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Any help would be much apreciated.
Be careful with phpBB, due to it's popularity it has been known to have a few problems with spammers and hacking. If you do use it the download version 3.x.
As Loki has said, MySQL is per account and not per domain so you could install multiple forums to use on various sites you have assigned to your account.
Try to avoid flat file based forum scripts, they are slower and can cause a greater load on the server if they get busy (due to files having to be opened and closed every time a user reads or posts to a thread).
As for BB scripts I recommend www.phpBB.com or www.punbb.org. They both provide free PHP Bulletin Board software and include guides of how to set them up.
For anyone who doesn't feel like dabbling in SQL or configuring software, we will be launching a service in the next fortnight to allow customers to instantly add a forum to their site. The forum will appear as a subdomain of their existing address and will be set up and modified entirely through a simple online control panel.
I was thinking of having the mysql thingy enabled, but I have quite a few web sites purchased from Freeola, it would make it rather pricey.
Its a pity the payment would not cover the whole account, rather than just one directory !!!!!!!
More information to follow .....
Either writing one yourself or using a third-party one.
There are lots out there, free and paid for.
For example www.phpbb.com is a well known free one.
Searching for 'forum script' will shows you lots of similar ones.
The more advanced the script the more likely it will require a MySQL databse. If you are after a small forum you can get away with one that uses a 'flatfile' database which means you won't need MySQL. But this would only cope with a relatively quiet forum.
Remember to think about security when installing a forum script. They are often attacked - so if you are installing someone else's script make sure it one that is well supported.
NB. I beleive Freeola's 'Web site builder' (launching soonish) will come with a forum option so this could also suit you. Just looked at the link in MyFreeola and it mentions BLOG, I thought it also mentioned forums in the past...
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Any help would be much apreciated.