PhpBB forum features

Features

• 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 can be organised into as many categories as you like.
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups.
• Powerful search facility.

• 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.

• 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.

• Unlimited members.
• Personal profile creation.
• Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users.
• Email-like private messaging system.
• Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars.

• Topic editing.
• Mass delete, move, lock, and unlock of posts.
• Topic splitting.
• Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis.

• General configuration.
• Forum and category setup.
• Disallowed usernames.
• User authorisation.
• Word censoring.
• Complete member management.
• Emoticon setup.
• Optional account 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.

• Multiple styles available for the user to choose from.
• Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C.