Another New Site.

Monsoon · Post by **Monsoon** » Thu May 20, 2004 11:14 pm

Ok, my old site has been deleted (and yes, it was me who deleted it) and I'm thinking of making another one about music (guitars, drums, etc.). I want to include forums on this site......good ones........so I looked at examples of other site's forums. One had a link to something called phpBB (Neo & Doom most likely already know this...I can be such a inexperienced user). It claims it offers free service and seems almost identical to this site's forum system. Here's the link to the site:
phpBB. What I'm asking is, is that they say there's a new version, and it seems like youy must have the old version first. My question is, what do I have to download, and where is it on this site? I'm having trouble finding the download for it.

SSCBen · Post by **SSCBen** » Fri May 21, 2004 9:55 am

We don't use phpBB, we use Invision Power Board. To use phpBB (or IPB), you have to have a host that has the stuff to use it, in this case PHP and MySQL.

http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php

You can download it there if you want to. You will not be able to get this to work on any normal host. You will need a host with PHP and MySQL. Get some more experience with site dev before doing so.

Monsoon · Post by **Monsoon** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:46 am

It's the same concept as Invision, isn't it?

SSCBen · Post by **SSCBen** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:02 pm

Yes, but it's a completely different software. It has features Invision doesn't, and Invision has features phpBB doesn't. Invision is faster and has more features so that's why I choose it for SSC.

Monsoon · Post by **Monsoon** » Mon May 24, 2004 11:36 pm

Ok now that the forum problem is set aside, what about free FTP programs? What's the best?