- Comparison of Internet forum software (PHP)
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This is a comparison of the features of various Internet forum packages written in PHP.
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General information
Basic general information about the forums: creator/company, license/price etc.
Creator Latest release date Current stable version License Automatic Updates (for security) Beehive Forum Project Beehive Forum Developers 2011-02-14 1.0.1 GPL manually bbPress Automattic 2009-07-28 1.1 GPL Yes Discuz! Comsenz Technology Co., Ltd. 2010-10-20 7.2 Discuz! EULA (proprietary, gratis for non-commercial use) manually e107 e107 (CMS) 2011-04-06 0.7.25 GPL manually FluxBB FluxBB.org Developers 2011-09-13 1.4.7 GPL manually FUDforum Ilia Alshanetsky and community 2011-07-17 3.0.3RC1 GPL manually ImperialBB ImperialBB.com 2010-02-28 1.0 GPL manually IceBB XAOS Interactive 2010-12-02 1.0 GPL manually Invision Power Board Invision Power Services Inc. 2011-08-31 3.2.2 Proprietary manually MercuryBoard Jason Warner, Mark Elliot, and Jonathan West 2008-02-24 1.1.7 GPL manually miniBB Paul Puzyrev & Sergei Larionov 2010-10-05 2.5a GPL manually MyBB MyBB Group 2011-07-26 1.6.4 LGPL manually NextBBS Chris FR & Team 2008-02-18 0.5.3 GPL manually NinkoBB Nijikokun 2010-03-16 1.3 RC5 GPL manually NovaBoard Developers and Community 2010-06-13 1.1.4 Artistic License 2.0 manually OvBB Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto 2007-04-06 V0.16a MIT manually Phorum Brian Moon 2011-09-09 5.2.18 Phorum License 2 (BSD like) manually phpBB3 phpBB Ltd. 2011-07-10 3.0.9 GPL Yes PunBB Rickard Andersson 2011-09-18 1.3.6 GPL manually Quicksilver Forums Geoff Dunn, Roger Libiez (Samson) & The Quicksilver Forums Development Team 2011-01-16 1.5 GPL manually Simple Machines 1 Simple Machines 2011-09-18 1.1.15 Proprietary[1] manually Simple Machines 2 Simple Machines 2011-09-18 2.0.1 BSD License[1] manually Simply AJAX Forum System (SAFS) Fast Track Sites 2010-05-20 3.10.05.20 Proprietary[2] manually Tritanium Bulletin Board Tritanium Scripts 2011-11-04 1.6 CC 3.0 by-nc-sa manually UBB.threads Mindraven, Inc. 2010-08-21 7.5.6 Proprietary manually UseBB Dietrich Moerman 2011-11-04 1.0.14 GPL manually Vanilla Vanilla Forums Inc. 2011-11-03 2.0.18 GPL manually vBulletin vBulletin Solutions Inc. 2011-11-04 4.1.7pl2 Proprietary manually WhiteBoard Eli White & SaroSoftware 2010-05-30 0.1.30 GPL manually Woltlab Burning Board WoltLab GmbH 2011-08-26 3.1.6 proprietary manually XenForo XenForo Ltd. 2011-07-06 1.0.3 Proprietary manually XMB XMB Software 2009-03-01 1.9.11 GPL manually NitPick2011 ? 2011-09-18 1.0 ? manually Creator Latest release date Current stable version License Automatic Updates (for security) Features
Flat Threaded User-selectable themes Calendar Image attachment Unread message tracking WYSIWYG Editor Beehive Forum Yes Yes Yes No Yes Full Yes (using TinyMCE) bbPress Yes Plugin Yes No Plugin Plugin Plugin Discuz! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes e107 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes FluxBB Yes No Yes No No Session No FUDforum Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full Yes IceBB Yes No Yes No Yes Full No Invision Power Board Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full Yes kusaba Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? No MercuryBoard Yes No Yes No Yes Session No miniBB Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No MyBB Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full Plugin NextBBS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full Yes NinkoBB Yes No No No No ? No NovaBoard Yes No Yes No Yes Full No Phorum Yes Yes Yes No Yes Full No phpBB3 Yes No Yes Plugin Yes Full Planned PunBB Yes Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin Session Plugin Quicksilver Forums Yes No Yes No Yes Full No Simple Machines 1 Yes No Yes Yes Yes Full No Simple Machines 2 Yes No Yes Yes Yes Full Yes Simply AJAX Forum System (SAFS) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Full No Tritanium Bulletin Board Yes No Yes Planned Yes Full No UBB.threads Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full Planned (Version 8.0) UseBB Yes No Yes No No Session No Vanilla Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin vBulletin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full Yes WhiteBoard Yes No Planned Yes No Full No Woltlab Burning Board Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full Yes XenForo Yes Yes Yes No Yes Full Yes XMB Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? No NitPick2011 Yes Yes No No Yes No No Flat Threaded User-selectable themes Calendar Image attachment Unread message tracking WYSIWYG Editor Data storage
Information about what data storage system can be used.
MySQL PostgreSQL MSSQL Oracle SQLite Firebird Beehive Forum Yes No No No No No bbPress Yes No No No No No Discuz! Yes Yes No No No No e107 Yes No No No No No FluxBB Yes Yes No No Yes No FUDforum Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IceBB Yes No No No No No Invision Power Board Yes No Yes ($75) No No No kusaba Yes No No No No No MercuryBoard Yes No No No No No miniBB Yes No No No No No MyBB Yes Yes No No Yes No NextBBS Yes Yes No No Yes No NinkoBB Yes No No No No No NovaBoard Yes No No No No No Phorum Yes Yes No No No No phpBB3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes PunBB Yes Yes No No Yes No Quicksilver Forums Yes No No No No No Simple Machines 1 Yes No No No No No Simple Machines 2 Yes Yes No No Yes No Simply AJAX Forum System (SAFS) Yes No No No No No Tritanium Bulletin Board Planned (Version 2.0) No No No No No UBB.threads Yes No No No No No UseBB Yes No No No No No Vanilla Yes No No No No No vBulletin Yes No No No No No WhiteBoard Yes No No No No No WoltLab Burning Board Yes No No No No No XenForo Yes No No No No No XMB Yes No No No No No NitPick2011 No No No No No No MySQL PostgreSQL MSSQL Oracle SQLite Firebird See also
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