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Gravity Board X is forum software written in PHP and MySQL. GBX features a unique front page layout, and version 2.0 will push the envelope with features such as a CSS-based layout, WYSIWYG message editor and AJAX framework.

Elite Bulletin Board is an advanced bulletin board program that provides advanced features such as CAPTCHA, sub-board, skinning ability, multilingual, commercial-grade password encryption, and much more.

FlatForum is a fast, clean, and simple threaded forum that uses a flatfile database. It's designed for people who have small to medium-sized websites and don't want a huge, bloated forum like phpBB. Features: * Small and fast. The required files for FlatForum are less than 150k combined. * Uses an optimized flatfile database. Unlike most flatfile forums, FlatForum won't bog down when your forum starts to get a lot of posts, because it doesn't load the entire database for each page view. * Easy to customize. You don't have to muck through the forum script to change the appearance. * Autolinking that WORKS (all URLs and email addresses). * Identical appearance in IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape. * Optional word filters (censors). * Advanced spambot protection without requiring user registration or captchas. * Free :)

A pre-modded version of phpBB with an integrated flexible and powerful portal called IM Portal.

PhpbbXtra Is an Open Source flat style modified phpbb discussion board that has plenty of useful and fun mods pre-installed, arabic and english released , got the best and most wanted mods and hacks that meets any other forum software

Pearl Forums is a PHP/mySQL discussion forum/bulletin board system full of features and comes with a WYSIWYG editor and spamguard. Optimized coding is intended for easy modifations and integration, making it the most programmer-friendly there is. With Pearl For Biz you can integrate with your existing business database flawlessly. Also available for download is Pearl For Mambo. Latest release is version 2.0 as of March 1, 2005.

PHP/MySQL-based board that runs very stable extremly fast even on large sites like www.thewall.de/forum/. Features: MySQL Support, usergroups, private messaging, news backend with comment function, avatars, statistics, multilingual installer, highly customizable with themes and hacks.

Phpbb Tweaked has taken PhpBB and have tweaked it some like adding mods and adding more security features. so bascily what it dose is has taken all mods and installed them please note when we say all mods we don't mean every mod that is out there we have just selcted the best ones that will benifit you. and only the ones that you will use.

This forum has been developed for PHP-beginners. It has a very simple template system and the code is easy to understand. The forum is prepared for PHP5.

rForum is a flexible set of scripts that can be used for different sites. The forum is build for multilanguage and containts; Dutch and English language files. This is the third Alpha Release so installation may be difficult in beginning. On my site you will find English and Dutch support forums.

Based on PHP 5.x.x >= 5.5.0 and MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported), PBBoard is a powerful, scalable and fully customisable forums package for your web site . Key features: Comprehensive templates system, Easy to upgrade from other bulletin board systems, Powerful search engine, Powerful administrative functionality, User email notification of answered posts, Support for smilies, PBB Code or HTML in messages, User profiles, Ultimated number of moderators per forum, User groups, Private forums, Word censor facility, Ban users based on IP address or email address, User-specific local time zone support, New posts identification, Moderation queues on posting and registration

Here is simple straight forward message board for webmasters who need a elegant but simple forum. It features smileys, instant new post notification, easy deletion of inappropriate posts, style customization and more. You can create skins or choose from prebuilt skins. It got a bad words filter which will replace all bad words. A powerful admin panel which can manage all the aspects the discussion board. Create your virtual community in few minutes. This freeware is designed to provide best user friendly experience to end users.

I have been working on this forum for a while, thought of adding couple premium features and sell it but due to lack of time I may or may not be able to finish it - so here, I am going to release what has been done, for free. Forum has been made with general security in mind, all queries in uses PDO and the best is that I have written all the code in Object Oriented style which will give you ability to extend of easily make modifications with ease.

FunkBoard is a simple PHP-based message board which uses MySQL on backend. It features member system, categories for forums, new-improved admin system and is straightforward to set up and use.

FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website. FluxBB was designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an ideal choice of forum for your website.

ICT was created as a brand new design to be easy to use and yet highly secure. Advanced security features and member permission settings can be set via the AdminCP to allow members to access only what they require and make site staff management simple too. It has full post moderation features, trash bin for deleted posts and topics, Personal messenger, a comprehensive Admin panel and built in activity statistics among its current features (more are being added regularly). This is all combined with simple and fast setup and installation to get a high degree of versatility that should suit the needs of its users. ICT is designed around an OOP framework for easy site building. It has "plug-and-play" ability for rapid addition of extra modules and has full and partial database backup and restore features so you only backup what you require. It is based on the ADOdb database abstraction layer and so can work on numerous types of database including MySQL, MSSQL, pgSQL and Oracle.

Ics added a few php code to the v1.0 by Asn - also herein referred and listed @ HotScripts.com as well. Ics has completed an automatic Visitor Tour in the Internet by adding a few lines to the basic Forum version. The webmaster has only to watch his subscribers that are obliged to proper automatic registration if they want to enter the community [...otherwise they can only read the Forum]. The Visitors from their side are very much at easy , as they do not have to hang on webmaster rectifications , if they do edit sometthing erroneously.

FunkBoard is a free, full-featured, multi-thread, highly customisable, open-source bulletin board messaging system. Unlimited topics and messages, Private topics, private mail, avatars (both ready made and user uploadable), email when your message gets a reply, bad language filter and lots more features. It uses the powerful PHP language and MySQL database.

Script-solution is a very fast board which many features. The design is full configureable with templates and additional you can customize the most important options in the adminarea. The adminarea is very clearly arranged and easy to use. Therefore the board is advisable for newbies and for experienced users, too. The most important features are: PM�s, bbcode with syntaxhighlighting in code-tags, appointments, linklist, additional profilefields, 4 different designs, ...

The Comments Engine is a fully fledged, site wide commenting system for you to use with your next web2.0 project. From flood control and linkifying urls on the fly to XSS checks and advanced searching tools - it has all the things you could want from a commenting system (including a proper comments search facility!). The commentsEngine comes integrated into our userBase user management system. However it is possible to run it off your own user database. See documents section on our site for details. Includes moderation and moderation queues, flood control, linkifying urls on the fly, xss protection, fully ajax'd, full search options and comment re-ordering based on ratings, replies, username etc, See site for more details.