http://www.advancescripts.com/rss/545.htmlDiscussion Boards RSS feedsen-usCopyright (c) AdvanceScripts All rights reserved. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/16332.html 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 http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/16266.html PXBulletin combines the features and power of many different forum softwares into one great package. With an easy to use template engine http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/15944.html 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 http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/15731.html YMbb is a free file-based (which means it uses no MySQL database) everything is safely saved to a text file. YMbb is designed to take up as little space as possible. 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The professional version includes a 1yr warranty with full access to technical support by phone, web, or email, topic icons, profanity filter, and much more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/12672.html uPHP Forum is a free PHP/MySQL driven forum software package which is fully featured and highly customizable. It is compatable with all webserver / operating system setups providing PHP 4.x or higher is installed. It also benefits from a unique one click upgrader and mod installer to cut down the time you have to spend installing mods on your system and ensures that you keep it up to date. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/12383.html You may be missing out on important search engine traffic! phpbb SEO master will bring you more search engine hits than you ever had before. Check out our site demo! http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/12351.html A tool that caters to the involvement and participation of all kind of people. 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Features: installation script for easy setup, clan member login, newsforum with comment option, war planner, fully featured forum for tactics, polls for members, private message box for sending messages to other clan members, customizable layout with StyleSheets and your own clanlogo, admin section for managing clan data, messageboards, members, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/7752.html Meunity is a Web-based community system that uses PHP. It is object oriented, so it is easily extendible. Its database abstraction layer allows it to be compatible with multiple databases. It is easily configurable, and includes content management systems and advanced administration. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/7750.html Start a community of online artists with OekakiPoteto. OP is a fully featured system that uses the noteBBS 2.04x and OekakiBBS 2.64 paint applet that allows you to draw pictures to the web and have others view and comment them. 5.0.0 includes language pack support for multiple translations, JPG compression, along with many serious security bug fixes. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/7749.html Dustbowl Clan Tools (DCT) is a community-system for online-gaming-clans. DCT provides a bulletinboard system, an advanced scheduler, polls and member management. All of the features are especially trimmed for the needs of online gamers. Includes an easy to use installation wizard. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/7743.html Php Net is an easy to use Virtual eCommunity for your site. It uses object-oriented programming and the MySQL database. It's purpose is to act as a fast (and free) alternative to other virtual communities forum packages which are noticably slow or have everything but the kitchen sink. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4790.html A discussion board system featuring: online users display; ban function; poll; private messages; photo album (with user upload); reaction system for the photos; user profiles; user redirect system (www.url.com/username); ubb; move/close/sticky topic; and more. preview at: http://members.lycos.nl/yabba/index.php http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4615.html VenomBoard is a Full-featured web-discussion forum written entirely in php and html. Current version features: No graphics to load, making the load times for messages fast, Full administrative functionality (including specifying the amount of HTML allowed in posts, host blocking), and ability to show hostname/IP of posters. This particular forum uses MySQL as it's database backend, although the software could easily be adapted to work with other databases. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4614.html The alienhelpdesk BB is a small BB that doesn't have half the functions the big BB's out there have. It's kept simple/manageable and does the job. Members can edit/delete their own messages. You can edit/delete all & manage the BB from the administrator's section. No mysql support needed. No css forms used. It's only PHP and html. New in evolution 2: adds more functionality, security, and tracking features. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4613.html The vBB is a forum system for PHP4 & MySQL. It includes an administrative interface, multiple languages (currenty Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish), use of avatars, user groups for read and write access to different forums, personal mail boxes, subscriptions, voting, polls, smilies,WYSIWYG editor for vBB-Code, modules for extensions, file-uploads, subforums, forum-icons, and more. Variable table names allow to install more than one board in one database. It includes a setup script, so you just need to know how to set file permissions for installation. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4612.html If there are defined only one category then forum shows automatically postings from this category, else if there are more categories then shows categories list, then postings list etc. There are users-system: user, moderator and admin, good admin-interface (even backup-system [tar/gzip]), multilingual etc.. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4611.html Netzbrett is a Web board / forum system written in PHP3/4 that can use flat text files, mysql or the PHP 4 db object (Interbase, MSQL, MSSQL, mySQL, Oracle 8, ODBC, PostgresSQL, Storage, Sybase) for data handling. The forum includes a simple Admin mode, which enables modifying and deletion of entries by the admin. It also includes a print view. The program is avaliable in English, German, Italian, Chinese (Taiwan) and many other languages. You can show the dates as C.A., B.E or Thai. