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Free Message Boards PHP Scripts

Use one of these free scripts to add a message board or forum to your website.

Quick.Forum

Simple Installation - This tool is based on secure flat files (SQL base not required). Installation takes just a few minutes and just the basic knowledge about FTP connection is needed. Stability - Application has been used since december 2003. Because of a common access to this application, any errors are immediately detected and removed. Speed - designing this application, we tried to minimize the HTML code and also made possible generating small pictures, making web loading as short as possible. Standards - our solutions are compatible with XHTML 1.0 and also with settings of most of the popular servers. Template system - we made our best to seperate the logic and presentational layers from each other. The application outlook change, is really simple and it works through templates in which complicated PHP language is not used at all.
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Requirements: PHP
Version: N/A
Status: GPL

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Maran PHP Forum

This simple forum script doesn't use mySQL for the database, it uses a flat file .txt. No authentification module is available.
Requirements: PHP
Version: N?A
Status: Free

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Chipmunk Forum

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, e-mail ban from registration and much more.
Requirements: PHP and MySQL
Version: N/A
Status: Free with copyright link
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MBoard

MBoard is a message board script (a simple, non-threaded forum). It is ideal for webmasters who don't need or want big (and empty) forums on their sites and are looking for a smaller, simple yet effective solution. MBoard doesn't require any SQL databases. It stores all posts as HTML pages so it doesn't take up much of the server resources (what is usually the case with larger flat-text database forums). Features include support for smileys, instant "New post" notification, easy deletion of inappropriate posts etc. It even comes with a bad words filter which replaces all bad words with **** in new posts! You can completely customize the look of the message board by editing header, footer and style files!
Requirements: PHP
Version: 1.21
Status: Free with link back

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class-1 Forum Software

class-1 Forum Software is a PHP/MySQL driven web forum. It is fully functioning and offers the following advanced features (amongst many others); Extremely 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. Full database backup/restore. Attachments. Fully secure.
Requirements: PHP and MySQL
Version: 0.24.4
Status: Free

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phpBB

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.
Requirements: PHP and MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC
Version: 2.0.15
Status: Free

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Tagger Luxury Edition

Tagger LE is a tagboard (mini message board) that will add visitor interactivity with your website and a form of communication to one and another. Tagger's many features include an Administration panel, IP Banning, Smart Auto Refresh, Smilies, Imposter prevention, and more. A perfect addition to a website lacking interactivity. This solution uses a Flat File Database (MySQL is not required).
Requirements: PHP
Version: N/A
Status: Free

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SEO-Board

SEO-Board is a forum software that's fast, free, and search engine friendly. It is the perfect solution for small and medium-sized sites. Features:- No bloat. No fancy features. Just blazing speed. Does not take too many server resources. PHP and HTML are separated for ultra easy customization. Is flexible. Can fit into your site design. Anti-spam protection. Admin can ban IP/IP ranges/Users/Emails. Full moderator support. Message preview; locked and sticky topics; new topics highlight. Search Engine Friendly: comes with Apache mod_rewrite support; cookie-based sessions (no SessionIDs in the URLs) Multi-language pack support. Support for Private, Read-Only, Post-Only, Guest, HTML-Allowed, Topic Creation-Time Sorted Forums. Basic BBCode and Smilie support.
Requirements: PHP and MySQL
Version: 1.0
Status: Free - with copyright link

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Unclassified NewsBoard

The Unclassified NewsBoard is an open-source, PHP-based internet bulletin board software, almost like any other around. But the difference is a lot of details that make your life with this board, both as administrator and user, much easier. You’ll be surprised how easy things can be and how fast you can work with such a system! The Unclassified NewsBoard has a lot innovative features the world has never seen before.
Requirements: PHP and MySQL
Version: 1.5.3
Status: Free

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tribbyBoard

tribbyBoard is a free threaded message board script. It is not meant to be a replacement for gigantic bulletin board systems such as VBulletin or phpBB. Instead, it is designed to be a simple, easy-to-setup threaded message board for people who don't need all of the bells and whistles of some of the other boards available. Unlike software such as WWWBoard and Ikonboard, tribbyBoard uses a MySQL database instead of a text database -- this makes it infinately faster and more reliable. The look of the board is completely customizable - it's as simple as modifying the HTML files which serve as templates!
Requirements: PHP and MySQL
Version: 1.31
Status: Free

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