On 12/3/07, Chris Sansom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My apologies in advance if this is a bit off topic, but... > > On a rather old site we have a dreadful old bulletin board system > based on Matt Wright's WWWBoard - all horrid text files and ancient > Perl code. We want to replace that with a decent forum system based > on MySQL and PHP, but there's no money so it'll have to be a free > one. We also need to be able to roll it into our existing database by > adding more tables, rather than adding a separate database. > Naturally, the easier it is to set up the better. And the real icing > on the cake would be to find a script for converting between WWWBoard > and whichever one we choose, though I suspect that might be too much > to ask. I should be able to roll my own converter script if need be. > > The host we're using has PHP 4.3.10 and MySQL 3.23.56, so that rules > out some I've found, but these seem promising from a quick look: > > FUD Forum > miniBB > phpBB > PunBB > SEO-Board > Simple Machines Forum (SMF) > Vanilla > > Any recommendations from among these or others?
You might check out vBulletin. They might waive the license fee if you ask nicely, or they may also have a policy when it is in support of open-source software.
