BBS/Forum System

phpBB

phpBB has been among the leading bulletin board solutions and quickly rose to be the world's leading forum software based on PHP/Mysql platform. phpBB has always comprised of a key feature set, including powerful permission systems, private messaging, search functions, a customisable template and language system, as well as support for multiple databases.

 

The latest major release, phpBB3 “Olympus”.

YaBB

YaBB is a leading forum software package that rivals any professional message board out there. It provides a real-time chat and support system for your visitors. While chat programs allow people to talk directly, you have to be on at the same time as others. With forum software like YaBB, you can talk any time, and everyone can join in the conversation! Build a community and get visitors to come back for interesting discussions, fun chit chat, or needed support without having to spend thousands of dollars.

 

Why choose YaBB? This system is the world's first and most popular perl forum software!

JForum

JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Java. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.

 

Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend.

Snitz

Snitz Forums 2000 is a ASP platform forum package that allows different people on the Internet or an Intranet to leave messages for each other, and then reply. It's made by the Snitz Forums 2000 community, designed to run on IIS with support for both MS Access databases, MySQL and MS SQL. There are even some Oracle versions in use.