Open Source PHP Message Board Software

phpBB is the world's leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in today's top of the line software.

PLEASE NOTE: Latest XOOPS files are on http://github.com/xoops and http://github.com/xoopsmodules25x) XOOPS is a Web application platform written in PHP for the MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for developing small or large community websites, intra-company and corporate portals, weblogs, and much more. XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Initially a portal system, XOOPS is now a leading content management system (CMS) that serves as a versatile Web framework. XOOPS can also be used as a weblog or journal via a standard install using the News module alone. Another approach is to use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links, etc. to form a community that interacts with members and visitors. Or think big, like an enterprise, and develop modules to use with eShop that integrate into XOOP's uniform user management system. XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

PHPFusion is an award-winning open source content management system (CMS). PHPFusion is written in PHP and MySQL and includes a simple, comprehensive administration system. Demos : https://demos.php-fusion.co.uk/

Flarum is a delightfully simple forum software for your website. It’s simple, fast and friendly, with all the features you need to build a great and successful community. Flarum is built with PHP with no complex dependencies. It’s beautifully and carefully designed to be responsive and consistent across all platforms. More than just a nice skin, it’s packed full of innovative features including a two-pane interface, floating composer, swipe gestures, themes, smart notifications and so much more. It can also be customized and extended to suit your community even better thanks to its amazingly flexible architecture and powerful Extension API.

e107 is a website content management (CMS) system written in PHP and MySQL. It installs a completely dynamic website on your server allowing you complete control of your site from a secure and intuitive, yet powerful and flexible admin area. Coded HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap 5, jQuery. Full source and changelog available on Github.

PHP/MySQL Discussion Forum with frames-based layout, reply-to-user, e-mail notification, HTML-posting, signatures, friends & killfiles, user promotion/demotion and full admin tools.

I started this project because I wanted a dead-simple blog. One that didn't need a database, used flat text files, and looked nice. It's main advantage is that it only requires PHP 5 and write permissions. There is no setup, just unzip and copy.

MGB is a free OpenSource Guestbook completely written in PHP, using JavaScript and a MySQL Database. Easy to use, flexible and customizable with templates to make it fit 100% to your homepage.

Kusaba X is a continuation of the Kusaba imageboard software, which Trevor has quit supporting. While other Kusaba derivatives are adding more bloat than functionality, Kusaba X is determined on adding functionality first. http://kusabax.cultnet.net

This is the place the Attachment Mod is at home. The Attachment Mod is an addition to phpBB Forums (not ported phpBB Packages), allowing to attach files to posts with a vast of options for displaying/adding files. The feature list will reveal most of it.

inicrond is a education-oriented content management system. It is written in php and supports MySQL. Go on the freshmeat site for more details. Inicrond : Network of Interactive Courses Registred On a Net Domain

FUDforum is a super fast and scalable discussion forum. It is highly customizable and supports unlimited members, forums, posts, topics, polls & attachments. It can import XML Feeds and sync with USENET groups and Mailing Lists (bi-directional).

secured WebGine is a mix between a content management system and an application framework. Its focus is security and a logical API.

Commentics is an advanced PHP comment script with many features. Its main aims are to be integrable, customizable and secure. It is designed to be integrated into your existing pages.

MacphpBBMOD: House all the phpBB modifications developed and written by Mac (phpBB username: ycl6)

SimpleCodes 2x is the second version at the SimpleCodes Content Management System. It is a module based system where standalone modules can be installed quickly and painlessly. Template management makes for a very custom website.

AO is a Content Management System initially designed for Alumni Associations.Theme and container support, easy administration, modular design, real time bug reporting to web service are the some of its highlights.ADOdb and Smarty are used as its backend

E-Hacks is project dedicated to the PHP CMS (E) Xoops. It's purpose is to write modules for (E) Xoops and also hack existing modules for improvment.

Customizable torrent tracker for vBulletin 3.7.x. & 3.8.x. VBTT 3 uses PHP integrated tracker(smaller sites) or XBT backend style(large sites with SSH access)

A Web-based Usenet News Reader written by PHP, support NNTP/NNRP access to News Server. Authentication can be easily configured with flexibility. It also supports the charset conversion between different Chinese charsets, both Traditional and Simplified.

Program PBBoard is interactive Forum management program Dialogic Free classified as free software and open source, is located under the GNU GPL, is written in PHP and based on MySQL database engine And PBBoard now in its third generation version 3.0, this version includes integration between design standard High-level as well as high security, as well as multi-language interface and empowerment Full of multiple databases for planning modulating complete with a lack of effort on servers. https://pbboard.info

Warning: uBB is maintained by French people, so it's not a 5 stars quality english. uBB is the reborn of UseBB project. It's powerful, fast, lightweight and FREE in this world who all is paid. Free to use, free to edit, free. I GOT THE POWER ! Just download and go to /install and follow the instructions. Source code available on GitHub: https://github.com/Kippinn/uBB

A modular PHP based web portal system. While a stable beta of the portal is available, I am currently in development planning phases of a new core framework.

IntegraMOD is a pre-modded version of phpbb2 with the best MODs for phpbb made to work with each other (compatibility of modifications). IntegraMOD stand for Integrated MODs. Its main addon is IM Portal which features forum-wide integration of portal b

Sprocket is an ATTEMPT at efficient databasing on NON-PERSISTENT applications (as opposed to MySQL) as used in the WEB (PHP). Sprockets is manifested in a dual purpose forum-CMS, with heirarchical qualities like inheritence and infinite nesting of data.