Forum And Chat Features On My Site ?

[leeleelee 0]

what are good and free solutions to adding a forum and a chat feature to my site. Just what an easy to use and easy to set up forum and chat feature only have around 100 members (so far)Any ideas?

[Albus Dumbledore 0]

for forums, i suggest you use MyBB it is easy to install and use as for a chat, i dont know any good free ad-free ones but http://www.parachat.com/ is good, as well as http://www.x7chat.com/

[leeleelee 0]

seems alot of people mention phpbb. Is this forum running on that

[Albus Dumbledore 0]

no this forum is running on Invision Power Board, but it costs around 200 bucks to get

[leeleelee 0]

I have made this site if you want to look some of my work http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
Have you got a site you made

[matto 0]

You should consider going with PhpBB or SMF if you are looking for some free forum software.

[jlhaslip 4]

Punbb is a free one and validates to xhtml Strict. And there are Chat Rooms available through the fantastico on the Hosting accounts here.

[michaelper22 0]

If you use Mambo, you can have a forum intergrated into the design of your site by installing the Simpleboard component (fom Two Shoes Mambo Factory, http://www.tsmf.net/) It's very free, and provides a decent feature set. It can intergrate with Community Builder user profiles, and has a limited set of user permissions.

[springbok 0]

I know that it has been mentioned here before but phpBB is probably one of the better choices for a free, easy to install BB. There are plenty of very helpful guides and tutorials about for this.An honourable mention would be http://www.phpbbhacks.com/
Very informative, very helpfull, take a look.

[brandice 0]

phpbb is very good because a lot of people are familiar with it. But I would recomend SMF, you can install it through fantastico in your cpanel here. With SMF, you can add features like a chatroom or arcade to your board directly through the SMF admin panel. They've got a few chatroom mods that only take a few clicks to install. I've been using the Everywherechat mod in my SMF for around a year now. It's nice because people can also access the chatroom from an IRC client if they feel more comfortable with that.

[barnes 0]

Phourm is a new and unkown system. Really small too.

http://www.phorum.org/

[kylelnsn 0]

phpbb and parachat i would say they both rock so i would use them!!1cool