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4610.html 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. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4609.html Easy to install and run. Design of the board page is fully editable, you may also translate it to your language. Features: Easy installation; Design is fully adjustable; Password protected admin area; You can delete any message; You can select US or European time format; Ability to ban some words; Configuration by a web form. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4608.html eForum is an easy-to-install discussion board that doesn't require any database. Features include admin area to delete topics with session authentication, a search system (more stable this version), configurable layout using css file. Moderator can be notified of new posts on the forum. It has threaded view. Multiple languages supported: Portuguese, English, German and Danish. UPDATE 0.2.5: Now, Ubbcode-style added . http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4607.html Zorum is an easy to install Web-based forum, message board, or bulletin board. It requires a MySQL database,and the PHP4 script module. Features include: web based easy install, embedded administration, personalization, moderators, password reminder, post blocking rules, bb code, mark unread messages, subscriptions, attachments, ratings, polls, smilies, word censoring, search, statistics and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4606.html EFZ BBS : Easy and Simple Forum management system was built to provide a forum which was small and efficient and was easy to integrate it uses the standard forum style as of PHP BB but gets the work done under 100 K of code very easy to integrate and administer . Everything categories comments editing and layout can be controlled from a centralized control panel . Uses no data base right now works off CSV files . http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4605.html A simple web-forum script written in PHP. Requires PHP > 4.1 and a MySQL database. Features: * Classical thread view (message tree) as well as messagebord view to display the messages * Categories can be set up * Users can be registered * E-mail notification, when answered on one's posting * search function * Support for BB-code and smilies * Images uploadable * Spam-safe entering of e-mail addresses * Layout easily customizable by CSS-, header- and footer-file. * RSS-feed * Already available languages: English, German, Dutch http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4604.html DCForum+ is the PhP/MySQL implementation of our popular web discussion program, DCForum. Features include: MySQL support, supports both fully threaded and linear discussion style, inifinite sub-forum structure, integrated user authentication system, powerful browser-based administration program. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4603.html A pre-modded version of phpBB with an integrated flexible and powerful portal called IM Portal. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4602.html Pearl For Biz is a fast, lightweight and feature rich Discussion Boards system based on the latest version of Pearl. Designed for easy integrating with existing business' database, Pearl For Biz is sleek in design and comes with a wysiwyg editor. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4601.html PHP-Post is a new forum which contains the same features as most other discussion board software, but is slimmed down (the download is well under 200KB). It uses PHP and a MySQL database. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4600.html Script-solution is a very fast board which many features. The design is full configureable with templates and additional you can customize the most important options in the adminarea. The adminarea is very clearly arranged and easy to use. Therefore the board is advisable for newbies and for experienced users, too. The most important features are: PMīs, bbcode with syntaxhighlighting in code-tags, appointments, linklist, additional profilefields, 4 different designs, ... http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4599.html Ready Dating Site Solution.Users can send messages, includes a search engine for member search, allows to upload picture in profile,no database required. No admin panel is included in this version. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4598.html Ready Dating Site Solution.Users can send messages, includes a search engine for member search, allows to upload picture in profile,no database required. No admin panel is included in this version. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4597.html The main goal behind bb2html function was speed and simplicity, thus the syntax was made more restrictive to accomodate those requirements. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4594.html A free discussion board system with such features as the ability to manage template (multi template), smileys, members, moderators. It uses a database MySQL and runs with PHP 4.2.0 (minimum). http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4593.html 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. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4592.html Now updated to version 4.60! PBLang is a multilingual, SQL-independent, versatile forum software based on PHP. It offers most features which you find in commercial forum software. Email-notification of replies, configurable membership-levels, avatars, private messages, closed mode (only logged-in users can view the board), limitable attachments, configurable UI to match your website, access-restricted forums and many more. It's fast and secure, and can handle large numbers of members and messages. With version 4.60, speed and reliability have been greatly improved. Many new features were added. 