Open Source Message Board Software

PLEASE NOTE: Latest XOOPS files are on http://github.com/xoops and http://github.com/xoopsmodules25x) XOOPS is a Web application platform written in PHP for the MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for developing small or large community websites, intra-company and corporate portals, weblogs, and much more. XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Initially a portal system, XOOPS is now a leading content management system (CMS) that serves as a versatile Web framework. XOOPS can also be used as a weblog or journal via a standard install using the News module alone. Another approach is to use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links, etc. to form a community that interacts with members and visitors. Or think big, like an enterprise, and develop modules to use with eShop that integrate into XOOP's uniform user management system. XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

PHPFusion is an award-winning open source content management system (CMS). PHPFusion is written in PHP and MySQL and includes a simple, comprehensive administration system. Demos : https://demos.php-fusion.co.uk/

mvnForum is a open source, powerful, easy to use/setup bulletin board (forum) built on the J2EE technology(Jsp/Servlet) and compatible with any Servlet Container which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. The official home page is www.mvnForum.com

Pebble is a lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool. It's small, fast and feature-rich with unrivalled ease of installation and use. Blog content is stored as XML files on disk and served up dynamically, so there's no need to install a database

Lurker is a mailing list archiver designed for capacity, speed, simplicity, and configurability in that order. Noteworthy features include: google-style searching on all fields, chronology preserving threads, multilingual, and attachment support.

UseBB 1, a classic PHP 4 based bulletin board package, currently out of development.

FUDforum is a super fast and scalable discussion forum. It is highly customizable and supports unlimited members, forums, posts, topics, polls & attachments. It can import XML Feeds and sync with USENET groups and Mailing Lists (bi-directional).

Information Screens a web based dynamic screen-software, which makes it possible to show live WEB TV, booking informations, commercials, videos, pictures, texts and many other known file formats, in different shaped frames on larger screens.

I started this project because I wanted a dead-simple blog. One that didn't need a database, used flat text files, and looked nice. It's main advantage is that it only requires PHP 5 and write permissions. There is no setup, just unzip and copy.

An easy-to-configure, web-based, multi-user news reader written in Perl.

dnfBB is a powerful and fast 3 Tier, C# discussion board or forum for websites running ASP.NET. Native support for multiple forums within the same db structure. Designed to work with Firebird and MySQL, support for additional RDBMSs in the future.

This forum software is a Java based discussion forum, that uses JDBC to store data in a database. This discussion forum is available in different languages and has features for easy integration into a site and easy administration of forum.