| General | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.0.8
|
2.6.4
|
1.6.3
|
2015-07-13
|
5.2.9a
|
| Release Date |
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
|
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
The phpBB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
MyBB Group
|
Yves Goergen
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
General Public License
|
GPL
|
Custom
|
GPL
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
| License cost |
0.00
|
0
|
US$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
|||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
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 |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
|||
| Forums | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
multiple levels
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
|
| Notification | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
Jabber
|
0
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| 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
|
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | phpBB | Vanilla | MyBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| remove phpBB | remove Vanilla | remove MyBB | remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove Phorum |