Choosing the correct forum software is not easy—it's difficult to make sweeping statements. After all, one person might want the whole caboodle, whereas "compact and lightning fast" might have more value to the next person. The available open-source forums differentiate themselves with hundreds of individual functions, clearly not something that you could sort out quickly by making a list. For that reason, we will do a brief presentation of the best-known Mambo forums and show you where you can find them. Subsequently, we will pick a forum and illustrate its features using examples.
Simpleboard: This comes from The Two Shoes Mambo Factory (http://www.tsmf.net/). In contrast to most of the other forums that we will name, this one was specifically designed for Mambo.
phpBB: This is surely one of the most popular forum solutions despite some security issues (lately, however, no effort has been spared to find solutions). There are several ways of connecting this forum to Mambo:
Mamboard...