What and Why of phpBB

The phpBB community forum is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.

What if the unthinkable happened? Your web host lost all your information... or you got hacked... or you accidentally deleted important tables in your database? Although phpBB is extremely popular online, and many sites use it for their forums, most webmasters don't think to backup their forum data. If their information would be lost, so would months or even years worth of user registrations, and user posts that they could never get back. phpBB is very easy to back up...here is how...

phpBB is the most widely used forum script currently on the web. This free and very powerful piece of software is easy to install and administer and allows flexibility in terms of design and organization. This phpBB tutorial will help you learn how to manage your discussion board.

A practical guide to creating and maintaining online discussion forums with phpBB, the leading free open source PHP/MySQL-based bulletin board Simple, practical steps to build and customize your own phpBB-powered online community Learn from experienced phpBB administrators and enthusiasts to get the most from phpBB Full coverage of powerful features including customization, administration and developing your own modifications.

phpBB is a fully customisable open source professional forum that can more than handle your community discussion needs. You can completely customise the layout, templates and feel to suit your needs. You can install this forum with just a few clicks, using Fantastico in your control panel.