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dicehost.com
09-26-2004, 04:33 PM
Hi,

I was wondering, what discussion forums software that will let users to link pictures thru the forums or actually caches it so people are not viewing the pictures from your site, but its linking it to someone else site, so the bandwitdh is not use on your side.

What I want is a dicussion forums software that does the follwoing,

User can upload pictures, but not upload actually pictures, its actually links from other sites. and the discussion forums actually links it or cache it so when a user view the pictures it display it on my forums but the pictures are linked to another website.

know what i;'m trying to say?? or do?

Please advise what forums will do that.. or which one is the best for this type of business.

thanks

sprintserve
09-26-2004, 05:08 PM
Almost all forums can do that using the img tag and putting in an URL in it.

dicehost.com
09-26-2004, 05:09 PM
But which one is suitable for this type of forums?? and which one take the full advantage of it?

please advise

Corey Bryant
09-26-2004, 06:51 PM
As sprintserve stated, almost all of them will. I have worked with Snitz & Webwiz in the past. Webwiz even has the input field there to write in the URL

thetopguy
09-26-2004, 09:21 PM
We use webwiz for one of our forums and inserting an image is very easy. You hit one button, a pop-up windows comes up and you just enter the URL of the of image

dicehost.com
09-26-2004, 11:10 PM
Hi,

I was thinking of the following forums software, which one do you guys recommend getting?

vbulletin
IPB invision
phpBB

which one of this will be best for me??

thanks

bgaNET
09-26-2004, 11:26 PM
Truthfully, as they stated above, any of the 3 you listed will work fine with what you're wanting to do.

All 3 have full capabilities that your looking for. The choice should really be made on which board software you prefer, since all will suit your needs perfectly.

My personal opinion, phpBB would be my first choice, with vBulletin next, and Invision following up. No performance reasons for my choice, just that I prefer the interfaces and the coding better on phpBB.

dicehost.com
09-27-2004, 01:27 AM
thanks for the reply.

Well, which one of the tree i mention have like addons, in the feature, like to add in banner and other links, know what i mean?? which one is capable of doing that, and more ez to do. I want one that is a all in one packages that will make life ez for me

thanks you all for the reply