PhpBB

phpBB is a popular .

Besides the database support, some of phpBB s greatest advantages are: *A templating system designed with ease of use and rapid customisation in mind *Internationalisation support with 54 translations available at the time of writing. Supporters of phpBB may claim that phpBB has the most translations available of any web-based forum software. *Large community of users providing free support and modifications

=Latest releases=

*1.4.x ( *2.0.x ( *3.0.x Olympus (

See also: Software development

=History=

phpBB was started by .

phpBB 1.0.0 was released on December 16, 2000, with subsequent improvements to the 1.x codebase coming in two more major installments. (phpBB 1.2.0 was released on February 16, 2001 and 1.4.0 on April 25, 2001.) The final release in the 1.x line was phpBB 1.4.4, released on November 6, 2001. During the lifetime of the 1.x series, Bart van Bragt, Paul S. Owen (former co-manager of the project), Johnathan Haase (now a former team member) and Frank Feingold joined the team.

phpBB 2.0.x was begun on . Releases in the 2.0.x line are now restricted to bug and security fixes, and 2.0.x is the only line for which support is currently given.

See also: [http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.phpp=135543#135543 phpBB History (2000-2002)]

=Future=

With the new 2.0.x codebase in a stable state, the development team, now led by Meik Sievertsen, has begun building upon and altering the codebase to produce Olympus ; when it reaches production quality, it will be released as 3.0.0. The improvements in Olympus to date are comparable with the improvements between 1.4.x and 2.0.x. It was originally planned to be released as 2.2.0, however, in keeping with the Linux Kernel numbering scheme, because 2.1.x eliminated virtually all compatibility with the 2.0.x line, the version number for release was changed to 3.0.0.

==Improvements due in 3.0.0==

The Olympus codebase is now feature frozen, but the developers are prone to keep some features up their sleeves. However, an incomplete list of additional (over 2.0.x) features expected for the 3.0.0 release follows.

*DBMS (DataBase Management System) support widened **Firebird **SQLite *Friend/Foe lists *Forum model overhauled **Forum rules can be given for each forum, either as text or a URI **Link forums added (redirecting to a specified URI) **Styles can be set on a per-forum basis **Subforum functionality added; subforums can be nested without limit. ***Categories are now a type of forum; forums are added to them as subforums *Performance significantly improved, partially by removing PHP3 compatibility *Permission system reworked **Automatic groups

Administrators

Bots

Guests

Registered Users

Registered COPPA Users

Super Moderators

Unapproved Users

Unapproved COPPA Users

**Fully atomic permissions; control even the abilities of administrators

Super Moderators added, for easier creation of a board-wide moderation team

*Private messaging reworked **Custom message boxes **Draft messages **Filters **Multiple recipients **Tracked conversations *Templating system overhauled **Caching of compiled templates **Images in a style can now be switched by changing the imageset **Online style editor added to the admin panel ***Choose images to form an imageset ***Edit CSS-based themes ***Edit HTML-based templates, and store the changes on the filesystem or in the database *Topic/post system overhauled **Add attachments **Copy topics

Global announcements, displayed in all forums

**Icons for topics **Move (merge) multiple posts into another topic **Posts can be automatically placed in a moderation queue for approval **Report posts to moderators

=External links=

*[http://www.phpbb.com/ phpBB Homepage] *[http://area51.phpbb.com/ phpBB Development Area] (a preview of the upcoming major phpBB release).