Open Source Linux Message Board Software

phpBB is the world's leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in today's top of the line software.

PHPFusion is an award-winning open source content management system (CMS). PHPFusion is written in PHP and MySQL and includes a simple, comprehensive administration system. Demos : https://demos.php-fusion.co.uk/

PLEASE NOTE: Latest XOOPS files are on http://github.com/xoops and http://github.com/xoopsmodules25x) XOOPS is a Web application platform written in PHP for the MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for developing small or large community websites, intra-company and corporate portals, weblogs, and much more. XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Initially a portal system, XOOPS is now a leading content management system (CMS) that serves as a versatile Web framework. XOOPS can also be used as a weblog or journal via a standard install using the News module alone. Another approach is to use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links, etc. to form a community that interacts with members and visitors. Or think big, like an enterprise, and develop modules to use with eShop that integrate into XOOP's uniform user management system. XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

e107 is a website content management (CMS) system written in PHP and MySQL. It installs a completely dynamic website on your server allowing you complete control of your site from a secure and intuitive, yet powerful and flexible admin area. Coded HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap 5, jQuery. Full source and changelog available on Github.

Flarum is a delightfully simple forum software for your website. It’s simple, fast and friendly, with all the features you need to build a great and successful community. Flarum is built with PHP with no complex dependencies. It’s beautifully and carefully designed to be responsive and consistent across all platforms. More than just a nice skin, it’s packed full of innovative features including a two-pane interface, floating composer, swipe gestures, themes, smart notifications and so much more. It can also be customized and extended to suit your community even better thanks to its amazingly flexible architecture and powerful Extension API.

YaBB is a FREE Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time and reply to anyone!

FUDforum is a super fast and scalable discussion forum. It is highly customizable and supports unlimited members, forums, posts, topics, polls & attachments. It can import XML Feeds and sync with USENET groups and Mailing Lists (bi-directional).

I started this project because I wanted a dead-simple blog. One that didn't need a database, used flat text files, and looked nice. It's main advantage is that it only requires PHP 5 and write permissions. There is no setup, just unzip and copy.

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A perl-based web application and web site framework designed to let the people who create the content manage it, and let the technical folks get back to tech stuff.

Scribe is a click-efficient forum that runs on a flat-file database and employs powerful, dynamic features to enhance the user's experience.

Program PBBoard is interactive Forum management program Dialogic Free classified as free software and open source, is located under the GNU GPL, is written in PHP and based on MySQL database engine And PBBoard now in its third generation version 3.0, this version includes integration between design standard High-level as well as high security, as well as multi-language interface and empowerment Full of multiple databases for planning modulating complete with a lack of effort on servers. https://pbboard.info

This project is now known as Apache Roller. The code that exists here in this SourceForge project is obsolete and unmaintained.

JsMath is a means of including mathematical notation in web pages. It interprets TeX code within your document and uses JavaScript, CSS and unicode fonts to typeset the resulting formulas. It works across multiple browsers and platforms, without MathML

More than just another PHP forum, w-agora is a fully customizable web publishing & communication software. Features includes multiple databases support, multiple sites & forums, user management, web based administration, and more...

Navboard is a php based web forum using text files to store data instead of using a database, compatible with any server running php 4.0 or higher, all the features of most major forum software and no installation needed.

MGB is a free OpenSource Guestbook completely written in PHP, using JavaScript and a MySQL Database. Easy to use, flexible and customizable with templates to make it fit 100% to your homepage.

PNphpBB2 is a forum module for PostNuke based on current phpBB. The material here is outdated, all development and latest downloads are at http://trac.postnuke.com/phpbb/

phpOCS (Online Community System) is a fully featured system for setting up a club-based website, similar to Yahoo! Groups. It features message boards, galleries, calendars and content management. Also, fully customisable profiles are possible.

IntegraMOD Nederland(s) is a pre-modded version of phpbb2 with the best MODs for phpbb made to work with each other (compatibility of modifications). IntegraMOD stand for Integrated MODs. Main addon is IM Portal (forum-wide integration portal blocks).

JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Java. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more. Built from the ground up around an MVC framework , it can be deployed on any Servlet 3.1 container or application server running at least Java 8, such as Tomcat, Jetty and JBoss/WildFly. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend. There is extensive documentation of all aspects of the software at https://sourceforge.net/p/jforum2/wiki2/Home/ Source code and a beta build are available for running JForum on JakartaEE 10 environments such as Tomcat 10.1; it requires Java 11. This has not been tested as extensively, but does not have any known bugs. It is freely available under the BSD license, and has recently been awarded the SourceForge "Community Choice" badge.

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Internet Discussion Boards is a message board system by Game Maker 2k. Its very easy to set up. Your web host needs PHP and CUBRID / MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL / SQLite. Internet Discussion Boards is Open Source so you can make changes to it.

secured WebGine is a mix between a content management system and an application framework. Its focus is security and a logical API.

Gravity Board X is forum software written in PHP and MySQL. GBX features a unique front page layout, and version 2.0 will push the envelope with features such as a CSS-based layout, WYSIWYG message editor and AJAX framework.