Friday, October 10, 2014

Five Best PHP Forum Scripts to Start Your Forum Site

There are lots of most famous forum sites available with thousands of a member. Few of them are Sitepoint, DigitalPoint and many more.

So, Want to start your own forum site for PHP? Then, Here check out top five the most popular forum script or software for PHP.

1. vBulletin :-
vBulletin

With its years of experience and good support has made it the best forum software. It is a paid forum script, but it is worth buying it. Majority of a successful form use vBulletin as you can find a lot of vBulletin templates by third party and lot of support from it.

2. Invision Power Board :-

Invision Power Board

Invision Power Board is a popular forum software which is paid software. It is compared with vBulletin. It has lots of features, good resource as well as excellent support. There is self hosted and hosted version of IPB.

You can start your own forum on this domain. There is a free hosted version of IPB.

3. PhpBB :-
PhpBB

phpBB software is for everybody as it provides free services. There are many phpBB communities, which can offer you a lot of help, templates, mod, resources and many others.

4. Simple Machines Forum (SMF) :-

Simple Machines Forum

Another popular free forum script. Simple Machines Forum has a great feature which is its integration. It is also widely used forum script with lots of resources and support.

5. bbPress :-
bbPress

bbPress is provided by wordpress, which is very powerful CMS. If you want to integrate WordPress and forum software, then it can be your first choice. bbPress is a very powerful forum script which must be considered while choosing forum software.

Above all forum scripts look similar to each other. All are come with a powerful admin interface. In addition, you can easily change themes as well as you will get a support from all those forums.

If you are planning to develop a more professional forum with thousands of a member, then go for paid scripts like vBulletin or Invision Power Board.

If you are planning for a small forum, then go for free scripts. In addition, there is always an option paid forum software to update from other scripts.

Reference :- http://www.codefear.com/scripts/5-best-php-forum-bulletin-board-script/

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