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Ammerum a PHP and MySQL based forum similar to the popular German newsticker "Heise Online" aterr a threaded forum system; allowing registered visitors to express their opinions, discuss topics, and debate with other visitors. A threaded forum system differs from regular, flat forum systems in that once posted, a thread can fork, allowing visitors to reply directly to other posts. aterr also provides a customisable permissions system, the ability to nest forums, and moderation tools AtomicBoard AtomicBoard is an advanced template-based bulletin board framework written in PHP 4. Its design goals are flexibility, extensibility, and maintainability. B Squared a bulletin board system developed in PHP, using a MySQL database. The software is still in the beta stage of development, so don't be suprised if you run into problems installing / running the board Baal Smart Form Baal Smart Forms is an easy-to-install discussion group application that supports most normal form features found on other systems such as registered users, viewing without registration, and administrators who manage posts and the bulletin board. Bazooka Board a very simple bulletin board system which requires NO database. It uses nothing more than a single text-file on your web server for its data storage board-tnk a discussion board written in PHP. It performs very secure URL checking and supports multiple forums BoardMod BoardMod is a tool to manage installed modifications in YaBB bulletin boards. CGIForum CGIForum is a highly configurable template-based discussion board. It supports expandable/collapsible threads of unlimited depth, name registration with password encryption, multiple sections from within a single script, previewing, searching, and marking of new entries. Classic Forum Classic Forum is a classical threaded forum that consists of a daemon that holds all data in RAM and client programs that query the daemon or use shared memory to retrieve the data. D-forum a free discussion form written in PHP3 ezPhpForum ezPhpForum is a forum system that is easy to install and use. It supports custom templates, pages with content, security settings, and more. FatBoard a forum that has some nice features like smiley replacement and quoting messages Forumtalk an Apache module and a server which, together, can be used to create high performance web forums Fruit Show Fruit Show is a minimalist forum package. It is based on the philosophy that social atmosphere is a by-product of software design. There's no registration and very few features for visitors. It's skinnable and easy to install. It also contains some unique moderation features. Fruit Show is intended for small sites that need an easy to use and accessible forum. FUDforum a robust, fully customizable and extremely scalable forums package. It uses a powerful & speedy combination of PHP & MySQL to create a highly portable solution HaveFnuBB HaveFnuBB is bulletin board software with the goals of being fast, light, and fun. Its strength resides in the modules that you can add to extend its functionality. IBank an image message board featuring forums, topics, and messages Jive Forums a flexible and extensible forum/BBS/community software that uses 100% Java technology Kagora Kagora is a web forum system, written in Perl, using a MySQL database backend. KBoard Forum KBoard Forum is a PHP/MySQL forum developed by Eric Newport that is designed to be lightweight and efficient but as fully featured as possible. It can be deployed with minimal configuration and there are easy-to-follow instructions included as code comments. L-Forum a free PHP-based bulletin board system featuring multiple forums, full threading and a highly optimized tree-drawing algorithm Lazarus Forum Lazarus Forum is a lightweight, easy to use forum software that can be installed with a minimum of fuss. It's a fairly close clone of the Joel on Software forums, or FruitShow. It supports posting without logging in, privacy-protected emailing from the forum, so that visitors can contact posters without the poster being forced to reveal their name, automatic link highlighting, HTML escaping, and simple formatting. lppf a Lightweight Portable Perl Forum. Its goal is not to provide a complete forum system but rather a simple SSI that is easy to integrate in a more complex Web site LX/LuelinX LX is an online forum community website designed with performance, security, and design in mind. Written in PHP5 and still under active development, but it is usable. MetaForum Blursoft MetaForum utilizes AJAX to generate a unique forum experience. Threads and posts auto-update in real time, with no refreshing required. Features a completely new normative moderation system, and some Web 2.0 enhancements such as LiveThreads, channel tagging, edit in place, and QuickQuoting. Open for beta testing. miniBB a flat linear (non-tree) version of highly customizable bulletin board. It inherits most popular features from the bulletin boards the planet has at this moment, with one exception: it is very small by size (2-5 times smaller than usual boards), very fast and free Monkey Boards Monkey Boards is a small, fast, and efficient message board systems to enable smaller Web sites to build virtual online communities where users post and reply to messages. Compared with other projects, this defining purpose is much more clearer and to-the-point. The project is different from other similar solutions mainly because it uses an SQLite database, whereas the majority currently require a MySQL server to be running somewhere. It will output clean and valid XHTML pages with external CSS stylesheets. Mortíforo Mortíforo is a simple web forum system with a modular authentication architecture. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is able to authenticate against a database and a LDAP server. MULogs a web based forum for viewing an mailing list archive of role-playing logs from a MUSH, MUX, MU* Multilinux Multilinux is a Django-based skeleton of a system for creating Internet and intranet sites. It includes a forum, a board, messages, user profiles, and a comment system. MyBestBB MyBestBB is a full-featured forum based on punBB. It adds many modifications and themes to the default punBB, including RSS feeds, subforums, the ability for an admin to move posts, easy smilies, easy polls, many improved themes, announcements and sticky topics, an activity barometer, an URL rewriting module, and more. Open Concepts Bulletin Board phpBB "Olympus" Fork which will strive to continue the honoured phpBB traditions of easy modification, freedom, and useablity, and also to improve upon development speed. OvBB OvBB is a light-weight and fast message board system that mimics vBulletin 2.x.x in both look and behavior, while incorporating new features and functionality. panFora (commercial) a full featured, high performance Web-based discussion