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phpBB
posted byjamesinDiscussion Boards
phpBB is a fast, efficient discussion board program built in PHP with a muti-database backend. Features include: posting, replying, private messages, polls, username/ip banning, strong encryption for storing passwords, user rankings, very advanced access control for private forums, full templating, simple yet robust translation system and much more.
Reviews38
PriceFree
Views194064
PunBB
posted byKennelinDiscussion Boards
PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards. PunBB has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages.
Reviews8
PriceFree
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Simple Machines Forum (SMF)
posted byjbfunginDiscussion Boards
Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources. Some of our features include:
COMPREHENSIVE THEMES: Not only can you control the default theme for your community, but you can also allow your users to select from a range of themes themselves
BLAZING-FAST DATABASE: Not only do we make use of a MySQL back-end, but we've also gone to great lengths to ensure the database design is fast and efficient
SECURE FILE ATTACHMENTS: Our special file-attaching system allows your users to attach files without fear of corrupting your system.
AUTOMATIC MOD INSTALLATION: Unique to SMF is our package manager - a system by which you can download and install upgrades and modifications with just a few mouse-clicks
SSI HOOKS & API: SMF was specifically designed to be easily integrated with other software projects - use our SSI hooks and API to easily plug SMF into the rest of your site
Reviews56
PriceFree
Views50459
miniBB
posted bypaulinDiscussion Boards
miniBB ("mini bulletin board") is a branded free web forum software script written in PHP for creating an online virtual community, with the concept of using a few very simple elements to the maximum effect, which also affects its top performance, suitable interface, and extreme security. It includes the most common functions for any kind of an Internet forum and could be extended with a lot of high quality original add-ons, incl. the Mobile layout for smartphones. The code runs with on W3C compatible CSS- and HTML-templates, SEO-optimized with an addition of mod_rewrite incl. keywords-rich URLs, could support various databases (mySQL by default), translated in more than 40 languages. Integrates easily into your web site's layout and/or external membership. Qualified software support and service are provided straight by its author. The Compiler tool allows to embed the functions related to your forum only, by a click - NOW, you can build *your own* forum in a minute!..
Reviews5
PriceFree
Views70273
W-Agora
posted bymdruilheinDiscussion Boards
More than "just another web BBS/forum software", w-Agora (Web-Agora) is a powerful database-driven communications system designed to be adapted to a various needs.
Features: Threaded or flat discussions, attachments, Users managements, private forums, Multiple sites & forums, Multi-languages support, Fully customizable using templates, Full web-based admin panel, statistics, Multi-Database support, Search engine, WYSIWYG editor, and more... Commercial support is available.
Reviews3
PriceFree
Views121716
PBLang
posted byPBLanginDiscussion Boards
Now updated to version 4.60! PBLang is a multilingual, SQL-independent, versatile forum software based on PHP. It offers most features which you find in commercial forum software. Email-notification of replies, configurable membership-levels, avatars, private messages, closed mode (only logged-in users can view the board), limitable attachments, configurable UI to match your website, access-restricted forums and many more. It's fast and secure, and can handle large numbers of members and messages. With version 4.60, speed and reliability have been greatly improved. Many new features were added. 20 languages are supported.
The package 4.60 is available from sourceforge.net
Reviews3
PriceFree
Views11491
Ultimate PHP Board
posted byrr_pilotinDiscussion Boards
Ultimate PHP Board is a full featured discussion board/forum that uses our in-house produced text database system. We aim to offer the same features as any of the large SQL based forums but without ANY of the SQL mess and to do it FAST. All of our code is written to maximize speed in a textdb environment. UPB is administered completly online using an easy to use control panel; setup in minutes; easy upgrades; very active and friendly development team that helps you out with any problem you have.
Reviews5
PriceFree
Views121132
Phorum
posted bybrianlmooninDiscussion Boards
Phorum is a little different from the other web based message boards out there. It was designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features.
Reviews13
PriceFree
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Quick.Forum - freeware and fast message board
posted bytreewoodinDiscussion Boards
Freeware, fast, simple, and multilingual message board. It is based on text files and features a search engine, categories, and filters. There is full administration for topics, answers, and categories. Forum topics are displayed in a single window with color differentiation between categories. Categories can be filtered on a per-user basis.
Reviews2
PriceFree
Views20035
MBoard PHP message board
posted bykstirninDiscussion Boards
A message board that is ideal for webmasters who don't need or want big forums on their sites. It doesn't require any SQL databases. It stores all posts as HTML pages (to minimize the load on your server) and features smileys, instant new post notification, easy deletion of inappropriate posts, style customization and more. It even comes with e-mail protection against SPAM harvesters and a bad words filter which will replace all bad words with ****. You can modify the look by editing header/footer and style files.
Reviews10
PriceFree
Views33461
WowBB
posted byaycaninDiscussion Boards
WowBB is PHP/MySQL powered forum software that offers innovative features such a WYSIWYG editor with integrated spell-checker, advanced private messaging, mailing-list style (instant or digest) forum watching, a visual CSS editor with real-time preview, paid subscriptions, and search engine friendly URLs.