20 languages are supported. The package 4.60 is available from sourceforge.net http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4591.html WebTricksCentral BB is a message board packed full of features, permissions, and customizations that allow for an extensive dynamic community. The best part about it, is that it is 100% completely free! http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4590.html This is the result of my attempts to create forum software in PHP. I would have finished it but I feel my site is not ready for a forum yet ^_^. ShowThread() is the only function of interest, all the others are just helper functions. To create a new Thread, use ReplyToMessage(null, 0). In ShowMessage() I artificially created a limit to how much recursion there can be in a single thread. To run, this script requires the param() function. I encourage everyone to experiment with the helper functions to achieve different looks. Finally, the guests table has to filled in by hand... I haven't implemented a sign-up script yet. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4589.html Wizz Forum is an easily configurable discussion forum built on PHP and MySQL. It is unashamedly modelled (although far from being anywhere as good) on the forums at java.sun.com. Installation - Before running Wizz Forum you need to change the database values in ForumGolbals.php to reflect your own MySQL settings. After modifying ForumGlobals.php, run the file called ForumCreateDB.php. ForumCreateDB.php will attempt create the necessary tables and fields in your instance of MySQL. And away you go. You can also modify other values in ForumGlobals.php to change colours, border widths, font size, etc. The latest version includes a few simple management tools. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4588.html Wizz Forum is an easily configurable discussion forum built on PHP and MySQL. It is unashamedly modelled (although far from being anywhere as good) on the forums at java.sun.com. Installation - Before running Wizz Forum you need to change the database values in ForumGolbals.php to reflect your own MySQL settings. After modifying ForumGlobals.php, run the file called ForumCreateDB.php. ForumCreateDB.php will attempt create the necessary tables and fields in your instance of MySQL. And away you go. You can also modify other values in ForumGlobals.php to change colours, border widths, font size, etc. The latest version includes a few simple management tools. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4587.html This hack will not only remove session IDs for all search engines but it also includes many other changes that will help increase your search engine rankings by reducing PageRank drain and greatly improving keyword relevancy. It contains code to use mod_rewrite to achieve static pages and static URLs for phpBB. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4586.html Twist'n'Chat presents a discussion area based on advanced javascript system. Works with PHP and a table MySQL. Many options, for users and admin; easy to install and to manage. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4585.html Based on PHP and MySQL, vBulletin is a powerful, scalable and fully customisable forums package for your web site. Key features: Comprehensive templates system, Easy to upgrade from other bulletin board systems, Powerful search engine, Powerful administrative functionality, User email notification of answered posts, Support for smilies, vB Code or HTML in messages, User profiles, Ultimated number of moderators per forum, User groups, Private forums, Word censor facility, Ban users based on IP address or email address, User-specific local time zone support, New posts identification, Moderation queues on posting and registration, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4584.html Oxygen is a highly customisable open-source bulletin board project. It has simple and straightforward administration panel and is easily modifiable (templates) and themeable. It features unlimited users, forums, threads, polls and supports multi-languages. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4583.html Deluxe Portal is a powerful portal system and forum integrated in one package. With Deluxe Portal, you have full control over every aspect of your site, from who is allowed to view certain news articles, to how you want your pages formatted. Feature highlights include multiple groups for users (with over 70 group permissions), administrator and moderator logging, full template system with nested, complex, if/elseif/else statements, WYSIWYG posting, and much more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4582.html 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. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4581.html Gravity Board X (GBX) is a message board system for free use on personal sites. GBX has many features to satisfy any type of user, competing with the top name discussion boards, both free and not. 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Easy too install. Based on TXT files (NON SQL) and have search engine, categories and category filtres. Full administration for topics, answers, categories, censure words, ban list and backup system. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4578.html Bestweb is an easy to customize, usenet style threaded discussion forum script with multiple language, multiple forum support. The new 2004 version is almost a rewrite, utilizing users selected language, lay-out plus instant messaging service. It also has auto archiving, optional email notification, optional picture/URL submission features. The new admin section includes message moving, and poster IP lookup features. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4577.html 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 much more. It lets admin edit post, reply, view options for all users and has a http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4576.html We finally have a first release of standard version of xtreme boards! It's ready to download in the download section on the main part of the site. Our software is fully capable of features that other boards have, plus more! It has: a full style system, smilies, bbcoding, mysql backup, IP Banning, full administration over members and posts... and all the rest required to have a forum. features other boards DON'T have that we do are: Auto-scan (weekly), Automatic repair of the database, a journal. This system has been tested on other servers, and so far has been shown to run faster then any forum software and use less resources. Average loading times with XB are less then .02 seconds. And what is the cost of this software??? This version is standard edition. 