Which do u think is better? in terms of support, easy of understanding, functionality, etc

please give reason(s) where necessary

SMF and PHPBB have same equality of understanding how to use it easily, functionality, forum support, and very popular in the USA and around the world.

Both are PHP-based you need to know how to modify, add, upload files/theme/add-on modules upon your own taste of forum yourself basically.

I have read both SMF and PHPBB community forum seeing how many out there are FIRST-TIMERS are frustrated understanding to set up, manage, modify, add, their own forum without their knowledge of PHP/HTML they often seek for help using forum community forum.

Some do hire PHP programmer to do the job for them.

But THE FIRST-TIMERS are gratefully that both SMF and PHPBB has its experimential forum for testing to see how they like the looks before doing the real FORUM in order to avoid mess up REAL FORUM losing all data.

Finally, I myself did not install or obtain forum but help out other who are not familiarized with PHP/MySQL/HTML to modify their forum they want.

Good luck for those who want to try out either SMF or PHPBB uploading their web hosting server with their own domain name.

I use SMF and it's so easy to use. I've never tried any
other but SMF suits me fine.

How do u add google adsense to SMF.

Thanks

SMF is more flexible than phpbb.

i have used both, i think i prefer SMF for now

i think mybb is the best

Well i think this is a case of one mans meat cliche.
I love SMF like nothing else.
Reason : I can almost do anything with it.
I tried PhpBB for a short time ,
its great but i didnt use it enough to compare it with SMF.

@FREELANCE ABOVE.

I will help u on the adsense stuff for free.
It my pressure to help people laugh.