Yesterday I installed forum software. Because I use WordPress for my weblog and like that very much, I decided to give bbPress a try. Very simple install, very clean layout, but…a little too immature. So I installed the good-old phpBB instead. A very simple install too, a rename of two folders, a change of a couple of settings and you’re good to go. Not sure how phpBB integrates with WordPress. There are hacks out there, but I’d rather have a proper plugin.
phpBB is supposed to work with an Oracle database, but my webserver runs MySQL at the moment, so I used that.
Oct 172006