PHP Discussion Boards

Invision Power Board (IPB) is a professional forum system that has been built from the ground up with speed and security in mind, taking advantage of object oriented code, highly-optimized SQL queries, and the fast PHP engine. A comprehensive administration control panel is included to help you keep your board running smoothly. Moderators will also enjoy the full range of options available to them via built-in tools and moderators control panel. Members will appreciate the ability to subscribe to topics, send private messages, and perform a host of other options through the user control panel....
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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....
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DZOIC Handshakes is the best solution for building your own social networking service, just like Friendster, Facebook or MySpace. Handshakes is fully customizable and easy to use. It is delivered together with 100% Open PHP, PSD and FLA sources giving you a full control over completely every part of the script. Key features: powerful admin console, install guide, social bookmarking, tag clouds, profiles (admin can modify profile questions), audio and video blogging, voice and video messaging, audio and video comments, video chat, image voting, classifieds, events and calendar, clubs, music and videos, FLV and MP3 players, e-cards, forum, polls, bulletins, flash chat and instant messenger, address book import (supports Yahoo!, GMail, AOL, Hotmail, MSN, MySpace), PayPal IPN support. If you are looking for an ideal social networking portal solution then you have just found it!...
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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.

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....
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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....
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XMB is a free message board powered by PHP and MySQL. The extensive control panel allows extreme control over all aspects of the message board system including these features...unlimited posts, forums, members, administration panel, members panel, multiple themes, word censors, user ranks, custom titles, member list, whos online, BBCode, HTML, Instant Messenger, flood control, thread administration options, bump, top, delete, open, close, move and more. Avatars, sub-forums, post pruning, smilies, polls, forum/post subscriptions, favourites, custom templates, FAQ, attachments, COPPA support and more. XMB 1.9 Nexus features new security to prevent from mass registration, IP monitoring and fake registration processes....
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PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards. PunBB has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages....
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miniBB ("mini bulletin board") is a branded free web forum software script written in PHP for creating an online virtual community, with the revolutionary concept of using a few very simple elements to the maximum effect, which also affects its high performance and suitable interface. 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. It is CSS- and XHTML-templates based (W3C compatible), SEO-optimized with addition of mod_rewrite, could support various databases (mySQL by default), translated in more than 40 languages. Integrates easily into your web site's layout and/or external members authorization schema. Qualified software support and service are provided by it's authors....
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L-Forum is a simple set of PHP scripts providing discussion forum to your web site. Features: full threading support, PostgreSQL and MySQL support, multiple design themes support, multiple language support, collapsing threads, removal of messages thru administration page, file upload, moderated forums and banning IP's from posting. ...
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freeForum is a free, simple, and multilingual discussion board script which can be fully integrated with your existing page layout. It concentrates on the main features of typical forum scrips, and does it well. With freeForum, you are free: free to post, free to add categories, free to change the layout, and free to integrate it in you site. It's simple: no image, no avatar, no smilies, no useless statistics, fully CSS and template based. It's easy for the administrator: backup and restore functions, captcha images, IP banning, flood protection, smart forms, open and closed categories, reserved user names... The multilingual interface is available in English, French, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Bosnian, Italian, and Indonesian. freeForum is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL). ...
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A message board that is ideal for webmasters who don't need or want big forums on their sites. It doesn't require any SQL databases. It stores all posts as HTML pages (to minimize the load on your server) and features smileys, instant new post notification, easy deletion of inappropriate posts, style customization and more. It even comes with e-mail protection against SPAM harvesters and a bad words filter which will replace all bad words with ****. You can modify the look by editing header/footer and style files....
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Zorum is an easy to install Web-based forum, message board, or bulletin board. It requires a MySQL database,and the PHP4 script module. Features include: web based easy install, embedded administration, personalization, moderators, password reminder, post blocking rules, bb code, mark unread messages, subscriptions, attachments, ratings, polls, smilies, word censoring, search, statistics and more....
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WowBB is PHP/MySQL powered forum software that offers innovative features such a WYSIWYG editor with integrated spell-checker, advanced private messaging, mailing-list style (instant or digest) forum watching, a visual CSS editor with real-time preview, paid subscriptions, and search engine friendly URLs....
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ADP Forum is a discussion board system that doesn't use any database, but instead stores all the data in txt files. The forum is highly customizable, you can easily edit: colours, fonts, icons. There is a detailed readme file that explains how to install. It features: user authentication, member ratings, avatars, configuration panel, administration, email notifications, smiley option, edit and delete options. Languages available: English, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Bosnian....
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ImperialBB is an advanced PHP/MySQL driven forum software package. It is quick and easy to install and has an automatic upgrader function to quickly install upgrades and mods from the click of a link. (Without the need for special privileges on the running server, just an FTP account!!) Latest features include sub-forums and advanced rank system. And best of all, its free!...
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