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Forum extension

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 8:35 pm
by datapointsoftware
I am looking to add some simple forum to the site. No need for any fancy features (groups, categories, Emailing etc.) , just something simple forum. I know phpBB, bit it might be overkill, and I want something I can integrate with WWB site (possibly free or cheap).

Any recommendations ?

Re: Forum extension

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 8:50 pm
by BaconFries
There is no forum extension as such. A forum generally runs separately from your site as a standalone.
Maybe the following from php jabbers may be of interest.
https://www.phpjabbers.com/php-forum-script/
or one of the following so cheap it is "free"
https://mybb.com/
https://www.simplemachines.org/
https://mylittleforum.net/index.php

Re: Forum extension

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2026 11:18 pm
by datapointsoftware
BaconFries - thank you for your links. I knew one of them and I will check the other ones. One of my concerns is to maintain one user database.
I have never used WWB Login features so I am not sure it this would be possible to match WWB users table with forum table. I do some PHP development (mostly using minimal coding tools, simply because I am to busy doing other things), I would rather avoid writing a special code to update WWB tables with the forum tables, but if there is no choice I would do that.

Another concern is to somehow match the forum styling with the site. It does not have to be perfect, but at least on the color level...and I am not very experienced in CSS (that is why I sue WWB). If I get one of these to work I will post a demo here.

Thank you so much.
ART

Re: Forum extension

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2026 12:37 am
by datapointsoftware
Checked myBB and it looks pretty good. It has great documentation. The only challenge is to figure out how to sync the users table with WWB ?

Re: Forum extension

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2026 7:15 am
by Pablo
I'm sorry, there is no option to sync users with a forum.
Most forums have a complicated database structure, so you generally do not want to mess with this via custom scripts.