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.

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
  
  Unlimited Forums & Categories
  
  
• Unlimited forums can be organized 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 Center
  
  
• General configuration
  
• Forum & category setup
  
• Easy database backup and restore
  
• Disallowed usernames
  
• User authorization
  
• 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 Customization
  
  
• 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 colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)
  
• Active community creating addons and specialized modifications
  
• Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C
  

Can I see a Demo and get more info?

Visit the phpBB website at:
http://www.phpbb.com

Where can I get support for this product?
CasaHosting provides easy install of these scripts, support is obtained by visiting the developers support forum at:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB