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Free and open source forum software written in PHP

phpBB, short for PHP Bulletin Board, is a forum software package written in PHP and available under the GNU General Public License.

It was created by James Atkinson in June 2000 as a UBB-like solution for his wife. The development team was soon joined by Nathan Codding and John Abela after phpBB's CVS repository moved to SourceForge.net. The pre-release version of phpBB was available the following July.

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Replace dt element with jQuery (phpBB)

I tried searching, but all the examples and answers I found I couldn't get to work. phpBB has the following lines of code:
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Simple Forum Software?

I'm looking for extremely simple forum software. Something that simply allows a user to create an account, make a post, and for users to comment on that post. No HTML, no user profiles, no private message, no bloat. Just software for simple…
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Creating a forum in phpBB3 from PHP and settings permissions

I'm attempting to create a new forum on an existing forum. I can create the new forum quite easily and view it from the admin console. The problem is I need it to show up at the front end as well for users. This is done via permissions. What I am…
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phpbb3's slow indexing of new messages

I try to found solution to improve phpbb3 new message indexing. I have about 10000 messages on my forum, and each new message adds VERY long time (20-30 sec). I've checked mysql_slow.log and found long queries there which is actually adding message…
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How to disable "Contact a Board Administrator"?

The page /forum/memberlist.php?mode=contactadmin leads to this page that allows a guest to spam. How to completely disable this "Contact a Board Administrator" feature in phpBB 3? Sample spam message: Hello Administrator, The following is an…
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curl gives 403 error?

I'm trying to set a cookie for my phpBB forums from a MediaWiki login page. Using the hook after a login to the wiki is successful, I want to run a php script that sets the cookie. The script works when I run it independently or when I use GET ,…
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Connecting to second database not working in CodeIgniter

Im trying to intergrate phpbb3 with code igniter. im pretty successful but im tryying to access the forum database and it not working. This is currently what I have in my database file. /** FORUM DATABASE **/ $active_group = 'forum'; $active_record…
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Non-static method utf_normalizer::nfc() should not be called statically

At the moment, I am installing PHPBB 3.0.10 and am having this error: Strict Standards: Non-static method utf_normalizer::nfc() should not be called statically in C:\xampp\htdocs\PHPBB\includes\utf\utf_tools.php on line 1781 I have tried to find an…
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Is there nodejs forum engine like punbb/phpbb?

I've googled / searched npm and have been surprised that there aren't any punbb/phpbb forum engines on top of nodejs. If you know one, plz share a link to
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sed regex stop at first match

I want to replace part of the following html text (excerpt of a huge file), to update old forum formatting (resulting from a very bad forum porting job done 2 years ago) to regular phpBB formatting: <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1"…
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Authenticate phpBB using custom MS-SQL database

How can I let my users to log into a phpBB forum by entering their user credentials while these credentials are stored in a separate MS SQL database?
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What are these characters for within PHPBB tags?

I'm in the process of migrating a website using PHPBB forums to a new microsoft platform that doesn't use the same tag markup (for things like Bold, Italic, Images etc). I've just noticed in the MySql database for the existing PHPBB site, that…
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Phpbb Spam Delete

I installed phpbb forum in my website. But there is lot of spam topics and spam post in it right now. I went through many googling and found out that if I install a captcha module then I could prevent spam. But is there anyway I could remove spam…
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Django, phpBB and MediaWiki unified login

I have a website built with Django that I would like to combine with phpBB (negotiable; if you have suggestions for better suited full-featured forums, please let me hear them) and MediaWiki. Specifically, I would like to have a unified login scheme…
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Can phpBB receive posts sent by email?

I mean if is it possible to use phpBB like a mailing-list: sending a new e-mail creates new forum topic, responding to an existing e-mail creates comment to an existing forum topic.
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