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What is your favorite BBS/Forum system?

I'm currently using a free hosting service and need to run a really lean PHP forum.

There are limits on this hosting service. Such as: a limited number of tables; 20MB of database storage; little bandwidth allowance.

I only need the basics of threads and messages and user login.

No need for fancy skins, avatars or admin pages. I can admin stuff through the database if necessary for now until I have enough money to upgrade my hosting package and get phpBB.

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The most lightweight PHP one out there is probably: http://vanillaforums.org/

It's very decent—it's got quite a bit of usage on the web and is constructed very well.

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how many db tables does it require? – John Dec 31 '09 at 20:05
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You could write your own - this will allow you to tailor it exactly to your specifications, as well as, for example, start dropping old content once you reach 20mb (but 20mb text is absolutely massive, thousands of lines). The upshot of writing it yourself is you don't have to make any compromises. Store what you can in cookies, not serverside, they won't impact your limit at all. Use Gravatar, not avatars, to offset the need for either a dedicated table entry, or storing the images. You may find you never need to upgrade to phpBB, as you've written something more suited to what you want to do, and had a hell of a lot of fun doing it :)

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