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[haimingj]

Hi everyone,

I am thinking to setup a forum. Which software should I use, PHPBB or Joomla? PhpBB seems very easy to setup, but Joomla community seem very hot now.

What is the advantage to use Joomla instead of PhpBB?

Thanks for help!

Haiming

 

[sean06]

If you just want to have a forum, I'd use phpbb. From what I understand, joomla allows you to do lots of other things, but phpbb is fine for forums.

 

[haimingj]

Hi Sean,

Thank you for answering my question. What is the more stuff Joomla Community has and phpbb doesn't have?

Cheers!
Haiming

 

[adrian]

Joomla is a community portal - users, bios, topics, profiles, etc.... Phpbb is just a forum.

 

[haimingj]

thank you Adrian!

 

[chiurunge]

For just a forum i would go for phpBB - it's simple and effective gets the job done.
Joomla is a Content Management System that can build an entire web site or portal, e-commerce site or content driven sites etc (a website in a box) and a forum is just one component of the many Joomla components. Probably will be using Joomla to develop my next site as it has a high speed-to market and ease of maintainace.

 

[haimingj]

Thank you Chiurunge! It is a good explanation.

 

[Noproblem]

I'm going with phpBB - it seems by far the best. In the past I've had problems with invision forums and there has been a lot of unsatisfactory security problems with it according to the press and computing website hostings.
Demo : free forums