PhpBB
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
phpBB is a free/open
source web-based
forum system using the
PHP
scripting language and a variety of
database systems:
Besides the database support, phpBB's greatest advantages are its full and
easy to use templating system allowing complete customisation, and the
internationalisation support, with 45 different non-english language packs
currently released, from Chinese to Asturian.
Like many popular modern forum systems, phpBB started out as a
UBB clone, in mid 2000. phpBB 1.0.0 was released by December 2000, and the
1.x codebase was improved and enlarged until the release of version 1.4.4 in
November 2001. The next release, 2.0.0, was developed from scratch and released
in April 2002, and was distributed with a new default design, which, while
considered overused by some, has influenced the designs of several competitors.
The current development branch (2.1.x, to be released as 2.2.0 when
production quality) is building upon the new codebase to add the functionality
omitted from previous versions, and optimise the code above the level that was
allowed by the strict compatibility rules placed on 2.0.x.
Other free/open
source PHP forum software
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