Comments on: vBulletin VS. Invision Power Board

By: Felix

Felix — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:24:04 +0000

The newer features of IPB to integrate with Twitter and Facebook give it the edge for me.

By: kenny

kenny — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:01:25 +0000

I have test both vB and IPB. I think the best is IPB overall.
The latest IPB 3 don’t provide games anymore, unless a mod but still the default theme just look great. I herd that vB still have few problem of optimize skin in their newest version. Ipb also provide a few apps that vB don’t.

Most of the skin will temp you with the look, make sure the color choice is matching not to choose a skin that don’t even suit your need.

By: Morningstar

Morningstar — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:55:42 +0000

This is just another one of those personal use and opinion debates. You’ll never be able to say that vB is superior to IPB or vice versa, since they both offer EXTREMELY similar software, with only minor differences.
Overall:
-IPB: Simple, Attractive, Fast, Great Support
-vB: Expansive, Customizable, Large Scale, Professional

I only say “large scale” because I feel that vBulletin does a better job at managing categories, as if it’s making the user feel like there are multiple forums within a single forum site, feels more open ended. IPB feels more compact on the forum end, very easy to post and use the limited features with ease, but it has a feel to it like it’s more small scale. vBulletin fits into a CMS quite well, meshing with your website as if it’s part of your site, not a separate support section.

By: JasonX

JasonX — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:36:59 +0000

the only problem with vBulletin is finding decent template skins… they all seem to be corporate.. i need a clubbing dance music skin and to date Havant forum one as good as the IPB skins… why is this?

By: Hakusan

Hakusan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:26:25 +0000

I’m looking to get my own hosting plan, and I’m just looking to get if you have any opinion regarding the best hosting company…

Regarding my website stat:

250 Daily visitor
2 Domain
2 Data transfert needed
10 Bandwitch included

Many thanks for helping, any advice are welcome

By: Pagan

Pagan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:44:08 +0000

I’ve used a number of Forum scripts from SMF, PHPBB2 and 3, to VBulliten and IPB. Out of that group I liked IPB the best, the support was also excellent. But my requirements grew beyond just a basic Forum so I went into the world of CMS’s. Then like BB scripts I tried a number of them from Joomla to Expression Engine and decided on Drupal. Drupal with the Advanced Forum Module along with a number of others I’ve been extremely happy with.

But back on topic, IPB v3 is really a nice script if you’re looking to run only a forum, the permissions and security are rather well thought out. Which in todays world of the net tight and easily managed Security is a must.

Cheers

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:35:49 +0000

I think I like the Invision business model. They now have 3 products that all tie in together.

By: McArrow

McArrow — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:42:59 +0000

> Each team has created some well-written OOP code

Where did you find an OOP code in vBulletin’s sources? I’ve not seen sources of IPB yet, but I think that there is no OOP too…

By: 3magin8

3magin8 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:50:52 +0000

Thanks for the info.
Ive been a dedicated user of IPB
and was thinking about trying vB out.
I think I will because coding takes a long time for me.

By: Ex

Ex — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:31:54 +0000

Hi, great post, it helped me a lot, though I’m still not sure what to use. I hope IPB will fix their lacks until version 3.0 and that it’ll come out soon. It seems much cooler , smoother and more powerful to me, but after a few researches I must agree with You that vB has way better mods…

Thanks!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:02:05 +0000

I’m pretty sure both softwares have the options to show attachment based on usergroup settings

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:59:42 +0000

Does either product have the ability to not show attachments except to logged in users? Thanks

Ryan

By: Invision Power vs. vBulletin re-visited: SkeyMedia

Invision Power vs. vBulletin re-visited: SkeyMedia — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:03:36 +0000

[...] been a and a half year since I first left my impressions on the two systems. My original post received a lot of negative responses from both communities. I was called an IPB fanboy at [...]

By: briansol

briansol — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:26:48 +0000

Thanks for the comments, nitr021.

Would you care to share the code you use on this?

By: nitr021

nitr021 — Thu, 11 May 2006 06:47:02 +0000

One thing ipb should have won is the template logic because ipb has a if, else function and if you read the source carefully you can add foreach on the template logic.

to do if on ipb you need to do

the first test is without $ because the logic already ads it

to get ipsclass information just use ipb.vars etc…..

Its prettty good you can set variables in global settings under admincp and then you can use them in the html logic. like for example you could have the var “ads_on”

then in the logic you can use

//display ads