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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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Migrate phpBB forum to phpFox

I am struggling to find a migration tool from phpBB to phpFox. It seems that there is no ready made script so I would have to do it myself. I want to use the default phpFox forum. I would appreciate some insight if anyone has done a similar thing.…
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cakephp website with phpBB or simple machines forums possible?

I have a website made with CakePHP 1.3.7. This website has it's own login system. Now the client wants to include a forum in the website. I've been looking at different free solutions and phpBB and SMF seem to be what I'm looking for. The only thing…
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Parse multiline BBCode with C# Regex

I'm working on a C# class to parse BBCodes out of text pulled from a database for PHPBB posts. On the PHPBB there is a custom BBCode added which looks like this: [deck={TEXT1}]{TEXT2}[/deck] Which, sitting in the database, looks like…
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How to find phpBB user that has custom field equal to '1234'?

I have a phpBB installation. I've added custom profile field called 'insurance number'. Every user has different value there. I would like to get a user that has the value equal to '1234'. How to get a user by the custom field?
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Is there a open-source forum that I can integrate my current members database with?

So what im trying to do is save myself coding a forum... I've got a members table already with their passwords, username etc etc... and I want a forum system that can possibly be linked with my members table. So then they don't have to re-signup if…
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phpBB auto-scaling

I'm currently working on a large project which is expected to have a large amount of user activity. We're currently developing the website using Amazon Web Services so that we can ensure that if needed the site will scale to handle user load. A part…
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What are some good tips and tools to use when fixing PHPBB DB corruption?

Good evening! I run a moderately large, PHPBB forum, which has various (for the time being) non-fatal amount of data corruption. for example, I started noticing what appear to be PHPBB "names" substituted in places they should not be, such as menu…
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Web Application Integration with other applications

I have a web application that requires Blog Forum Chat support etc Now my web application have different functionality but these above are additional value added services that we provide integrated with our application. I do not want to write…
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PhpBB vs Jforum wrt customization

People have been saying that JForum is easily customizable, and lots of other things in favor of JForum. Through this question, I want to know from those who have used both Jforum and phpbb, that how easy or difficult is customization of the forum…
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Cannot insert phpBB picture in Gmail message

It's necessary to insert an image from phpBB forum into Gmail message, for example https://colnect.com/forums/download/file.php?id=569926 but get error: We can't find the image at that URL. On other hand I can insert picture from another phpBB…
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Scaling phpBB?

I'm looking to scale an existing phpBB installation by separating the read queries from the write queries to two separate, replicated MySQL servers. Anyone succeeded in doing this, specifically with phpBB? The biggest concern I have so far is that…
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Strip phpbb bbcode

I want to display the most recent posts from my phpbb3 forum on my website, but without the bbcode. so I'm trying to strip the bbcode but without succes one of the posts for example could be: [quote="SimonLeBon":3pwalcod]bladie bla…
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What is my best option for converting my phpbb2 latin1 DB to a phpbb3 utf8 DB?

I am upgrading a phpBB 2.x forum to phpBB 3.x and I'm trying to figure out what the best option is for converting to utf8 from the previous latin1 encoding. Right now I'm still just working on my phpBB2 database dump file. I used sed to update the…
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Trying to remove the underline from a visited link in phpBB

I don't know if it's possible, or advisable even if it is. I'm using phpBB 3.2.3 I've replaced every instance of the word underline in styles/prosilver/theme/links.css with the word none. After doing that, I then changed the following line of…
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web platform installer and sql server enterprise

i tied to install phpbb forum from web platform installer all dependencies installed but when i was needed to config sql server for forum, it asked me for instance name, but i saw that my sql server enterprise edition hasn't instance name so i a…
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