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PHPBB or Joomla community to set up a forum?

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haimingj
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25 Jul 07 10:50 am

PHPBB or Joomla community to set up a forum?

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
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sean06
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25 Jul 07 1:07 pm

 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.
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25 Jul 07 10:43 pm

 Hi Sean,

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

Cheers!
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chatyak86
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25 Jul 07 10:53 pm

 Joomla is a community portal - users, bios, topics, profiles, etc.... Phpbb is just a forum.
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28 Jul 07 7:35 am

 thank you Adrian!
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chiurunge
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21 Aug 07 11:11 pm

 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.
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haimingj
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24 Aug 07 4:35 am

 Thank you Chiurunge! It is a good explanation.
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noproblem
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07 Oct 09 1:42 pm

 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.
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