phpBB
Official phpBB website www.phpBB.com
 phpBB is a high
powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable 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.
phpBB
is based on PHP, the fastest growing server-side scripting language
on the web, which results in one of the fastest, feature-rich bulletin
board systems available anywhere.
In
addition, phpBB is open-source software so it has no fees, no subscriptions,
and no restrictions on modifications. Couple this with a thriving
and friendly phpBB community and you have a killer solution for
creating communities on your site!
Cost
of phpBB:
Monthly Fee: Free with all of our hostingaccounts
Main
Features
- Supports
MySQL database
- Powerful
Search Utility
- Private
Messaging System
- Private
or Public Forums
- Unlimited
Forums/Posts
Security
- 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 & Categories
- Unlimited
forums can be organised into as many categories as you like
- Private
forums and those only for specified user groups
- Powerful
search facility
Posting
Messages
- 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
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
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
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
Easy
to Use Administration Centre
- 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
Style
and Customisation
- 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
Overall
phpBB is a feature rich forums package that can be easily integrated
with your web site.
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