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.
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Security |
- Designed with security as a priority
- Powerful and extensive authorization system
- Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
- Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions
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Unlimited
Forums & Categories |
- Unlimited forums can be organized into as many
categories as you like
- Private forums and those only for specified user groups
- Powerful search facility
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 colors with cascading
style sheets (CSS)
- Active community creating add-ons and specialized
modifications
- Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01
recommendations from the W3C
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