Reviews8
PriceFree
Views39964
Simple Forum PHP
posted bynevenovinDiscussion Boards
You need a simple forum or discussion board on your website - Simple Forum PHP is very easy for install and administration. Visitors to your website will be able to create threads or discuss other topics. The administration of the script is so simple, so anyone with minimum knowledge of websites can work on it.
Here are some important features:
* Search for topics;
* Sticky topics(stay above the other topics);
* CSS could be controlled via admin area or css file;
* Any language support;
* Options to choose from four types of captcha verifications for topic/reply form;
* Set default time zone in case your web server is on different time zone;
* RSS feed;
* Latest PHP/HTML code standards;
* Open source code, so anyone with code knowledge will be able to modify the script;
* FREE INSTALLATION ON YOUR WEBSITE
Reviews10
PriceUSD 49.99
Views9749
freeForum
posted byzoneodudeinDiscussion Boards
freeForum is a free, simple, and multilingual discussion board script which can be fully integrated with your existing page layout. It concentrates on the main features of typical forum scrips, and does it well. With freeForum, you are free: free to post, free to add categories, free to change the layout, and free to integrate it in you site. It's simple: no image, no avatar, no smilies, no useless statistics, fully CSS and template based. It's easy for the administrator: backup and restore functions, captcha images, IP banning, flood protection, smart forms, open and closed categories, reserved user names... The multilingual interface is available in English, French, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Bosnian, Italian, Indonesian, Serbian, and Macedonian. freeForum is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL).
Reviews2
PriceFree
Views32545
Advanced Electron Forums (AEF)
posted bypulgupinDiscussion Boards
The full name of AEF is Advanced Electron Forum. This bulletin board software is free software. It is written in PHP and MySQL.
Some great feautures that users speak of :
1) WYSIWYG Editors
2) JS DOCK for easy navigation(A first from AEF)
3) Customizable Themes
4) News System with articles
5) ShoutBox
6) Calendar
7) Report Posts
8) Suggest Framework
9) Threaded Mode for topics
10) Preview Posts
11) Users who have read a topic
12) RSS Feeds
13) Smart Redirects
14) Group Legends
15) Domdrag for reordering Categories, Forums, emoticons (A new feature included for the first time ever in a forum software.) These are just some of the features.
16) Database and file backup from within the Admin CP.
17) Multiple Languages
18) UTF-8 Supported
19) Search Engine Optimization Tools
20) IP Ban
21) W3C Validated
AEF has a very simple and easy to use Administration Panel and installing this software is a piece of cake! You can install new themes, customize themes the way you want.
Reviews5
PriceFree
Views11026
Elite Bulletin Board
posted bydarkcarnivalinDiscussion Boards
Elite Bulletin Board is an advanced bulletin board program that provides advanced features such as CAPTCHA, sub-board, skinning ability, multilingual, commercial-grade password encryption, and much more.
Reviews0
PriceFree
Views15461
RedKernel V.S. (Very Secure) Forum
posted bywebmasterinDiscussion Boards
RedKernel V.S. (Very Secure) Forum is a file based forum. It is very secure, very powerful and optimized for referencing.
It write static Html pages so it do not need a powerful server and can handle a lot of traffic even on a slow server.
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Views8139
Viscacha
posted bymamoinDiscussion Boards
Viscacha is a free bulletin board system with an integrated content management system. The intention of the software engineers is to combine the current standards with new and user friendly features. The system supports plugins and components for easily extending the core system. Viscacha uses an database abstraction layer to support as many databases as possible. Currently there is only a layer for the open source database engine MySQL.
With this software you can easily set up a complete (personal) homepage. The CMS perfectly extends the bulletin board system to have a homepage which is connected to the community.
Reviews2
PriceFree
Views8231
Unclassified NewsBoard
posted byLonelyPixelinDiscussion Boards
Complete bulletin board system like wBB, IPB or vB, only free of charge. Very easy installation and usage. Jabber IM support. Very powerful access rights management. Full Unicode support. Multiple designs and languages. Polls, avatars, attachments. Runs on PHP4/5 and MySQL.
Reviews0
PriceFree
Views5786
PBBoard forum ( Power Bulletin Board )
posted byPBBoardinDiscussion Boards
Based on PHP 5.x.x >= 5.5.0 and MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported), PBBoard is a powerful, scalable and fully customisable forums package for your web site
. Key features: Comprehensive templates system, Easy to upgrade from other bulletin board systems, Powerful search engine, Powerful administrative functionality, User email notification of answered posts, Support for smilies, PBB Code or HTML in messages, User profiles, Ultimated number of moderators per forum, User groups, Private forums, Word censor facility, Ban users based on IP address or email address, User-specific local time zone support, New posts identification, Moderation queues on posting and registration
Reviews1
PriceFree
Views5053
X.Forum
posted byamraninDiscussion Boards
X.Forum is a forum application that uses smarty as the template engine and MVC style application. It extracts the forum to 3 tier application that's easier to modify if someone want to change it to some database interface for e.g MySQL, PostgreSQL. It supports cache using Smarty Cache function, making this forum faster loading for the 2nd time.
Reviews0
PriceFree
Views14522