need lots of forum help

[gigaX]

HI i need your guys oppinions and help...

which forum should i use for my webby:

invision
phpBB
vbulliten (i can afford it)


and once i install one of those forums is there anyway to make when the member signs up with the forum they can use the same user/pass to sign in on the main page of my webby?

[elachys]

with phpbb you can just include the odd php file and the logins will work as well as pm notification (i duno about the others ! )

[OK-OK]

vbulletin is the fastest, better than PHPBB, use that one.

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http://www.vbulletin.com/ - costs a bit, but if you can afford it, it's probably the way to go.

http://www.phpbb.com/ - not my personal favorite, but certainly popular. Also completely free.

http://www.invisionboard.com/ - no longer really free, but it's cheaper than vBulletin. $150 will get you a whole lifetime "registration." You can also get add-ons for it (they also cost.), of which they will be making more.

(and just a side note, Invision recently tried to buy phpBB... it was an interesting topic when the public found out.)

And then, I might at least mention mine:
http://www.simplemachines.org/ - not released exactly yet (guess I should get to it and finish, almost done though..) but many like it better than phpBB, etc. (for one thing, it doesn't assume you've read every post every time you visit.) Free and paid support.

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[elachys]

phpbb is my personal favoret but invision has always interested me and simplemachines also looks interesting !

[gigaX]

ill go with vbulliten