 Installation
▪ Simple installation that will have you up and running in
minutes
▪ Complete upgrade from V1.x
Database Server
Support
phpBB uses a database abstraction layer to enable seamless
support of several database servers:
▪ MySQL 3.2x,
▪ PostgreSQL 7.x,
▪ Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000
▪ Microsoft Access (via ODBC)
▪ ...with more databases available in the future.
Security
▪ 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 &
Categories
▪ Unlimited forums can be organised into as many
categories as you like
▪ Private forums and those only for specified user
groups
▪ Powerful search facility
Posting Messages
▪
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
Versatile User
Groups & Forum Permissions
▪ 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
Member Features
▪ Unlimited members
▪ Personal profile creation
▪ Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for
users
▪ Email-like private messaging system
▪ Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars
Moderation
Features
▪ 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
Easy to Use
Administration Centre
▪ General configuration
▪ Forum & category setup
▪ Easy database backup and restore
▪ Disallowed usernames
▪ User authorisation
▪ Word censoring
▪ Complete member management
▪ Emoticon setup
▪ Optional new post 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
Style and
Customisation
▪ 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
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