Adding forum to a site!!

[Morroco]

Hi people, I have site on travel and tourism and now I want to add forum on its web page without any banners, pop-ups or advertisements.

I wonder if you people can give me free forum codes.

Thanks!!!!

[Rano]

phpBB is free to use

[Luke Beale]

SMF is also free to use.

[Di]

I would so go with SMF before phpbb, not that I don't see many good sites running it, but its a personal choice. I like Smf's admin section better than bb'.s Also, there are so many exploit's out for phpbb its insane.

[Doskono]

phpBB is more user friendly... PHPBB3 is Sweet!

[HMTKSteve]

phpbb lacks good anti-spam tools, don't use it.

[Luke Beale]

Originally Posted by HMTKSteve

phpbb lacks good anti-spam tools, don't use it.

They have a few mods to stop spamming.

[Doskono]

Yea, I believe they cured it with the phpbb3...

[Hafsoh]

Yeah i prefer SMF to phpbb3

[Nuvo]

PHP:
Invision Power Board: Commercial and not that good to be honest (compared to vBulletin).
vBulletin: Commercial and one of the better PHP forum packages available.
Simple Machines Forum \ SMF: One of the best free forum packages around, though I know of at least one site which has issues with it, but the code they use has been heavily modified and they do have nearly 35400 members.
PunBB: I've not had much experience with this one, but it's free.
phpBB: phpBB2 was ok, but not great and I've yet to use the phpBB3 branch, which is supposedly better... Free.
XMB: Free, but I've not used it.
A site I used to staff at was caught in a small dispute with XMB after taking over the development of another forum system called FlashBB.
FlashBB's original developers had supposedly used XMB code and tried to pass it off as their own... We dropped FlashBB a short time later because of these issues.

Ruby:
RForum: Small and lightweight Rails based forum... Not the same as vB or phpBB though.
Beast: Lightweight and free Ruby on Rails based forum system that's still being developed, but which is far enough along to be usable.

Perl:
Ikonboard: Free, but I've only had very limited usage of it as I avoid Perl where possible.
Yabb forum: Free, but dogged by stability issues, which is why the team that were porting it to PHP created SMF from the wreckage of the YABB SE PHP port.

Get vB if you can afford it, but SMF is highly recommended as well.

I've been on a number of forum dev teams thanks to being a member of Teencoderz when the site was still going.
These include FlashBB (skinner and minor developer), Interforum \ IF (never got off the ground despite initially looking good... I was up as a skinner), BirdBoard (I don't know what happened to this, but it was going well and it's still on Sourceforge, so I may revive it).
I've also tried building my own, but I had little experience with big apps like that at the time, and there was no super cool database abstracting, smart routing frameworks out then (not that I need them now, but Rails is so much fun when you don't have to juggle 10 different SQL dialects).