forum soft to be used for keeping member stuff

any recommendations?

[muszek]

OK, I want to make a small community-based site (and can't afford spending much time on it).

I'd like to have a forum installed, but I'd love to use login info (nick, to be precise) in one of the tools I'll make.

So I'd like to have this forum somehow apart from the site, but sessions would be opened when a user enters the site (and not the forum itself).

Could you recommend some solution for that?

I don't want to use some kind of cms, because it's supposed to be a tiny site. I have a big postnuke-based site already, but this new site has to look cool and I don't want to learn all that theme-creating crap.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. Tired.
In short: site + forums. User would be logged in (cookies) when entering the site (and not clicking on "forums" during that particular session). I just need a user nick.

[hakre]

for a simple solution without "crap-templates" i have no idea. my first idea was phpbb (2.0 has "crap-templates", too), maybe 3.0 is better. with some php-code you can make the login on your own, no prob. and user managment is done by phpbb, so this would it be what's easy for you.