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which forum to use?
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- Pim
- Rocketeer
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I’m looking for a nice looking, good-working and esp. easy-to-use forum, but I have zero experience with a forum.
I’m using Joomla 1.5 with the RocketTheme template MediaMogul, Community Builder CB 1.2 RC2 and VirtueMart 1.1.2.
It should use optimal the possibilities of CB; e.g. no double login for both the website and the forum.
I see a lot of forums, like Simpleboard (=JoomlaBoard), Fireboard, SimpleMachine, the RokBridge with phpBB3 and the commercial vBulletin.
What is wise?
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- David Tanguay
- Newbie
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Fireboard
all the way.
phpBB3 is better as a stand-alone forum, but Fireboard is the best forum component for Joomla. They have a phpBB3 bridge for Joomla but if you don't have any experience with forums it'll be tricky to get the bridge working.
Fireboard is easy to install and easy to manage. - Last Edit: 16 years 9 months ago by David Tanguay.
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- J!eremy
- Elite Rocketeer
- Posts: 2108
- Thanks: 8
- fireboard... and the new one is fully integrated with Joomla...
- Send moderators PMs ONLY if they request it.
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Be SPECIFIC when posting.
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- Pim
- Rocketeer
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okay, I'll choose defenitly for FireBoad.
In the meanwhile, I have been playing a little bit with FireBoard, SMF and phpBB3. I agree that this choise is probably the best for me.
Thanks a lot for your good advices.
greez, Pim
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- faisool
- Hero Rocketeer
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im using fireboard but i would suggest phpbb3 to be integrated with rokbridge if ur using joomla 1.5 ... and rockettheme is about to launch the new club for phpbb3
phpbb3 is more stable thann fireboard ..
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- Stephen Buck
- Sr. Rocketeer
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Fireboard has a nifty little "discussbot" code that can be added to each news article. This bot feature allows the reader to click a link at the bottom of the article and be automatically transported to the Fireboard forum to discuss the article. If a thread has not been created, the discussbot creates one.
Does RokBridge for PHPBB3 have a similar feature?
What are the pro's and con's of each type of forum?
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