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Looking for a new forum script for your website? Consider Lokboard, the new forum software from DesignSkate. Lokboard has the features to run a small, medium or large size community.

Simple Machines Forum - SMF in short - is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other. SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!

PHPDevel Forum is a simple forum software written in PHP. The script has multi-language interface. Features include: posting, replying, and private messages. The script allows to browse unread topics, user's topics, or user's topics with unread replies without leaving current page. Admin features include: moderation panel, translation panel, and mailer.

Twisty Forum is a forum written in xhtml strict and php -

The Fast Track Sites Simply AJAX Forum System(SAFS for short) is a simple to use, extremely powerful, and secure forum system. This system is full of eye catching AJAX features and is based on our popular SSFORUM application. This new version includes a completely rewritten backend, a new admin panel, better theme capabilities, more options, and is even more secure than its predecessor. It would be impossible to list all of its features, but below are a few: * AJAX used for posting, deleting, locking and unlocking topics * Word Filter - Can be used to block unwanted words from showing up in posts or instant messages * Topic Icons - Comes with several free icons and more can be easily added * Announcements - You can now create forum-wide announcements that will show up at the top of each page. * Progress Spinners - We have added progress spinners to most of the AJAX sections so that you will know that your request is being done * And Much Much More!!

bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. We're focused on keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add on features through our extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean and ready to take on any job you throw at it.

sdb is a PHP/PostgreSQL-based simple discussion board program. Main features include: 11 possible levels of page access, Configurable fonts/colors/title images, Automated user account set up where user is required to have a valid email address, and more.

phpMyDesktop|arcade is a mix between a message board, the game of life and card/board games. It realises a new way of communication on the web on a two dimensional board where each post functions as kind of a point generating lifeform. Some features: Gallery, Milestones, Treasures, Ranking, Private Messages, Search, Email-Notifications, Flash Desktops, own Firefox Extension, Device & XML interfaces, RSS feed, message filtering, fully skinnable, core-addon-interface ... the tool runs on PHP/mySQL.

With AdaptBB, you can get a basic forum going in no time. Although previously a whole script and now a plugin, AdaptBB will be one of the most active and updated plugins of AdaptCMS.

The purpose of AnoBBS was to provide a simple BBS for online encrypted debate. A list of the basic functionality: user authentication | topic list and topic view | three userlevels; admin, moderator and user | post threads | post and edit replies | print or save threads | edit, delete and lock threads (mod) | edit forumdata and users (admin) | save BBS (admin) | delete BBS (admin). The debate is encrypted pre-submit and decrypted after load, using a key that is never transmitted over the net. It uses Ajax and PHP, forums stored as XML. The AnoBBS comes with 10 different skins.

Comdev Forum Benefits: Our forum is suitable for personal and business/corporate user. For home user, they can post their questions in the forum in order for others to answer to their questions, share their views, voice out their opinion on certain issues. This will help build a strong community among themselves from people around the world. Whereas for corporate user, staff within an organisation can communicate with each other internally. This is very effective for big organisation, especially staff from different department or from employer to subordinate. They can send announcement or normal message in the forum online without having to move around the organisation. Forum can bridge people from different level, status or standard to share their knowledge, experience, idea, opinion and believe.

Monkey Boards is a small, fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be a faster, smaller and more easy to use alternative to the many other discussion boards available. Monkey Boards outputs semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages with external CSS stylesheets. It is quick and simple to install, use and administer. Currently, Monkey Boards runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP scripting language. To store its data, Monkey Boards relies on SQLite.

WhiteBoard is a fast, powerful, and free open source discussion board solution. The project started in March of 2007, and its recent release is the culmination of three years of hard work. Developed by a Zend Certified PHP Engineer, this discussion board uses advanced algorithms and features which previously were only available in paid discussion board solutions.

MySmartBB is a bulletin board system that aims to be powerful, secure, and use as few server resources as possible.

M-phorum is a small & fast forum, written in PHP with MySQL backend. Already a few features in it, still more to come. Already put admin centre in it, and smilies.

This simple forum script don't use mySQL for DB, is using flat file .txt. No authentification module available.

Has several great features. Like - Easy and quick install script - Changing of forums display order - Admin of forums with deleting of posts - Admin of members with ban or deletion

BiTBOARD 2.5 is the latest release of the BiTSHiFTERS Bitbaord forum software. It is an internet bulletin-board software basing on a flatfile data storage system which means that no SQL support is needed. BiTBOARD has been created to safe yourself from overbloated BB systems. It's fast, easy and small. Version 2.5 includes a greatly improved admin system, user management, user registration, banning and more. Give it a chance!

This board is very simple which programed by PHP code. It doesnt need any databse only fill config.php file and the all will be run good.

This script can be used to easily create a Questions and Answers site pretty much like Yahoo Answers. The real advantage of a Questions and Answers site is users themselves create all the content by asking questions and answering them and you can make a lot out of site adds.