Templates for Forums

[lokki]

Hi

I am building a site for a client at the moment and wantd to know the easiest way to include a forum. It can be a simple one, but preferably one wheer it is easy to change colours etc to fit with the look of the site.

I dont mind if the site links to an external forum of some kind

Thanks

[hewligan]

Well, it depends on programming language and database available.

For PHP/MySQL (about the most common option), I've used Phorum (http://www.phorum.org/) in the past. It's not the most powerful and flashy forum software available, but it is extremely easy to work with. It's also free :)

[nwpolly]

The PHP forum I'm running right now is a Simple Machines Forum (http://www.simplemachines.org/). It's free too. There's a fairly large community developing add-ons and themes for it. The themes are customizable (just CSS and PHP) so you can make it match the rest of your site as well. So far it's been working great for our site (roughly 400 users).

[lokki]

Cheers