phpBB is pretty good. The new versions of XMB are good (www.xmbforum.com).

vBulletin is great if you want to pay, although they do offer a 'lite' version which I believe is free...

[Edited on 23-04-2003 by Tim]

I've used phpBB in the past. Very customisable and FREE.

like the look of invision power board, might give that a try - just need to enable PHP & SQL on my host now - more £££'s

All you need to be able to do is put stuff in and get stuff out of a database. Thats all there is to it.

All this *points at the prettyness* isn't needed :P

I'm learnin it at the moment, but writing a complete forum system is beyond my skills atm :lol:
I've seen a few, phpbb is one I'm looking at at the mo, any views on this one??

Well, you've got XMB which this was originally based on (probably not much left of the orignal code now :lol: )

Or there's Invision Power Board which looks pretty good.

Both can use a MySQL backend too :)

The words GOOD and FREE hardly ever come together nowadays :P

If you've got no money, but loads of time, learn PHP. Its not exactly hard :P

If not, VBulletin. Its not free, but its pretty good.

What would you say is a good forum system written in PHP, preferably free? I'm after one for my site
Cheers :thumbs:

[Edited on 22-04-2003 by PaulW]