Best PHP forum

Hi DP'ites,

I am looking for your recommendations on the best PHP forum for B2B discussions that i can install on one of my website but should have the following features;

1. It should be customisable.
2. Non branding feature should be there.
3. Should have a paid section where only paid subscribers can visit and post.
4. Should contain extra fields in the User CP section.

Being a newbie, I am looking for the best of the best information on how to get started and whom to pick.

Looking forward to hear really soon.

Thanks,
Mike...

 

The best: vBulletin + plugins

 

vBulletin is the best thing I can think of, and I believe you can pay a bit extra to remove to branding/copyright feature. You can probably do everything with phpBB as well, though if you remove the branding people will refuse to give you help in the support forums (which is fair enough really).

 

Is anyone here has any clue on what does affiliates4u.com/forum uses?

Also how about phpbb? They have released the phpbb3 version recently.

 

They use vBulletin.

 

If you want stable go with vBulletin.
If you want to risk a bit go with phpbb3 - it's free too

 

Thanks for the comments guys.

I think i will be going for the vBulletine only.
Having seen their charges i saw that they charge 77 GBP for the one time professional installation, how worthy is that. Or is it possible for a newbie to do the same by referring to some manual or help book?

Comments appreciated.

Cheers,
Mike...

 

Good enough as i will also be using it for some other website of mine but this one i have to do it for someone else and as people mentioned that vBulletin will be more stable so I am going with it.

 

SMF is a good free php forum

 

vbulletin is byfar the best forum script i have seen. (commercial)

I am very comfortable with vbulletin since i am pretty much used to it than using other forum scripts. I dont mind paying $80/yr for the start.

If you want to save money and dont want to spend any money, Punbb or SMF are really good. You can find some of the best collection of forum scripts here: http://best-php-scripts.com/forum_scripts.htm

 

Good to hear that you are pretty happy with the PhPBB3. Mind sharing the website that you have the forum running.

Also how easy or hard is it to have the SEO friendlyness (Automated title and meta description with rewrited html urls) in the vBullentin forum and in PHPBB3 too.

Thanks for the response so far.

 

The best is vBulletin + plugins. and PHPBB3 is also gr8

 

Where can i get the plugins for vBulletin and how can i use them?

Any existing website with the use of vBulletin plugins would give me more insight.

Comments appreciated.

 

These links may be useful:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=32106
http://digg.com/design/The_Top_15_vBulletin_Plug_ins