| General | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.7
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2.6.4
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5.2.9a
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3.2.3
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| Release Date |
2015-06-04 (11 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
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2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2016-02-08 (10 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
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2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
|
| Author |
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
Invision Power Services
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
Commercial
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
0
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5.2+
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| BBCode |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Worming, Pilllorying
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
| Notification | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Yes
|
0
|
No
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| 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
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| 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
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | Phorum | Invision Power Board |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL
|
||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
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