phpBB

phpBB Features

• Simple installation that will have you up and running in minutes
• Complete upgrade from V1.x

• phpBB uses a database abstraction layer to enable seamless support of several database servers:
  
  
• MySQL 3.2x,
• PostgreSQL 7.x,
• Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000
• Microsoft Access (via ODBC)
• ...with more databases available in the future

• Designed with security as a priority
• Powerful and extensive authorisation system
• Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
• Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions

• Unlimited forums can be organised into as many categories as you like
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups
• Powerful search facility

• 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

• 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

• Unlimited members
• Personal profile creation
• Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
• Email-like private messaging system
• Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars

• 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

• General configuration
• Forum & category setup
• Easy database backup and restore
• Disallowed usernames
• User authorisation
• 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

• 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 colours with cascading style sheets (CSS)
• Active community creating addons and specialised modifications
• Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C

• All supported by an increasingly large, thriving and friendly community of members from all over the world ready to help with any problems, suggestions or just for general discussion.