phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.

• Easily installed via the Plesk control panel by clicking a button - that simple!
• Designed with security as a priority
  
• Powerful and extensive authorisation system
  
• Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
  
• Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions
• Unlimited forums can be organised into as many categories as you like
  
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups
  
• Powerful search facility
• Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
  
• Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
  
• Polls can be simply added to posts
  
• Email notification of replies to your topics
  
• Powerful topic subscription capability
  
• Original emoticons to portray emotions
• Powerful forum, user and group permission management
  
• Control forum access to specified user groups
  
• Control all aspects of the posting experience
  
• Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options
• Unlimited members
  
• Personal profile creation
  
• Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
  
• Email-like private messaging system
  
• Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars
• Topic editing
  
• Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
  
• Topic splitting
  
• Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis
• General configuration
  
• Forum & category setup
  
• Easy database backup and restore
  
• Disallowed usernames
  
• User authorisation
  
• Word censoring
  
• Complete member management
  
• Emoticon setup
  
• Optional account verification
  
• Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple
• IP address or hostname
  
• IP tracking of posts and posters
  
• Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator
• Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
  
• Templates separated from the PHP code so that new layouts can easily be created or integrated with your current site design
  
• Complete control of fonts and colours with cascading style sheets (CSS)
  
• Active community creating addons and specialised modifications
  
• Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C
• All this is supported by an increasingly large, thriving and friendly community of members from all over the world ready to help with any problems, suggestions or just for general discussion!