Development Tools

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards. PunBB has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages.

W-Agora (Web-Agora) is a professional database-driven communications system which allows you and your visitors to store and display messages, files, and other infos on your web site. Features: Threaded or flat discussions, attachments, Users managements, private forums, Multiple sites & forums, Multi-languages support, Fully customizable using templates, Full web-based admin panel, statistics, Multi-Database support, Search engine, WYSIWYG editor, and more... Commercial support is available.

XMB is a free message board powered by PHP and MySQL. The extensive control panel allows extreme control over all aspects of the message board system including these features...unlimited posts, forums, members, administration panel, members panel, multiple themes, word censors, user ranks, custom titles, member list, whos online, BBCode, HTML, Instant Messenger, flood control, thread administration options, bump, top, delete, open, close, move and more. Avatars, sub-forums, post pruning, smilies, polls, forum/post subscriptions, favourites, custom templates, FAQ, attachments, COPPA support and more. XMB 1.9 Nexus features new security to prevent from mass registration, IP monitoring and fake registration processes.

Chipmunk Forum is a small yet flexible and fully featured forum system. It has unlimited categories and forums, staff only forums, read only forums, 4 levels of permissions. Smilies, word filters, BBcode, Ip banning,flood protection, e-mail ban from registration, and displays number of users online.

The MercuryCharged Project is a PHP, and MySQL based discussion board. It was launched off of the base of the MercuryBoard system found at MercuryBoard.com. After many months of following the project, and creating modifications for MercuryBoard - the Developer of The MercuryCharged Charged decided that it was time to `recharge` the slowly dying project. and releasing newer versions of the project with his own community based version of the script. MercuryBoard has provided one of the fastest and most complete community softwares available on the web. MercuryCharged will not only be all that, but more. You can get more features, more speed, and more glamour for your website by simply downloading and installing our project on your website. Not only is our project free, but it will continue to be free unlike other discussion boards who have made the turn to the other side of commercial, and open source software. The Project is released under the GNU GPL License.

Free PHP/MySQL forum/bulletin board system. The only interactive forum where not only administrators fix the bugs and add new features, but the users can too! Features at a glance * Language System, easily change the forums language with the use of language packs. * Administration Control Panel, control every aspect of your forum. * Moderation Options, assign moderators, edit, delete etc options for posts. * Link Forums, use a forum as a link to another site, usefull for affiliate links. * BBCode & Smilies Support, make text bold, italic, insert smilie faces etc. * Template System, control the look of your forum with html templates and css files. * Full Groups & Permissions System, assign users to whatever user group you want, create, edit and delete groups. * Polls, include as many options as you want.

freeForum is a free and simple 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: IP banning, flood protection, open and closed categories, reserved user names, possibility to edit previous posts. freeForum is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL).

EKINboard is a new, open source, message board with lots of features including ( But not limited to ): - Custom Templating Engine - Multi-Categories - Sub Forums - Public Profiles - Personal Messaging - Multi-Access Levels - Signatures - User Tracking - User Ratings - Word Filters

The Orca Forum is a small and efficient threaded forum script perfect for a site not big enough to support a phpBB or invision board. Reading like a newsreader, with embedded javascript expand/collapse of threads, this forum is designed for complete style transparency. Use it as its own page, or style it up using the stylesheet and embed it into your existing layout.

spiderDiscussion v1.3 is a simple threaded discussion board. Users may post and reply to posts. The webmaster can easily customize the layout and design. He may also set the posting order as most to least recent or least to most recent. There is no administrative interface for the webmaster or Web site owner to easily remove posts or block users.

Add a remotely hosted message board to your website. Our message boards are completely customizable and banner-free. No programming knowledge is needed. Features include the ability to use your own domain name, file uploading, content syndication, spell checker, password protection, IP and email banning, HTML and profanity filters, post and registration approval, private messaging, custom profiles, custom titles, member registration, mailing lists, and an advanced WYSIWYG editor.

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is generally faster than any other board while still maintaining a good deal of features. Now it is finally available as a Mambo component!

SEO-Board is a fast, free and search engine friendly forum software written in PHP/MySQL. It is perfect for small and medium-size sites. If you are looking for a small, customizable and fast forum without all the bloat of the big ones, SEO-Board is for you.

k4 Bulletin Board is a free (open source) forum/bulletin board system running on PHP4/PHP4 using either MySQL/MySQLi, SQLite or PostgreSQL. Having hundreds of features while still in beta, it compares to its expensive counterparts. Its standard features include: AJAX integration, advanced searching, unlimited categories and forums, unlimited topics and replies, multilingual support and a dedicated community, advanced styles and template system and a powerful administrative backend. If you want a good looking, powerful board, this is for you!

UseBB is an easy-to-set up and easy-to-use Open Source PHP/MySQL bulletin board system with several user and administration possibilities, especially designed for small to medium sized web sites which do not need the overdose of features found in other forum packages.

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 either MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

MercuryBoard is a bulletin board script written in Object-Oriented PHP. It utilizes a MySQL database. MercuryBoard aims to be the fastest, leanest, fully featured bulletin board system.

A Free & Fast php/mysql forum currently under very active developement. Currently in RC stages and first RC is out so give it a try and let us know what you think. Features - Unlimited Categories, Forums, Link Forums, Members. Member profiles, Groups and Permissions system, Polls, Templating and much more!

podBB is your all-in-one soloution to your website needs. podBB comes pre-installed with leading hacks and mods. Based on the popular phpBB you can very easily convert your forum into podBB to enjoy all the new features and pre-installed hacks! podBB is dedicated to adding style, functionality and ease-of-use. All hacks and mods are pre-installed to save time in setting up your fourm.

This is a very simple PHP message board. It requires PHP and MySQL and can be easily adapted with CSS. Supports smilies and multiple languages.

phpBB2 is an excellent forum and discussion board written in open source php. The problem is that with long session IDs and passes variables, search engines won`t cache the pages to give you credit for them. This modifies phpBB2 to allow you to see "static" URLs instead of dynamic ones. This is done through mod_rewrite. The file also contains changes to the code that make it much more search engine friendly.