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Originally posted by Daedaelus
There are hundreds of places to get forum software. Literally: HUNDREDS. PS2Fantasy uses a software called vBulletin, but it is not free. I think the owned license is $160. You can also download Invision Board, which is free software. XMB is another one, and YaBB is good as well.
Now, you do have to know a small amount of MySQL knowledge to get your forum working. You will need to be able to modify PHP files (If you go with Invision Board, or vBulletin, or YaBB), and you have to know how to create a MySQL database, and add a database user to it.
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To follow on from Daedaelus' advice:
Do you know what your hosting environment is? Is it a Windows solution? Is it a variant of *nix or BSD? In either case, do you have database support? If so what type? Is is M$ Access or SQL Server for Win, or MySQL for *nix?
Depending on your server environment, you can go for either an ASP or PHP-based forum (we'll ignore JSP, not many ISPs offer that).
For Win/ASP servers I would suggest
Snitz Forums. Nice and easy to set up, free and pretty feature packed.
For *nix/PHP/MySQL solutions I would not hesistate in recommending
phpBB. Not only is it free, but it's very good, lots of features and skinable too.
I personally have phpBB installed on my own website and have also installed many instances of Snitz through work. I honestly haven't seen any free forum s/ware that is better than these two.
- S