Discussion Boards

YapBB is a PHP/MySQL-driven software that allows you to set up your own forum board on your site. Some of its current features include: Full featured bulletin board system, Full configurability, server-side, Many per-user options using a cookie-based system, Different authentication levels, Optionally count the views for a topic to see how popular it is, Optionally spread out long topic-lists and topics over multiple pages to save on load times, A complete set of emoticons for us in messages, Special tags that allows you to mimic HTML functionality, Multiple moderators per forum, A hierarchical stucture of Categories, Forums, Topics and Posts, See which people are online on ICQ and send ICQ messages to those persons, See which people are logged in, Login once, and stay logged in until you closed your last browser window, Certain malicious pieces of texts are automatically filtered out, Complete control over HTML-tags in various fields, A password mailer, A special field in the user-table, which admins can use to store notes about certain users, and more.

freeScene PHPForum is a Web forum system built with PHP that uses a MySQL database on backend. Current features include: Multiple forums, page navigation, E-Mail followups, E-Mail verification, templates, clickable http:// urls and more.

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.

sdb is a PHP/PostgreSQL-based simple discussion board program. Main features include: 11 possible levels of page access, Configurable fonts/colors/title images, Automated user account set up where user is required to have a valid email address, and more.

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.