A community software package with customizable and user-selectable themes.

• Free
• Commercial

A highly customizable forums package with a user-friendly interface, simple and straight-forward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.

Uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as the backend and has conversion utilities for the popular Perl CGI scripts WWWBoard, WebBBS and Discus. Allows for moderated posting, ability to quote text, can handle multiple forums with one script, cookies to remember user info and many more features. Includes a web-based administration area that lets you manage threads and control appearance.

• Free

An effecient and feature rich forum system with a suite of moderation and admin tools. Support plans and installation service available.

• $59.95
• $149

A complete forum package for your web site that features multiple board capability, extensive template usage for customization, integrated search, user groups, private forums, powerful web-based administrative capabilities and much more.

• $160

Database-driven message board with flexibility for admins and users. It features unlimited forums, a web-based control panel, moderation, skins, per-forum templates, multi-language, flat and threaded mode, notifications, tech support and more.

• $199+

A forum script that is very easy to install and administer. Visitors can post new topics or discuss other topics. Posting is protected from spam by a CAPTCHA image. The admin has their own page which is password protected.

• $24.99

A bulletin board system with WYSIWYG editing, configurable side menus, thread rating, attachments, avatars, signatures, friends, ignore, private messaging, daily digests and much more.

• $99

A simple web forum that features classical or message board thread view, categories, registered users, email notification of replies, searching, BB-code and smiley support, image upload, RSS-feed and an easy customizable layout.

• Free

A bulletin board system with features like WYSIWYG editors, customizable themes, JavaScript dock, a news system, shoutbox, threaded mode and more.

• Free

This forum system features optimized code structure and database, CAPTCHA registration protection, feature enabling/disabling, GZIP code to set up optimal compression level, configurable spam and email bots protection, email hiding, admin restricting, banning options, control panel logs, a backup system, skinning, private messaging and more.

• Free

A fast, light-weight, open source discussion board.

• Free

This forum includes color skins, language packs, universal HTML templates, interface language change per user, customizable date and search, basic BB codes, anonymous and registered users hierarchy, email notifications for users and admin, stats, encrypted cookie logging, IP tracking/banning, spam protection and more.

A complete bulletin board system with easy installation and usage. It features Jabber IM support, powerful access rights management, full Unicode support, multiple designs and languages, polls, avatars and attachments.

• Free

A bulletin board script written in object-oriented PHP4. Designed for optimum speed with a long list of features.

• Free

A message board that is ideal for webmasters who don't need or want big forums on their sites. It doesn't require any SQL databases. It stores all posts as HTML pages and features smileys, instant new post notification, easy deletion of inappropriate posts, style customization, email protection from harvesters and a bad words filter.

• Free

This script supports 9 languages, including Chinese, Russian and more. Offers many features and does not require an SQL database.

• Free

A powerful database-driven communications system which allows you and your visitors to store and display messages, files, and other information on your web site. Features include: multiple forums, multi-language support, fully customizable templates, web-based administration, file upload, integrated search and more...

• Free

An easy-to-install forum that features text formatting, HTML filtering, admin, icons, smilies, links, twenty color schemes, searching, image insertion, 13 languages and more.

• Free

A powerful, light-weight forums package that is customizable and feature rich.

• Free

A fast, scalable, and robust forum with all the features seen in common forum scripts, as well as an advanced theme and template system, user group and permission inheritance structure, a plugin architecture to easily add new features, a translation system, and AJAX-based inline subject and message editing.

• Free

A small, fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. Its primary goals are to be a faster, smaller and easier to use alternative to the many other discussion boards available. It outputs semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages with external CSS stylesheets. It is quick and simple to install, use and admin.

• Free

A skinnable website engine, featuring multiple categories, links, pages, smilies, BBcode, a built-in news system, built-in forums, user profiles, comments, ratings, an event manager, polls, admin tools, stat and localization support.

• Free
• Commercial

Create your own message board. It's very easy to install and run. You can customize the style and tranlate it to different languages.

• Free

This script features auto install/upgrade, a WYSIWYG editor with integrated spell-checker, auto time zone detection, smart caching, a visual CSS editor with real-time preview, and native file format support for phpBB, Invision Board, UBB Threads and vBulletin.

• $89