forum system Pappalapapp a Guestbook / Forum / Discussion Board / Commenting System for the web in a single perl script PapyrusBB PapyrusBB is a forum that was designed specifically for use with WikyBlog. It's written in PHP with a MySQL backend, fully integrates with the WikyBlog system using the AJAX-enhanced interface, and is UTF-8 compatible. parlement parlement is a threaded forum and a mailing list, and also a voting system where every one can propose, vote, or delegate their vote (a delegation being for one post/mail/poll and its sub-threads). PForum see how easy it is to add discussion forums to your website. All you need to get going is a Linux or Solaris server and about 30 minutes or less Phorum a Web-based discussion software written in PHP phpBB a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable forums package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straight-forward administration panel phpBB Fetch All a modification to phpBB that displays data from the forum on any page of a website. It supports all phpBB versions from the 2.0.x branch phpBB Rivals phpBB Rivals is a gaming system that offers complete ladder, clan, and tournament scripts in one convenient package. It is highly customizable, expandable, and configurable with a pleasant GUI. phpBB3 Portal phpBB3 Portal is a simple portal add-on modification of phpBB3 Olympus which adds portal features. It's easy to use and improvable. XHTML and the UTF-8 character set are used in the files as in the phpBB3 version. phpMyBoard a simple messageboard for PHP/MySQL, easy to install, use and maintain phpMyFAQ a fully featured and database powered FAQ system. It includes user management, a rating option, and a forum system PHPTalk PHPTalk is a highly flexible message board system written in PHP using MySQL as a backend (though other DB's should work with the DB abstraction layer included). phpwsBB a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content manage system, version 0.9.3-1 or later. It features thread monitoring and administration, including marking threads sticky, locking threads, and forking messages off to new threads PhunkyBB PhunkyBB is a Web-based forum system that is distinguished by its use of XSL as its template language. By using XSL, PhunkyBB is able to run on several different platforms, not only in terms of operating system, but also programming language. At this time, it has only been tested and used on PHP, but some test runs have been done on Perl, Python, Tcl, and Ruby. Pocoo Pocoo is an open-source bulletin board written in Python. It provides an advanced plugin system with a component architecture which allows other developers to modify Pocoo to their liking without the need to touch existing source code. Because it uses SQLAlchemy, it is possible to use either MySQL, SQLite, Oracle or Postgres as storage backend. Prattle message board system a Web-based message board system that implements a linear "room" model similar to that employed by Web Crossing PunBB PunBB is a fast and lightweight discussion board. It is released under the GNU Public License. It's primary goal is to be the faster, smaller and less graphic alternative to otherwise excellent discussion boards like phpBB, Invision Power Board and vBulletin. PunBB Discussion Forums PunBB is a lightweight discussion forum that provides the essential features to host a thriving community. Quick Forum a fast, simple, and multilingual message board. It is based on text files and features a search engine, categories, and filters Quicksilver Forums Quicksilver Forums is a fast, feature rich bulletin board system. It is fully object oriented and optimized for speed, ease of use, and easy modification. It checks all inputs though a common interface, which drastically reduces the chances of exploitable bugs. A powerful and flexible skinning engine makes giving your board a new look very simple. An advanced permissions system allows for fine-grained group and user permissions. It is based on the popular MercuryBoard software. RBBS a bulletin board system with Web interface. Users of RBBS can post new articles, and can attach responses to existing articles. As the principal purpose of RBBS is to be used as such communication system as BBS, it is useful for individual use and for one-to-many communication Revo Forum Revo Forum aims to be one of the most powerful forum systems available. It aims to be both powerful and easy to install and use. Revo is not a clone of any forum. It combines the features found in other forum systems into a unique package. RPGBoard a WWWBoard-style message board script Shadowlands Forum Shadowlands Forum is a flexible, friendly, robust chatroom reachable via any telnet client. SimpleForum a forum that is made to work on all HTTP servers supporting CGI. It is very easy to configure, the script should be up and running in only 2 minutes time. You do not require knowledge of any programming language slash a database-driven news and message board, using mod_perl and MySQL. SmallBoardPHP SmallBoardPHP is a small message board. It uses a MySQL backend for speed. Tefinch Tefinch was originally a clone of the Heise Online discussion forum and has since been enhanced with a very flexibly themable interface. It uses a threaded layout in an attempt to avoid some of the limitations of flat forums. ThinkCode Web System a Python engine that provides a news, forum, and messaging system UseBB an easy-to-set up and easy-to-use Open Source PHP/MySQL bulletin board system with several user and administration possibilities, especially designed for small to medium sized Web sites which do not need the overdose of features found in other forum packages vBulletin a powerful, scalable and fully customisable forums package for your web site vtiger Forums a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package developed over phpBB. The vtiger Forums has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ W-Agora a web-based and customizable forum package. It allows you to install forums, BBS, guestbooks and all derived things WBB IRC Postbot Postbot is a hack for the Woltlab Burning Board (WBB) that posts new threads, posts, and registrations automatically into IRC. WowBB (commercial) a PHP/MySQL powered bulletin board. It is designed from the ground up to provide the most functionality with ease-of-use X.Forum a forum using text as the database Xchangeboard forum software based on PHP and MySQL. It offers an easy way of administration to handle design and/or user-specific tasks YapBB Yet Another PHP Bulletin Board (YapBB) allows you to set up a forum on your Web site, using PHP4+MySQL. The goal of this project is to create a good, full featured, and free bulletin board YapBoard a messaging board system written in PHP for Apache and MySQL YAPF Yet Another PHP Forum Zorum an easy to install, personalizable, web based forum application that can be used on any website