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It is very easy to customise with an area for changing board colours and also simple html templates available to edit. You can also add your own emoticons and use a censor. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4573.html It is fully functioniong and offers the following advanced features; - Easy setup wizard routine. - Set up user groups and give them specific permissions to forums. -Full control over banning users and IP addresses. -Full moderation control over forums allowing post editing, locking, etc. -Private message facility with inbox and sent items. -E-mail users from within the software. -Full search facility. -Message purge. -Word Censoring and automatic replacement. -cookie support to allow users to stay logged in between sesssions. -Fully secure. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4572.html phpBoard is a web based message board system similar to UBB. It is designed to integrate Apache, PHP, and mySQL together to help you help people communicate together. It currently features: forum moderation, backend admin, category support, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4571.html The MultiForum Manager allows you to manage multiple message baords from a centralized web-based administration system. Forums are flat file, so no databases needed. Other features include: Fully customisable layout, Optional language filters, Subscriber lists, Simple and Advanced modes, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4570.html X-Forum is a full-featured GPL web-based bulletin board system using PHP/MySQL. Main features include: Easy customization, Host/IPs banning, SendMail functions, Stats feature, Track all log information, Unlimited categories and boards, Board moderators, Integrated search engine, Sort and Order Messages, Protected boards, Private boards, Word filter, Emotion icons, Host/IP logging/display (optional), Email duplicate check (optional), Email notification after posts (optional), Preview message before posting, Registration system (optional), Admin reviews members account before registration (optional), Unlimited member groups, Usage agreement during sign up (optional), Verify email address (optional), Moderators can close, remove and reopen thread, and remove messages, Administrator can email registered members, Full-featured administration/customization through the browser, Categories management tools, Boards management tools, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4569.html freeScene PHPForum is a Web forum system built with PHP that uses a MySQL database on backend. Current features include: Multiple forums, page navigation, E-Mail followups, E-Mail verification, templates, clickable http:// urls and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4568.html This is a Web-based message board system written in PHP. Features include: Uses MySQL database on backend, message moderation, template-based customization, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4567.html FunkBoard is a simple PHP-based message board which uses MySQL on backend. It features member system, categories for forums, new-improved admin system and is straightforward to set up and use. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4566.html LedForums is a feature filled Bulletin Board System with unlimited forums, members, posts and much more. Web-based administration allows you to modify the whole forum style. Easily add icons and moderate messages. This is similar in physical page design to systems such as UBB and vBulletin. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4565.html YapBB is a PHP/MySQL-driven software that allows you to set up your own forum board on your site. Some of its current features include: Full featured bulletin board system, Full configurability, server-side, Many per-user options using a cookie-based system, Different authentication levels, Optionally count the views for a topic to see how popular it is, Optionally spread out long topic-lists and topics over multiple pages to save on load times, A complete set of emoticons for us in messages, Special tags that allows you to mimic HTML functionality, Multiple moderators per forum, A hierarchical stucture of Categories, Forums, Topics and Posts, See which people are online on ICQ and send ICQ messages to those persons, See which people are logged in, Login once, and stay logged in until you closed your last browser window, Certain malicious pieces of texts are automatically filtered out, Complete control over HTML-tags in various fields, A password mailer, A special field in the user-table, which admins can use to store notes about certain users, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4564.html LoudMouth Forum is a clean, robust, fully threaded forum built with PHP/MySQL and is available as a stand-alone package, or built into Mambo Open Source 3.0.6 and above. LoudMouth features the same clean admin interface as Mambo and the display pages are very easy to customize. New security integration with Mambo Open Source 3.0.6. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4563.html CyBoards PHP Lite is a lightweight PHP4/MySQL messageboard system with a threaded style similar to the classic WWWBoard. Features Include: Multiple forum support, Multiple index modes, Multiple read modes, Optional thread bumping, Admin/Moderator level web-based configuration/administration, Header/Footer templates, User-customizable time and forum modes, Image toggles, New message flagging, VIP flagging, User banning, Post deletion, Post locking, 'Sticky' posts, Message searching, Post expiration and Ban expiration, URL/Email auto-linking, and Email reply subscription. Localization support, Post Previewing, and Thread moving. 1.25 update: Optional forum email subscription, 4 New index styles, 5 new sorting modes, New index display options; and Bug fixes. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4562.html discussion is a threaded discussion board. It is written in PHP and uses a SQL database to store posts. The primary code exists in its own class to make adding it to your site easy. Features include: multiple board capability, easy customization, admin front end, ubb code, four display types, bleeps bad words, duplicate post checking, optional javascript use, unread posts marked 'new', anti-crunch, user memory and automatic email replies. 