determine forum type

[Hillside]

is there a tool that automatically determines what type of forum a site has? ex. vbulletin, phpbb2, phpbb3?

Hillside Reviewed by Hillside on 2nd Nov 2010. determine forum type is there a tool that automatically determines what type of forum a site has? ex. vbulletin, phpbb2, phpbb3? Rating: 5

[SalmanAbbas007]

Yes there is.. Its name is Brain i guess

[SuicidalMedia]

You just view source of the page if they removed the copyright, if you used many forum scripts you'll know which script is forum using by just looking at it.

[soft2050]

lol
Agree With This Person.

[TheTorrentSeller]

Pretty helpful posts in this thread, I can't agree more about such spamming, anyways

I use this way when I was newbie, now I can find out automatically as I got used to the different type of forums.

Let me make few examples for you about my way :

An example of VBulletin board :

Go to KWWHunction home page, and hover ( put your mouse pointer without clicking) the mouse on a section name let's say :

Introductions

You will find the link looks like the following :

http://www.besthostingforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4

Which is special for VBulletin.


For phpbb or phpbb3

Example :

http://www.warez-bb.org/

looks like this :

Introduction

http://www.warez-bb.org/viewforum.ph...5cfd8e90c43e06

IPB ( I'm not pretty sure in this type of boards )


Introductions

http://**************/forum/24-introductions/


But, you might get confused between IPB and Vbulletin using VBSEO, as they look pretty similar

Will give you a solution for this in a sec

Edit,
Solution :

In IPB, when you hover a mouse on ( or the link to ) start a new thread will look like :
forum name .com /index.php?app=forums&module=post&section=post&do=n ew_post&f=24


But in VBulletin :

http://www.besthostingforums.com/new...newthread&f=53

Easy and simple in VBulletin, a little complicated in IPB, and very complicated url in phpbb/3

Hope this help

Good luck, and you will use to the quality of members we have here on KWWH, I'm sorry, the quality of kids

[Hillside]

Thank You