| General | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.4
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3.0.8
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2.6.4
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2.0.6
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1.4.7
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| Release Date |
2007-02-18 (17 years ago)
|
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
|
2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2007-02-19 (17 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
|
| Author |
James Greenwood
|
The phpBB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Simple Machines
|
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
General Public License
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0.00
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0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
SQLite File Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
None
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
No
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
An Akismet mod is available
|
Worming, Pilllorying
|
|
| Notification | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Jabber
|
Yes
|
||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Community | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Avatars |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Moderation | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Moderators |
global
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Search | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
No
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Languages |
0
|
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
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Data Management | Monkey Boards | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF | Beehive Forum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
None (cannot be exported)
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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