20010820 update: PEAR-related problems have been fixed + tested with access + mysql. Discussion now supports list caching. All HTML is valid 4.01 Transitional. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4561.html xBoard is a PHP/MySQL-based bulletin board system. Features: Customizable design (background, table colour, text colour, etc), Category support, xBCode, Moderators and administrators, File attachement, User profiles, Extensive search function, and many more. xBoard is written in German. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4560.html edmoBBS is not a cluttered and complex board system with membership requirements. It is instead, simple and modern. The goal of edmoBBS is to meet the needs of webmasters looking for an easy to manage and easy to use general purpose board which uses PHP and MySQL for efficiency and speed. Multiple boards can be created and managed with the poweful admin features. edmoBBS is available in two versions: A fully functional FREE version, and a more refined commercial version for $50.00. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4558.html fxboard is a fairly advanced free opensource php/mysql bulletin board system. Some of the features include: user registration, admin control panel, fully templated, delete and move threads, delete and edit posts, smileys, bb code (and auto bb code inserter), search, member list, users online count, and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4557.html Burning Board is a bulletin board software based on PHP4 and MySQL. Bunrning Board has many features that sets it apart from similar forum software: HTML Templates, User profiles (editable by user), User groups - give select moderators/users admin powers, Private forums, Word censor, Ban users, Support for smilies, BB Code or HTML in messages, and much more. Burning Board is available in English & German. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4556.html JBB is an easy to install Bulletin Board System based on php4 and MySQL. This is the first beta release yet still includes a lot of features. Currently, looking for developers and designers to join the project. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4555.html MyBoard is a full featured discussion board with MySQL as backend database server. Features include user authentication, moderator control over thread, language filter to reject messages with unwanted words. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4554.html 0wn f0rum a swiss discussion board system written in PHP that can be easily customized for any Web site. A working exemple can be seen at: http://www.xs-clan.ch.vu http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4553.html WMForum is a very simple discussion board program writen in PHP. It doesn't use any SQL database. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4552.html An easy to setup and use message board written PHP with MySql on the backend. Features: Avatars; Smilies; Advanced profiles; moderators, supermoderators and administrators; Database cleanup function; Standard thingies like quotes, delete messages; Private forums; and more. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4551.html electrifiedForum is a Web-based forum engine using PHP/MySQL. It supports many of the features the expensive forum systems offer, with a host of new features unique to eF, such as realms. It is currently being used at electrifiedpenguin.com as well many other sites. 1.70 Update: Numerous bug fixes, security fixes, performance improvements, and a number of new features including an all new ratings system. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4550.html electrifiedForum is a Web-based forum engine using PHP/MySQL. It supports many of the features the expensive forum systems offer, with a host of new features unique to eF, such as realms. It is currently being used at electrifiedpenguin.com as well many other sites. 1.70 Update: Numerous bug fixes, security fixes, performance improvements, and a number of new features including an all new ratings system. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4549.html UGroup is an online Collaborative Messaging System [CMS], all developed in PHP/MySQL. It is fast, and features nice interface, high security, unlimited Forum Categories/Forums/Topics, email notification and much much more functionalities. UGroup was designed to support Toronto PHP User Group. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4548.html ForoDAT is a text forum script written in Spanish. You can add and delete posts, filter special chars, include smiles and login. Nice, secure and simple. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4547.html L-Forum is a simple set of PHP scripts providing discussion forum to your web site. Features: full threading support, PostgreSQL and MySQL support, multiple design themes support, multiple language support, collapsing threads, removal of messages thru administration page, file upload, moderated forums and banning IP's from posting. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4546.html ActiveBB is a threaded bulletin board that was written in PHP and utilizes a MySQL database. The main goal of this bulletin board is to create a full-featured bulletin board that could be freely distributed. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4545.html idBB is an open source forum project, which is easy to use, and very stable. It has its own template system, which lets users use any template installed. Users can also change the forum language to their own language. Includes an easy to use, step by step installer. It also supports the most common BBCodes. Features a private message system; supports multiple boards on one database; admin section to manage users, forums, categories and admins, and view idBB source. Also supports private forums, which allows different type of groups to have their own private forums. http://www.advancescripts.com/detailed/4544.html This is a Lite Flash forum meant as an easy way for anyone to add a small Flash forum to their site. It uses only text files and one PHP script and should only take minutes to install. It is all contained in 1 movie clip so you can easily copy and paste it, or load it dynamically, into an existing Flash movie. The Lite version has a small file size, is quick, and is easy to install and modify - but is lacking some administration features.