PHPBB or SMF

[Moldiver]

Doing a website for uni and i want to add a msg board to it, thing is no idea which is best. ive got these 2 forums on my hosting acount. Which is best?

[Ghostsuit]

PHPBB is widely used and free and I've herads it's decent no idea about SMF I must be out of the loop but never heard of it. If it was a paying thing I'd go for vBulletin or perhaps Invision Boards.

[Fallenblackrose]

Im sure thats simple machines forum, scripts written in PHP and uses a MySQL database backend, this is the extent of my knowledge.

[Ghostsuit]

Originally Posted by Fallenblackrose

Im sure thats simple machines forum, scripts written in PHP and uses a MySQL database backend, this is the extent of my knowledge.

Yeah it is, I did a quick google search, never used it though and this was the first time I'd heard of it.

[Moldiver]

Had heard of PHP before but not the SMF one, think am gonna go with PHP theres quite a bit community using it and seem that the lates free version is quite good.

[Zooropa]

I was looking at hosting for a mate and noticied it has SMF with it.

Hmmmm, not seen any forums that use it.

[Bobzilla]

I've always used PHPBB but after being hacked twice in the space of 8 months the site I used it on has changed over to SMF. I can't say I'm impressed with its facilities but if it stops the site being hacked I'll live with it.

[Fremlin]

I used to always use phpbb and it was quite good. I kept getting hacked though so tried SMF and I am very impressed. It is excellent and you can add mods etc to it very easily. I also haven't been hacked once since I tried it.