I’ve been looking for some forum software to run a new site. The PHP world has a good choice of free/open source packages, many of which are very widely deployed. This is a brief review of four of the most popular systems. Despite having heard good things, I’ve avoided proprietary systems like vBulletin and IP.Board (formerly Invision Power Board). I’m certainly not going to pay just to review them.
First the good news. All the packages reviewed were easy to install. They all have a fairly neat automated installer with the exception of PunBB which is semi-automated. At the end of the process it gives you a file which you have to upload manually to the server. No big deal.
Thereafter, things go right downhill. Let’s look at some basic stats:
| version | tables | files | |
|---|---|---|---|
| bbPress | 0.9.0.2 | 8 | 150 |
| PunBB | 1.2.20 | 17 | 124 |
| Simple Machines Forum (SMF) | 1.1.6 | 41 | 1128 |
| phpBB | 3.0.2 | 62 | 1024 |
Here, “tables” is database tables. They’re a good indication of how bloated, or if you prefer, “powerful”, a system is. A basic forum system needs just four core tables: users, forums, topics, posts. Add onto that one more table for storing global configuration like the site name and you should be good to go.
“Files” is the number of files in the default installation package.
bbPress scores well here in keeping the bloat down, running its entire system in a parsimonious eight tables; at the other extreme, phpBB weighs in with an engorged 62. Behind these simple figures lies a sorry tale of phenomenal feature creep, atrocious usability and security nightmares.
Four reviews to follow:
- bbPress
- PunBB (in progress)
- Simple Machines Forum (in progress)
- phpBB (in progress)
Tags: bbPress, forum software, php, phpBB, PunBB, reviews, Simple Machines Forum, SMF, software, software reviews, web software
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Good afternoon
We need many people to work for us to add 20,000 products to our website.
You can work for a long time with us if you can have patent to work few hours every day, we like to invite you to submit your bid for copying and past 100 products as follow:
Description
You will be keying small information and most of the time copying and pasting information into form.
Description
Required skills: copying and pasting text and images from a website to a form in our website.
Here is what I need:
- I will provide you with the web sites that you will copy information and images from and paste it into a form to load it to my website.
1. First you will copy and past the information of the seller into a form in my website and click the submit button to register the seller.
As follow:
A- You will enter your first name and your last name in the seller names.
B- You will copy and past the company name, website address (URL), city, country, email address, phone number.
C- Enter the fist name of the company as the user name and enter any password, and click the submit button.
2. You will log into the seller account you created using the user name and password and brows the company website (I will provide) and select any one product they have and add it to the seller account you created. You will use a form in your selling area in our website to add a product as follow
A- You will save one product image in your computer.
B- You will upload this image in your selling area.
C- You will select the main category of the product from a drop down selection.
D- You will select 4 secondary categories from the drop down selection.
E- You will copy and past the name of the product.
F- You will copy the name of the product as a search key word in the search key word box.
G- You will copy and past the following information in the detail description of the product.
Company Name:
Address:
Country:
Business Type: (Manufacturer or Producer)
Number of Employees:
Telephone: (with country code)
Mobile Phone: (with country code)
Fax:
Brand Name: (if any)
Factory Gate Price: US$20/Gross
Minimum Order Quantity:
Supply Ability:
Package: (Each in a box, 634 boxes in container, etc)
Delivery time: 20-45 days
Detail Description:
You will copy and past a detailed description of the product.
(We will also pay you extra if you find a video of the product and add it to the product details (not required).
H- You will copy and past the name of the product in the META keywords box.
I- You will copy and past the name of the product in the META description box.
J- If you find a price of the product then copy and past the price in the our price without shipping box. If not leave it empty.
K- Click the save button.
L- Brows our website and make a search to make sure that the product is added to our site.
3. When finished adding the 100 products, you will email us a list of the names of the companies you added in excel document in a csv format or in a text file and organized in Alphabetic order.
4. We pay you using pay pal or any other method you like.
5. If we like your work we will ask you to do more work for us. We need to add over 20,000 products to our website and we need many people to work for us.
6. You have to do two products first as a test so make sure that you can do it correctly.
We need a good data entry worker who gets work done fast who is looking for a long term relationship.
Please submit your bid with a copy of your resume to mona22@email.com
Offer expire on December 15 2010
Thanks
Mike
Good day
We need many people to work for us to add 20,000 products to our website.
You can work for a long time with us if you can have patent to work few hours every day, we like to invite you to submit your bid for copying and past 100 products as follow:
Description
You will be keying small information and most of the time copying and pasting information into form.
Description
Required skills: copying and pasting text and images from a website to a form in our website.
Here is what I need:
- I will provide you with the web sites that you will copy information and images from and paste it into a form to load it to my website.
1. First you will copy and past the information of the seller into a form in my website and click the submit button to register the seller.
As follow:
A- You will enter your first name and your last name in the seller names.
B- You will copy and past the company name, website address (URL), city, country, email address, phone number.
C- Enter the fist name of the company as the user name and enter any password, and click the submit button.
2. You will log into the seller account you created using the user name and password and brows the company website (I will provide) and select any one product they have and add it to the seller account you created. You will use a form in your selling area in our website to add a product as follow
A- You will save one product image in your computer.
B- You will upload this image in your selling area.
C- You will select the main category of the product from a drop down selection.
D- You will select 4 secondary categories from the drop down selection.
E- You will copy and past the name of the product.
F- You will copy the name of the product as a search key word in the search key word box.
G- You will copy and past the following information in the detail description of the product.
Company Name:
Address:
Country:
Business Type: (Manufacturer or Producer)
Number of Employees:
Telephone: (with country code)
Mobile Phone: (with country code)
Fax:
Brand Name: (if any)
Factory Gate Price: US$20/Gross
Minimum Order Quantity:
Supply Ability:
Package: (Each in a box, 634 boxes in container, etc)
Delivery time: 20-45 days
Detail Description:
You will copy and past a detailed description of the product.
(We will also pay you extra if you find a video of the product and add it to the product details (not required).
H- You will copy and past the name of the product in the META keywords box.
I- You will copy and past the name of the product in the META description box.
J- If you find a price of the product then copy and past the price in the our price without shipping box. If not leave it empty.
K- Click the save button.
L- Brows our website and make a search to make sure that the product is added to our site.
3. When finished adding the 100 products, you will email us a list of the names of the companies you added in excel document in a csv format or in a text file and organized in Alphabetic order.
4. We pay you using pay pal or any other method you like.
5. If we like your work we will ask you to do more work for us. We need to add over 20,000 products to our website and we need many people to work for us.
6. You have to do two products first as a test so make sure that you can do it correctly.
We need a good data entry worker who gets work done fast who is looking for a long term relationship.
Please submit your bid with a copy of your resume to mona22@email.com
Offer expire on December 15 2010
Thanks
Mike
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