From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 20:55:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EB937B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D02843E42 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.236.182] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A05129DE00BE; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:53:53 -0500 Message-ID: <010501c27bda$40019e10$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo Help Desk" To: "Walter" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" References: <3DB87A28.3BB79451@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: BBS Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:54:40 -0500 Organization: DaleCo, S.P.---"the solutions people" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Walter" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:54 PM Subject: BBS > I see just a few BBS packages in the Ports area, is > there one that considered best; or are there better > solutions to offering simple user interfaces? Such > as Apache+Perl scripts? Others? Thanks. > > Walter > I assume we're talking BBS='forums' or 'message boards.' phpbb is STELLAR, but I'm not sure if that's made to fit your requirements. The user interface can be a bit foreboding to "newbie netizens", and it requires the equivalent of apache, php, and mysql (other platforms are supported---I don't recall what other db's are available). The look and feel are fantastic, the admin interface is web based and powerful, and it's used all over the place. Great stuff, and it's in the ports under /usr/ports/www/phpbb. Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message