Discussion Boards

M-phorum is a small & fast forum, written in PHP with MySQL backend. Already a few features in it, still more to come. Already put admin centre in it, and smilies.

GrimForum is a good-looking forum system with professionally designed graphics. Colours are user-definable, and there are many different admin levels for members. It runs fast, with lockable topics private messaging, and more.

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

PHP/MySQL-based board that runs very stable extremly fast even on large sites like www.thewall.de/forum/. Features: MySQL Support, usergroups, private messaging, news backend with comment function, avatars, statistics, multilingual installer, highly customizable with themes and hacks.

Simple forum based on PuszBaza 1.2.2. You don't need anything else to use it (Only PHP4). Example of this forum you can find at http://puszkin.valkiria.net/forum/tematy.php?idkat=3&jezyk=ang.

BiTBOARD 2.5 is the latest release of the BiTSHiFTERS Bitbaord forum software. It is an internet bulletin-board software basing on a flatfile data storage system which means that no SQL support is needed. BiTBOARD has been created to safe yourself from overbloated BB systems. It's fast, easy and small. Version 2.5 includes a greatly improved admin system, user management, user registration, banning and more. Give it a chance!

The Talkboard Forum tries to mix the good features of other forums and its own ideas. It uses a MySQL database and extended classes, like templates. Specials are publickey authentication, virtual linking of threads and enhanced banning capabilities.

b^2 is a PHP bulletin board that uses a MySQL database. Installation is easy, it only takes minutes.

This is a little discussion board which does not use MySQL and uses text files instead. Written in French.

eForum is an easy-to-install discussion board that doesn't require any database. Features include admin area to delete topics with session authentication, a search system (more stable this version), configurable layout using css file. Moderator can be notified of new posts on the forum. It has threaded view. Ubbcode-style supported. Multiple languages supported: Portuguese, English, German and Danish. UPDATE 0.4: post preview, better ubbcode support, better javascript, other small changes, some bugs fixed, italian and turkish translations.

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.

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!..

fxboard is a fairly advanced free opensource php/mysql bulletin board system. Some of the features include: user registration, admin control panel, fully templated, delete and move threads, delete and edit posts, smileys, bb code (and auto bb code inserter), search, member list, users online count, and more.

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.

JBB is an easy to install Bulletin Board System based on php4 and MySQL. This is the first beta release yet still includes a lot of features. Currently, looking for developers and designers to join the project.

WMForum is a very simple discussion board program writen in PHP. It doesn't use any SQL database.

This forum has been developed for PHP-beginners. It has a very simple template system and the code is easy to understand. The forum is prepared for PHP5.

FunkBoard is a simple PHP-based message board which uses MySQL on backend. It features member system, categories for forums, new-improved admin system and is straightforward to set up and use.

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.

Prattle is a room-based message-board system written in PHP4. It is built on an organizational model that considers conversations to be topically linear, not threaded. Messages are grouped into discussion rooms, hence the "room-based" reference. Prattle's linear discussion model encourages serious conversations to grow, with continuous give and take, rather than encouraging the short-burnout exchanges that you see in threaded systems. Prattle is not particularly good at, nor is it intended for, question/answer message boards. Prattle uses a MySQL database on backend for data handling.