Forums without authentication

[bleak26]

I have decided to add more community to my website and wish to add forums for logged in users. I already have my own authentication and account creation, so merging them easily with the new forum is key. I have had a look at a few forum scripts and asked on there support forums but most forum scripts are not geared for this task, they are deployed with authentication and account creation for obvious reasons (and this is hard to seperate).I have searched source forge with no luck. Please could anyone reccomend a opensource php forum script which is easy to adapt and intergrate into your site.

[eelixduppy]

I know PHPBB [phpbb.com] can make forums private (requiring registration) or public (anyone allowed to read, post, etc...).

I would think most pre-made bbs's have this ability, at least all of the popular ones.

Maybe this thread [webmasterworld.com] will help in your decision.

Good luck! :)

[bleak26]

Thanks eelixduppy for always trying to find an answer, infact thanks to all the amazing webmaster world peeps.

In the end i chose fud forums because it has an intergration API which will allow me to VERY SIMPLY add,remove and edit users (and much more) and log users into the forum when they log into my site.

I am only half way through intergration ,but it seems like they have thought of everything.