What is phpBB?
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.
Who are phpBB?
phpBB are a group of individuals based
internationally who believe in Open Source software. The
project has been stable since its creation in June 2000
without changes in licensing, leadership or corporate
associations. Our goals remain unchanged and clear, to
continue developing and supporting a stable, free, Open
Source forum system.
Key Features
| Database Server
Support |
- 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.
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 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
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Unlimited
Forums & Categories |
- phpBB Unlimited forums can be
organized into as many
categories as you like
- Private forums and those
only for specified user groups
- Powerful search facility
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Posting
Messages |
- phpBB 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
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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
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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
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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
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Easy
to Use Administration Centre |
- phpBB 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
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Style
and Customization |
- Multiple styles available
for the user to choose from
- Templates separated from the
PHP forum 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
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Support |
- All this is supported by an
increasingly large, thriving and
friendly community of phpBB
forum members
from all over the world ready to
help with any problems,
suggestions or just for general
discussion!
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