What's the best FREE PHP based Forum script??

I am looking for a forum script for one of my websites and want to know which is the best FREE PHP open source forum script?

I came across the following:
www.phpbb.com
www.yabb.com

Any others?? Which would you recommend?? I would pretty much like to do almost everything DP forums do:
1. The usual Forum stuff - Posts, threads etc.
2. To be able to ban users
3. To be able to ban IP addresses if possible
4. User admin - different levels (Admin, guest user etc.)
5. Stats would be good too
6. Definitely need support

It would also be good to know what other DP Members use as I would probably go for the one that most users here use. At least getting support would be easy that way!!
Thanks!
dfsweb

 

phpbb is my favorite

 

DP is running VBulletin, which I think has been much modified. You can try http://www.mybboard.com/, its almost like VBulletin, a post has been about it also
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=220020

 

There is also SMF(Simple Machines Forums) which I really like. Ive never been a huge fan of PHPBB...

 

vBulletin or myBB

 

So far I have used phpBB,vBulletin and SMF.

SMF is my favorite because it is more close to vb, it is very fast, and very easy to modify.

 

Hmm , i think PHPBB2 modified by Przemo (site : przemo.org)

 

my vote goes for punbb !

 

I have worked with phpbb2, SMF and vbuletin. If you are looking for free forum script then i would suggest SMF.

 

phpBB will be my vote

 

ıf you want free, the best is SMF
if you can pay the licence money, the best is vBulletin

 

I agree with you smf is the best and the most secure forum script in the world

 

Template modifying and the like, I would go with phpBB. It's very easy and very simple.

Security, as many have said either SMF or MyBB, though up to date phpBB can also be just as good.

Features, SMF or MyBB, unless your willing to dig into the code which then phpBB is good because of the vast amounts of mods for basically everything.

My vote would be for phpBB.

 

Yep. Couldnt agree more. SMF is the best. I used SMF for my online game clan. Very fast and useful for shared hosting.

 

Might not be the best, but it's nice too.

http://www.imperialbb.com/

 

i have tried simplamachines before .. quite good for startup forums

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have installed SMF and it is all ready to go:
http://www.latinos.co.nz/forums

Feel free to register and take her for a test drive. I am also running a bit of a competition for free PR4 text links to get the forums populated:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=248633

Thanks once again!
dfsweb

 

I think phpbb and SMF. both are best.

 

SMF for me, there's a backdoor on phpBB which is prone to sql injections.

 

for me smf is the best