HostGator Review – User Reviews of Host Gator Web Hosting

phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board) is one of the best free open-source community forum creation software. It is built with php and uses mysql (postgresql, mssql, oracle and other database management systems are also supported) as a storage engine for forum data, settings, permissions, post, threads etc, licensed under the GNU General Public License. It supports module system with auth and other apis, where developers can easily add new features and settings to the standard ones. There is also a theme system where webmaster can add new themes and change the layout of the forum. Other standard features included are: user management with user registration, permissions per user/thread, administrators, moderators, usergroups, internationalization (available in several languages) with UTF-8 support. The current version is 3.06 released on 17 november 2010. Development for version 2 have ceased on 1 January 2009 and it is no longer supported. PHPBB3 is the best and the latest version offering much more features than the previous version, better security and optimizations. Many mods and templates are available free and paid ones. Before I installed vbulletin on my hostgator account I had phpbb version 2. I did not like that version so I bought vbulletin license. Currently I have vbulletin and though phpbb3 is very good forum software, I will not replace it with vbulletin because many features are same in both scripts.