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Your favourite: phpBB or SMF?
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Capmaster
Joined: 11 Oct 2005
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Location: Albuquerque, NM USA
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 Posted: 10/14/2005, 11:28 am Post subject: |
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Pity - it wouldn't install on my site. It instructed me to change permissions to 777 for several folders and files, but never recognized that they had been changed. I couldn't go any further.
phpBB still has an edge in the "ease of installation" category 
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Garibaldi
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 10/14/2005, 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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I had to mess with my settings like that forever before my python script would install, keep at it Cap!
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harishankar
Joined: 10 Sep 2005
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| Posted: 10/15/2005, 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| Pity - it wouldn't install on my site. It instructed me to change permissions to 777 for several folders and files, but never recognized that they had been changed. I couldn't go any further. |
Curious. This didn't happen to me. Did you try it on a local server or on a remote server with FTP access?
It works both ways: with or without FTP (during the installation). If you have FTP access, you don't need to manually change permissions.
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Capmaster
Joined: 11 Oct 2005
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Location: Albuquerque, NM USA
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| Posted: 10/17/2005, 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| Pity - it wouldn't install on my site. It instructed me to change permissions to 777 for several folders and files, but never recognized that they had been changed. I couldn't go any further. |
Curious. This didn't happen to me. Did you try it on a local server or on a remote server with FTP access?
It works both ways: with or without FTP (during the installation). If you have FTP access, you don't need to manually change permissions. |
Remote server with FTP. It didn't like my manual settings, and wouldn't login to my FTP account.
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Teknomancer
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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| Posted: 10/28/2005, 11:41 am Post subject: |
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phpBB is no match for SMF in terms of sheer power. That's the reason why I chose SMF for my community as I wanted to have complete control over my forum (in more ways than in phpBB) using SMF.
Voted for SMF. But look-wise SMF is a lot cluttered. You have to do a lot more code tweaking to make it look nice and spaced out while phpBB looks very neat and well spaced and most importantly has a clear lead in the familiarity department.
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Capmaster
Joined: 11 Oct 2005
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| Posted: 10/30/2005, 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Pity - it wouldn't install on my site. It instructed me to change permissions to 777 for several folders and files, but never recognized that they had been changed. I couldn't go any further.
phpBB still has an edge in the "ease of installation" category |
In this instance, the underlying problem lay between the keyboard and the chair  I gave it the wrong FTP password 
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Niksa
Joined: 26 Dec 2005
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Location: Iowa
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| Posted: 12/26/2005, 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| I go with phpBB because it has so many MODs. I can find a mod to do virtually anything I need with phpBB, but most other forums I've personally tinkered with seem very limited in that respect. |
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Truestar
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Joined: 10 Sep 2005
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Location: New York, United States
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| Posted: 12/26/2005, 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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I thought I posted in this topic.  Oh well.
I would naturally pick phpBB. I've already gotten used to it's many features, and ability to bend in terms of templates and whatnot. I'm also getting ready to take my abilities with phpbb, and MySQL, one step further.
SMF is nice, but I haven't explored it's administrative capibilites. I'm just waiting for phpBB 3.0 to show up. 
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Teknomancer
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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| Posted: 12/27/2005, 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| SMF is nice, but I haven't explored it's administrative capibilites. I'm just waiting for phpBB 3.0 to show up. |
That does not seem like any time soon the last time i checked
Anyone here that aren't familiar with SMF at all can look at my site (see signature), its SMF.
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kros
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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| Posted: 7/17/2006, 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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SMF are faster and more secure then phpbb, i used to use phpbb but the patching & upgragding got kinda too much for me.
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