CGI Based Forum? looking for advice

[flavor4real]

what's up ...

I'm looking for a CGI based forum application with following function

- able to handle large scale customer log-in
- fee based link to certain part of forum (maybe fee based for forum log-in)

- multiple topics/categories
- user registration, profile editing, searching, user deactivation
- threads, email notification, topic subscription, template system

- english

any help?

[chrisranjana]

I have the following suggestions for a php forum and not cgi

www.vbulletin.com
www.phpbb.com

[JPnyc]

vbulletin supports what you want. It's not that expensive.

[flavor4real]

well most forums are the saem but im looking for one where the user have to pay a fee in order to log-in. im not really a programmer, more the designer. so something easy to edit or someone who can do some editing on existing forums.

[JPnyc]

I read that, and vbulletin has the ability to do that.

[flavor4real]

oh ok .. thanks

[cyberphr]

If you want CGI,
go with eBlah,
it's completely made on Perl and needs no databases or anything.

http://www.eblah.com/

[Brollachan]

Ikonboard is Perl based and runs on DBM or MySQL and other database types (which I can't remember ofhand), though doesn't have the 'fee based link' option included. The forthcoming release from the Ikonboard team will be worth the wait.

...And yes I know their ruddy server's down again.