Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community. 
 Its features include : 
 <UL>
	<LI>Full text search
	<LI>Private Message System
	<LI>UTF-8 Support
	<LI>Security
	<LI>Anti Spam 
	<LI>Multiple database support
	<LI>Polls
	<LI>File Attachments
	<LI>Caching
	<LI>Users and Groups management
	<LI>Email notification
	<LI>Easy moderation using control panel
	<LI>Support for styles and themes
	<LI>Localization
	<LI>Plug-in support
 </UL>

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

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Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful template engine provides a unique look and feel to the site. 

 It has WAP and WAP2 support for wireless devices. It has ability to create child boards under other boards. (sub boards) and assign moderators to boards. Track users and their IP. Generate printer-friendly topics. Its major feature include Users management, Full text search support, File based caching, SEO friendly, Anti spam system, Forum stats, Private messaging, Polls, RSS feeds, smiley, Spell checker, WYSIWYG, Image gallery, Calendar support to add events, Powerful moderation tools and lot more. 
 
 Its a feature rich product. It is open source product with their <A HREF="http://www.simplemachines.org/about/license.php" target="_blank">own licensing terms and conditions</A>. The product should not be distributed without the owner knowledge. 
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Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful template engine provides a unique look and feel to the site. 

Simple Machines Forum - Elegant, Effective and Powerful

Phorum is a message board software that is designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features. 

 It has hook support which allow webmaster to create modules for using external authentication, altering message data before its stored, adding custom information about users or messages etc. Phorum gives the web designers the power to rearrange the data in any shape, form or fashion they could want. The templates are in pure HTML with simple to understand text commands embedded in them. 

 It has all kind of features that a forum / discussion board should have. Its features include users and roles management, RSS feed, full text search, private messaging, bread crumb navigation, BBCode, Smiley, Event logging, spam prevention, Developer API support, WYSIWYG editor. 
 
 Phorum has more numbers of add-ons like Google-maps integration, Spell checker, Forum stats, Image gallery, User tagging, Highlight search terms, Facebook integration and lot more. External Application could use its User database to provide authentication and user management. 

 It is widely used and it is used in <A HREF="http://forums.mysql.com/" target="_blank">MySQL community forum</A>. Check out their <A HREF="http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/index.php" target="_blank">community page</A> and <A HREF="http://www.phorum.org/demo/" target="_blank">demo</A>, both are powered by Phorum. 
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Phorum is a message board software that is designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features. MySQL community forum is powered by Phorum.

Phorum - PHP based forum software

Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It has elegant UI so that user can spend less time clicking and more time talking. Two-Pane Interface - Bring your mouse to the left side of the screen and the discussion list will conveniently appear, Infinite Scrolling, Floating Composer,  The interface has been optimized for touch, with big buttons, smooth animations, and gestures aplenty. 

Flarum - Forums made simple

MyBB is a forum package full of useful and to-the-point features, helping you to make administrating your bulletin board as easy as possible. It is a professional and efficient discussion board. Its features include:
 <UL>
	<LI>Security - performed security audits and rewritten code to make sure that no vulnerabilities</LI>
	<LI>Speed - optimized to be speedy on any occasion</LI>
	<LI>AJAX support</LI>
	<LI>Inline Moderation</LI>
	<LI>Access control</LI>
	<LI>Have an unlimited number of members, forums, posts, threads</LI>
	<LI>MySQL Fulltext search capabilities</LI>
	<LI>Completely customizable with our intuitive templates and theme system</LI>
	<LI>Powerful user control panel</LI>
	<LI>Custom profiles and settings per user</LI>
	<LI>Signatures, avatars, buddy and ignore lists and forum subscriptions</LI>
	<LI>Reputation system allowing members to rate each other</LI>
	<li>Attach multiple files to a single post</li>
	<li>Automatic thumbnail generation for attached images</li>
	<li>Clickable smilies and BB Code</li>
	<li>Quick moderation options for moderators</li>
	<li>Email notification of new posts</li>
	<li>Create polls with multiple options and attach them to threads</li>
	<li>Forum statistics page</li>
 </UL>

MyBB is a forum package full of useful and to-the-point features, helping you to make administrating your bulletin board as easy as possible. It is a professional and efficient discussion board.

MyBB - professional,efficient discussion board

Vanilla is a powerful community publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features. It has add-ons to embed your vanilla forums in to any of the site with single line of code. User will be allowed to login with their Facebook, Twitter, Google and OpenID account. 
	
Vanilla has all functionality of a Forum software. It supports Managing users and roles, Spam detection, Talk to your community by writing messages. Messages can appear anywhere in the application, and can be used to inform your users of news and events. 

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Vanilla is a powerful community publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features. It has add-ons to embed your vanilla forums in to any of the site with single line of code. User will be allowed to login with their Facebook, Twitter, Google and OpenID account.

Vanilla forums - customizable discussion forum with mobile support

FUDforum (Fast Uncompromising Discussion Forum) has the ability to generate forum web pages extremely fast. It can also act as a Mailing List Manager, USENET newsreader and even an XML Feed Aggregator. This will allow you to build an instant community and consolidate all your messages into a single system. Its features include Templating System, i18n Support, Polls, Full text search, Custom tags, IP tracking and lot more.

FUDforum - Fast Uncompromising Discussion forum

esoTalk is free, open-source Internet forum software written in PHP and MySQL. It is intent on being extremely simple, fast, and modern, containing all of the essential features a forum might need, and a powerful plugin system allowing developers to extend it in any way they like.

esoTalk - Forum Software Reinvented

Postmill is a free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and threaded comments. It is built on the Symfony framework. Any similarities between this software and that of a large community symbolised by an alien logo are purely coincidental.

Postmill - Social link aggregator with voting and nested comments

The Chatter package allows you to easily create a Laravel forum from any existing or new Laravel application.

Chatter - Simple Laravel Forum Package

FluxBB is a fork of PunBB, is designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an ideal choice of forum for your website. It has Clean admin interface, Flexible permission system, Powerful moderator tools and lot more.


FluxBB - Fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website

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