Archive for the ‘Discussion Boards’ Category

Fubar Forum

Fubar is a small package (50kb zipped) and doesn’t need a MySQL database. It’s features include: - user registration with captcha code / user profile (incl. offsite avatars) - forum administration (settings, boards, categories) - boards can be normal, readonly and hidden - access for boards can be set to everyone, mods or just admins - topics can be locked, made sticky, moved and removed by moderators and admins - posts can be editted and removed by moderators and admins - users can post topics and replies - support for most common BBCode - search for posts - a memberlist - RSS feed All in just 50kb!

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iScripts SonicBB - Free Discussion forum

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.

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DoComments

Do you need to accept, store and display visitors’ comments on your personal blog or commercial storefront? Enabling communication with potential customers or fans of your online journal is no longer a problem with DoComments, a single PHP file that, nevertheless, offers a wide range of popular features. With just one line of PHP: 1) Make comments appear anywhere you want, 2) Let your visitors rate your content and then display that rating anywhere you want and 3) Show the number of comments on any topic anywhere you want. Allow your visitors to rate the comments themselves: is a particular comment helpful or unhelpful? Receive an email alert whenever a visitor posts a comment to your website or rates a comment as helpful or unhelpful. Impress your visitors when they see their comments post instantly—without refreshing the page. Look good with a smart user interface that touts smooth animations alongside big, bold names and distinctive text. DoComments is professional-grade software

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freeForum

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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Advanced Electron Forums (AEF)

The full name of AEF is Advanced Electron Forum. This bulletin board software is free software. It is written in PHP and MySQL. Some great feautures that users speak of : 1) WYSIWYG Editors 2) JS DOCK for easy navigation(A first from AEF) 3) Customizable Themes 4) News System with articles 5) ShoutBox 6) Calendar 7) Report Posts 8) Suggest Framework 9) Threaded Mode for topics 10) Preview Posts 11) Users who have read a topic 12) RSS Feeds 13) Smart Redirects 14) Group Legends 15) Domdrag for reordering Categories, Forums, emoticons (A new feature included for the first time ever in a forum software.) These are just some of the features. 16) Database and file backup from within the Admin CP. 17) Multiple Languages AEF has a very simple and easy to use Administration Panel and installing this software is a piece of cake! You can install new themes, customize themes the way you want.

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MyBB

MyBB is a fast, scalable and customizable discussion solution powered by PHP and a MySQL backend. Did we also mention that it is FREE? MyBB contains many of the standard features found in discussion systems including many advanced features for power users. Some of the powerful features include a fully localised application - translate MyBB in to as many languages as you like, completely customisable template and theme based interface, a plugin architecture allowing you to easily add additional functionality to your forum without modifying the code, an advanced permissions system with support for multiple user groups and inheritance, AJAX based in-line editing and auto-completion as well as much much more. New to MyBB 1.4 includes AJAX quick reply, a completely redeveloped Control Panel, a moderator control panel, a powerful new calendar & event system, PostgreSQL & SQLite support and much much more!

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Silentum Boards

Silentum Boards are unlike most other PHP message boards out there, for the simple fact that they use no MySQL at all. The boards use flat text files to store board and user information. This makes Silentum Boards ideal for anyone whose host has limited or no MySQL abilities. They include anything you’d ever want in a message board, including member profiles, a search feature, a Karma system, a fully working moderation system, graphical smilies and post icons, various stylesheets to choose from, and much, much more. They require no installation, so all you need to do is upload and go.

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Simple Machines Forum (SMF)

Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources. Some of our features include: COMPREHENSIVE THEMES: Not only can you control the default theme for your community, but you can also allow your users to select from a range of themes themselves BLAZING-FAST DATABASE: Not only do we make use of a MySQL back-end, but we’ve also gone to great lengths to ensure the database design is fast and efficient SECURE FILE ATTACHMENTS: Our special file-attaching system allows your users to attach files without fear of corrupting your system. AUTOMATIC MOD INSTALLATION: Unique to SMF is our package manager - a system by which you can download and install upgrades and modifications with just a few mouse-clicks SSI HOOKS & API: SMF was specifically designed to be easily integrated with other software projects - use our SSI hooks and API to easily plug SMF into the rest of your site

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