable browser to
be able to edit the contents.

[Amithony]

I'll check out Webs. I was thinking more for work purposes. Tricky one i reckon.

[InTheSand]

Amithony wrote:
...what is SMF?

SMF is the Simple Machines Forum software.

It's pretty much just forums only (though there's a decent number of third-party mods for enhanced functionality) but it does what it says on the tin with a minimal amount of hassle.

I'd certainly have no issues with using this in a work environment. It's easy enough to customise the look-n-feel/themes too.

 - Ali

[Amithony]

That looks awesome! I'll give it a burl. I was thinking of learning PHP specifically to do it, but theres no point in reinventing the wheel.

[Argo]

I'm fond of phpWebsite.
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu

phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Web-based administration allows for easy maintenance of interactive, community-driven web sites.    phpWebSite's growing number of modules allow for easy site customization without the need for unwanted or unused features. Client output from phpWebSite is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements.    Founded and hosted by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite is developed by the phpWebSite Development Team, a network of developers from around the world. phpWebSite is free, open source software and is licensed under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL.

[Amithony]

I may be looking to give this one a go also. Does it has to be hosted on their PCs though?

[Argo]

Nope, you can host it anywhere, as long as the host offer PHP 5. Which they all should by now.

[Amithony]

Beautiful, I'll have to see how it travels. I wanted to start centralising support in a user friendly collaborative manner without all the fluff.

[Amithony]

http://e107.org/news.php seems like another candidate.

[persia]

bbPHP isn't bad, or if you want a whole content management system Drupal is quite nice...