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phpBB is a popular internet forum package written in the PHP programming language. The name phpBB is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free software...phpBB was started by James Atkinson (who has since resigned, as of 30th April 2007) as a simple UBB-like forum for his own website on June 17 2000...

— answers.com

Contents 1 Resources 1.1 Modifications 1.1.1 Portals 1.1.1.1 For PHPBB2 1.2 Styles and Themes 1.3 Tutorials 2 Ports of phpBB

Resources

Modifications

...known in phpBB parlance as "MODs":

• Foki, a mod for phpBB2 that integrates a wiki system

• phpBB Smith
  • phpBB2: Add Sections to your phpBB 2 FAQ
  • phpBB3: increase allowed subject length by altering MySQL
  • phpBB3: Secure Your Administration Control Panel

• doobdee.net: MODs for both phpBB2.x and phpBB3.x

• phpbb.cc
  • Mods created by phpbb.cc, hosted at Sourceforge
    • OpenID mod
  • wiki.phpbb.cc
  • blog.phpbb.cc ( Feed)

Portals

For PHPBB2

• mxBB portal and CMS
  • Downloads

Styles and Themes

• doobdee.net: Several styles for both phpBB2.x and phpBB3.x

Tutorials

• Creating modules for a phpBB3 forum
• Adding modules tutorial: ACP > System > Module Management >
  • Adding a Tab to the ACP, MCP or UCP
  • Adding a new Module to the ACP, MCP or UCP

• Templating tutorial for phpBB3
  • Changes in templating syntax from phpBB2 to phpBB3

• Adding pages to a phpBB3 forum

• Managing permissions

• Parsing text: BBCode, smilies

Ports of phpBB

• MetaBB: allows for the inclusion of activities, games—including RPG--and a currency system
• phpbbreloaded.org: based off the code of phpBB2

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O'Reilly/phpBB2
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ma.gnolia.com/tags/phpBB3	del.icio.us/popular/phpBB3
flickr/tags/phpBB3: most interesting; tag clusters for phpBB3; Flickr groups related to phpBB3	Google/phpBB3; GoogleBlogs search for phpBB3; Google CodeSearch for phpBB3
O'Reilly/phpBB3
reddedit/phpBB3	digg/phpBB3
furl/phpBB3	items tagged phpBB3 at SWIK
jaiku/phpBB3	twitter/phpBB3

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