SCARF is a php based system that helps researchers and conference administrators create discussion forums for their papers. It just needs a MySQL backend, a php enabled webserver, and few minutes to set up.

Tiny PHP Forum is a  ~130K PHP simple Forum. Users can create new topics and threads and reply to other threads. Database free, TinyPHPForum uses text files only. Foolproof, easy, quick, tiny. Features include: user accounts, avatars, admin functions, emoticons, skins.....

Mazen's PHP Chat is a completely PHP based Chatsystem. Like other Chatsystems it doesn't use meta-refreshes to pull the chatlines from a MySQL-Server, it does a kind of server-push which continuously streams the Chat-Messages tp the client-browser.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Application, Chat, Chat Application, Chat Script, Discussions, Php Chat

TNT Forum is a Free and Open Source TXT-Based PHP forum, with templates and multi-language support, and many others features.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Discussion Board, Forum, Forum Application

Navboard is a php based web forum using text files to store data instead of using a database, compatible with any server running php 4.0 or higher. It provides you all the features of most major forum software and no installation needed.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Discussion, Discussion Board, Forum, Forum Application, Forum Software

phpNet is a light-weight flexible PHP forum based website software package that uses object-oriented programming and a MySQL database. It's purpose is to act as a fast (and free) alternative to other site management programs which are noticably slow or have everything but the kitchen sink....


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Application, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Forum, Forum Application, Forum Script

PBLang is an international BBS-software based on PHP. It does not require any database but it based on a flatfile system. It provides you many professional features.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Discussion, Discussion Board, Forum Application

PHP Prayer Board is software that collects, organizes, and displays requests for prayer. It is basically a bulletin board with a specific purpose: prayer requests. Users access it through their web browsers. An administrator sets is up on a web server, typically an intranet (or LAN) web server....


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Discussion, Discussion Board, Discussion Board Application

B-Scribbles strives to improve any PHP webpage. The transparent integration is painless to configure and install. Once in place, any visitor will be able to 'scribble'(post) to a board using a simple, non obtrusive interface. Best of all, the software is freely provided under the GPL....


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Discussion, Discussion Board, Posting, Posting Board, Visitors Comment

PXMBoard (PHP XML/XSLT MySQL) is a php based forum software. It supports smarty and/or xslt as template languages and mysql or postgresql as dbms.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Forum, Forum Application, Forum Script

m-phorum is a new small phorum, using PHP with one mysql database backend. Tested on php 4.3, apache 1.3.27 & mysql 3.23.52. It is simple and fast.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Application, Discussion, Discussion Board, Forum Script

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL. Feature List: - 100% C# ASP.NET - Microsoft SQL Server...


Platforms: Windows, ASP.NET,

Keyword: Another, Another Forum, Community, Community Componente, Forum, Forum Components

Agora is a web-based, threaded discussion tool. It is *fast*, very intuitive to use, was beta-tested by more than a hundred people, and is now totaly stable. Agora remembers each user's preferences, and allows unread-only browsing, like a usenet-news system. It offers the ability to manage...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Perl, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Bbs Script, Discussion, Discussion Forum, Threaded, Threaded Discussion Tool, Tool

ScareCrow Message Board  application allows you to run a full featured forum on your website.General Features - User profiles that include: AIM, MSN, Yahoo! and ICQ identifications, locations, interests, homepage. - The option to hide email addresses from view in a profile. - On-server last...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Perl, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Discussion Board, Forum, Forum Script, Message, Message Board

EBB-Echelon Bulletin Board is a new type of forum. Fast, tons of features and easy to use! No more struggling to setup a slow-basic forum! Now with EBB anybody can run their own fast usefull forum to start their own community.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Perl, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Discussion Board, Forum, Forum Script

Slashcode is a database-driven news and message board.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, Perl, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Discussions, Message Board, News, News Board, News Publishing

Tojo is an online collaborative journal/diary system written in PHP, allowing multiple users to add entries to a page, with a new page every day. It is designed for small groups in mind, and thus works differently from a BBS/forum or blog.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Collaborative, Collaborative Journal, Discussion, Discussion Board, Journal, Journal System

forumFR is a php forum, using mysql for topics index and xml for text and posts storage. It seems to run very well, faster than a phpbb forum.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Discussion, Discussion Board, Forum Application

PHP-XML mini notice board is a dynamic BBS system that use XML as the storing format. Also, it provides a web administration interface, HTML tags support in news thread, and independent style of each news thread.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Bbs, Bbs System, Board, Bulletin, Bulletin Board, Discussion Board

Yet Another PHP Bulletin Board (YapBB) allows you to set up a forum on your Web siteFeatures: - A fully featured control panel for easy configuring of YapBB after it has been installed. - Full configurability, server-side. - Many user options using a cookie-based system. - Design your own...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Mac OSX, Linux, PHP, BSD Solaris

Keyword: Board, Discussion, Discussion Board, Forum, Forum Software, Forum System