| General | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2.9a
|
2.6.4
|
0.4
|
3.0.8
|
| Release Date |
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2007-02-18 (17 years ago)
|
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2007-02-19 (17 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
Phorum Dev Team
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
James Greenwood
|
The phpBB Group
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
General Public License
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0.00
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
|||
| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| BBCode |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
None
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|||
| Forums | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
No
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
|
| Notification | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
0
|
Jabber
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Community | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Avatars |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
No
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Languages |
0
|
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
0
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Statistics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | Phorum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | phpBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove Phorum | remove Vanilla | remove Monkey Boards | remove phpBB |