Question: Phpbb3 or phpbb2 when creating a forum?

by SophieDophs October 20th 2008, 6:04 pm

When creating a new forum, we need to choose a style for our forum and are given the choice of Phpbb3 or phpbb2.

I don't quite understand what the difference is between the two, and the advantages/disadvantages of one over the other, so I don't know which one to choose.

Can anybody advise?

Thanks.

by mogoking55 October 20th 2008, 11:20 pm

Well if you want to do template editing go for phpbb2 as this can't be done on phpbb3

by SophieDophs October 20th 2008, 11:51 pm

mogoking55 wrote:Well if you want to do template editing go for phpbb2 as this can't be done on phpbb3

Sorry to be a bit thick, but why can templates be edited on phpbb2 and not on phpbb3?

Also, when you say 'template editing', you mean the general colour, look and feel of the forum, right? e.g. CSS.

Thanks for your patience.

by Cherry Blossom October 21st 2008, 12:12 am

I would say phpbb3 as phpbb2 is going to be obsolete soon

jalokim told me

by mogoking55 October 21st 2008, 8:43 am

SophieDophs wrote:
mogoking55 wrote:Well if you want to do template editing go for phpbb2 as this can't be done on phpbb3
Sorry to be a bit thick, but why can templates be edited on phpbb2 and not on phpbb3?

Also, when you say 'template editing', you mean the general colour, look and feel of the forum, right? e.g. CSS.

Thanks for your patience.

You can change the colors and stuff on phpbb3 but if you want to edit stuff like the ads on the bottom of the forum thats says

free forum free support forum make a forum you can remove all these and edit other stuff if you use phpbb2

by SophieDophs October 21st 2008, 10:44 am

Thanks guys.

Another question: if phpbb2 is going to be made obsolete soon, what happens to the forums already set up as phpbb2?

Will they be forced to upgrade to phpbb3? And if so, will this cause complications with their existing forum?

Cheers.