Piękno w PHP

Today's focus:  A quick and easy to install open-source bulletin
board package

By Mark Gibbs

Over the past few years, I have become more and more impressed
with the scripting language PHP (although my favorite is still
Python). What is so interesting about PHP is that developers
have produced some remarkable products (free open source and
commercial), and for some reason these products usually have
great presentations: Their output tends to look good and they
almost always function elegantly.

Today's topic is a product that is no exception to this trend.
PhpBB (see editorial links below) is a "high powered, fully
scalable, and highly customizable open source bulletin board
package" that is one of the best bulletin board systems I have
seen.

PhpBB has a great interface, is quick and easy to install and
configure, is simple to administer, and is well documented and
supported, and runs with MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or
Access/ODBC database servers.

The feature list of phpBB is extensive and includes a
comprehensive access control and management system; support for
cookie and URI-based sessions; an unlimited number of forums
that can be organized into as many categories as needed;
unlimited user accounts and groups; personal profiles; a private
messaging system; forum moderation facilities; private forums
that can be optionally restricted to specified user groups; and
a search facility.

In addition, forum messages can be formatted using fonts, styles
and sizes with quoting, code display, image posting and
automatic URL linking, and support standard and extended BBCode
tags (phpBB's own tagging system) and controlled HTML tags.
Polls can be added to posts and e-mail notification of replies
to topics can be generated. In short, there's little in the way
of creating, running and managing forums that you can't do with
phpBB.

As the phpBB site accurately and immodestly notes: "phpBB is
open-source software so it has no fees, no subscriptions and no
restrictions on modifications. Couple this with a thriving and
friendly phpBB community and you have a killer solution for
creating communities on your site!"

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

phpBB home
http://www.phpbb.com/

phpBB user guide
http://www.phpbb.com/support/guide/

phpBB features
http://www.phpbb.com/features.php

phpBB user demonstration
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/

phpBB administrator's demonstration
http://www.phpbb.com/demo.php

phpBB FAQ
http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=faq