Hi All..

 

I've been searching and there just seems to be so many softwares, I have no idea which to choose so thought I would ask because folks here have a lot more experience with it.

 

but basically, I want to know what the easiest forum would be to integrate into an exsisting static html website. I want to host it myself on my own server.

 

ideally, I would like to be able to pull the most recent discussions from the forum too and present them on the front page, and I like the topic preview feature some forums have, but that's not that important.

 

ease of integration is the most important factor at the moment. but there is soooo many..

 

Does anyone have any pointers, or suggestions

 

Thanks

 

Martin

Simple machines forum has a feature that does what you want, it's called SSI and allows you to grab forum data and display it on the homepage.

 

You would need to have all your pages in .php format, but you just change the ending, no php knowledge needed

Thanks Faevilangel,

 

I will go and check it out now.. I never realised there was so many until I tried searching for one.. Oh MY!..

 

M

Yes I agree Simple Machine Forum [smf] is probably the easiest although phpBB2 [or higher] is also free and very good.

 

Check to see if your host has a '1 click' install option like we do - this makes installation so easy.

 

All the best.

Thanks Indexhtml (lol love your nic)..

 

yeah, I came across punbb, which I discovered I could add a sites header and footer too, creating another option I guess, my cpanel has fantastico which Installs them, but not sure if punbb is on there. will go and check, I kinda got distracted but am back on the quest for the forum..

 

M