After owning a phpbb board and upgrading to vBulletin, here is all I have to say:

If you cannot see the difference that vBulletin will give you, then it probably is not for you.

I used to run on a phpbb board and I have to admit that phpbb is a very good free board, but vbulletin is just for the ones who demand something more.
Something safer, better, easier and with a lot more features.

Dude this is a moot point now.

vBulletin is better, i don't care about other peoples stupid opinions. I am right, nobody can prove me wrong, i admit i am not always right but i know i am right in this case. If you think phpBB is better, please die!

vbulliten is good board but more poeple who wants a good forum
phpbb for poeple who have small sites or want to have a guest book

phpbb faster but vbulliten slower because it has java and lot of settings
and vbulliten is better 1 millions time than phpbb

phpbb is a bugs forum lots of problems.

and thanks

I was a user of Phpbb and recently switched to Vbulletin and after using Phpbb for going on 3 years, I have to say Vbulletin is by far the better software.

I've used phpbb2 for 3 years, and now I've used vb for 2..
If a friend wants a little forum made up I'll suggest phpbb2, If the same friend wants to make a professional site, then I'll suggest vb ;)

both scripts do a great job

I used phpbb with phpnuke and i loved it..made me want to get the best forum there was, i came across a forum i really liked, noticed it was some vbulletin software, did some searching and found vb.org vb.com vbhackers etc. Realising this software had serious backing by a great community really sold vb for me and i took the plunge to fork out for software.

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All the hack mod PHPbb has, vBulletin also has. I used to own PHPbb found it had too many critical security flaws, too many new patch releases.

1. VBulletin has threaded view display and registration filtering by ip and email addresses and many other functions which PHPbb does not have. It is worth the upgrade to vbulletin. You get what you pay for in this case.

2. Same in difficulty as in PHPbb

3. Yes, I transfer existing PHPbb members and post made by PHPbb users to VBullitin using the admin control panel, it is tricky after that as users fit under a special category migrated users. This special status is just a special status, these users are 100% like regular users, good programmers like to keep track of every transaction for debugging purpose. The support is very quick you enail email them and get quick response.