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Easiest PHP forum to configure to work inside an existing CMS?

I have been assigned to add a forum into an in-house CMS we have been using for some time. The system has its own login/user system and an established user database. Ideally I'd be looking for the easiest forum software to convert to use with our system, but if necassary can rewrite and migrate the user databases to use the forums system.

Does anyone have any experience rolling forum software into their own systems, or recommend forum software that has a clean and concise code-base that is easy to work with? Any advice is appreciated at this point.

I have been browsing through the forums section of opensourcecms.com but the details available are limited. Also, this will be running on PHP5, so one that uses some of PHP5's features would be ideal.

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Try Vanilla, free open-source and designed to be easily extendable and easy to just use as an add-on inside your application/cms

duckyflip  2009-05-13 19:24:50
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phpBB is amazing, its easy to integrate into nearly anything.

Mike Curry  2009-05-13 19:30:18
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Wikipedia comparison of PHP Forum software packages

Paul Morgan  2009-05-13 19:31:09
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I would recommend punBB. It's super simple, with a focus on security. The tag line is 'Because less really is more'.

William Macdonald  2009-05-13 20:13:07
After much consideration and tinkering, this BB was the easiest to integrate into our CMS. It provides an acceptable level of configurability and simplicity (PHPBB had too much complexity for what I needed and Vanilla was a little light on needed features). Thanks all for the recommendations
tj111  2009-05-26 19:47:42

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