Message boards allow members to participate in on-going, in-depth
discussions. Lively message board communities are a great place to debate
issues, find advice, and make new friends.
phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable open-source
bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface,
simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the
powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or
Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all
web sites.
Supports popular database servers
Unlimited forums and posts
Multiple language interface
Private or public forums
Powerful search utility
Private messaging system
Complete customization with templates
Overview
phpBB focuses on a professional-quality modular design, high security,
multiple-language interface, support for a multitude of databases servers and
complete layout customization, all with a low execution overhead. phpBB is based
on PHP, the fastest growing server-side scripting language on the web, which
results in one of the fastest, feature-rich bulletin board systems available
anywhere.
In addition, phpBB is open-source software so it has no fees, no subscriptions,
and no restrictions on modifications. Couple this with a thriving and friendly
phpBB community and you have a killer solution for creating communities on your
site!
Security
Designed with security as a priority
Powerful and extensive authorization system
Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions
Unlimited Forums & Categories
Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like
Private forums and those only for specified user groups
Powerful search facility
Posting Messages
Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing
quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
Polls can be simply added to posts
Email notification of replies to your topics
Powerful topic subscription capability
Original emoticons to portray emotions
Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions
Powerful forum, user and group permission management
Control forum access to specified user groups
Control all aspects of the posting experience
Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options
Member Features
Unlimited members
Personal profile creation
Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
Email-like private messaging system
Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars
Moderation Features
Topic editing
Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
Topic splitting
Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis
Easy to Use Administration Centre
General configuration
Forum & category setup
Easy database backup and restore
Disallowed usernames
User authorization
Word censoring
Complete member management
Emoticon setup
Optional new post verification
Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or
single/multiple IP address or hostname
IP tracking of posts and posters
Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator
Style and Customization
Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
Templates separated from the PHP code so that new layouts can easily be
created or integrated with your current site design
Complete control of fonts and colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)
Active community creating add-ons and specialized modifications
Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from
the W3C
Support All this is supported by a thriving and friendly community of almost 6000
members there to help with any problems, suggestions or just for general
discussion!
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