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PHP Language is the most common and most used programming language on Internet. It is available on almost all platforms, is easy to learn, easy to understand, and customizing or modifying an existing project based on this technology is within the realms of possibility.

However, due to this relative simplicity, non professional (Note: ≠ from free or open source) forum software could easily be a nest of security issues.

Forum User Reviews between and .

Woltlab Burning Board Screenshot
9.3/10 (416 votes)

Woltlab Burning Board

June 1, 2012 08:12
Modern, polished, well designed, norms compliant... More »
MyBB Screenshot
9.2/10 (1856 votes)

MyBB

March 7, 2013 13:57
MyBB is a really good alternative to classic forum software, with a real nice plus of providing a really dynamic and motivated community around it. More »
Viscacha Screenshot
8.8/10 (19 votes)

Viscacha

January 18, 2011 23:07
Viscacha is a really surprising and interesting forum software. More »
UBB.threads Screenshot
8.8/10 (107 votes)

UBB.threads

January 18, 2011 23:03
UBB.threads is a really good forum software: simple to use, simple to install and simple to administrate. More »
FUDForum Screenshot
8.7/10 (119 votes)

FUDForum

August 27, 2012 08:13
FUDForum is a classic and good forum software, which provide many features by default. More »
Esotalk Screenshot
8.5/10 (11 votes)

esoTalk

January 18, 2011 23:52
esoTalk is a really good surprise, because it proves that installing and configuring a forum software are not necessarily time consuming, and the final res... More »

Forum User Reviews between and .

PhpBB 3 Screenshot
8.5/10 (780 votes)

PhpBB 3

April 16, 2013 22:35
PhpBB Developer team has made a great job and it seems they have created something close to the perfect forum software. More »
Simple Machines Screenshot
8.4/10 (232 votes)

Simple Machines 1.1

April 16, 2013 22:56
Simple Machines Forum is one of the best forum software ever tested here, and it really deserves a good score. Several years of intensive development an... More »
Beehive Forum Screenshot
8.3/10 (92 votes)

Beehive Forum

November 14, 2011 10:35
This forum software can easily replace all your web site parts, and can be compared as a (better, of course) PHPNuke solution, without the possibility to d... More »
FluxBB - Homepage
8.3/10 (77 votes)

FluxBB

June 9, 2013 10:35
No doubt about this, FluxBB is clearly a pure PunBB fork. Indeed, it has all advantages and inconveniences of its parent : FluxBB is a really good and s... More »
MesDiscussions.net Screenshot
8.2/10 (74 votes)

MesDiscussions

January 18, 2011 22:36
In one word, MesDiscussions.net is a really powerful software. More »
Vanilla Screenshot
8.2/10 (160 votes)

Vanilla Forums

May 11, 2012 09:49
Vanilla is a way more innovative forum software in many domains when you compare it to traditional forums. More »
XenForo Screenshot
8.1/10 (273 votes)

XenForo

October 23, 2012 12:44
If four words could sum up the feeling we have using XenForo, they would probably be: "XenForo is absolutely outstanding!". More »
Joomla Forum Screenshot
8/10 (13 votes)

Joomla Forum

January 18, 2011 23:52
Joomla is, without any doubt, a really good Content Management System. More »
SocialEngine Screenshot
7.5/10 (20 votes)

SocialEngine

January 8, 2012 23:27
From a global perspective, SocialEngine is an awesome product. It provides a great base, extended with many plugins and features. More »
UltraBB Screenshot
7.5/10 (42 votes)

UltraBB

January 4, 2012 10:21
This descendant of WowBB is clearly more powerful and more secure. More »
FusionBB Screenshot
7.5/10 (11 votes)

FusionBB

April 28, 2012 09:06
FusionBB is a very good forum software, that will successfully fulfill your needs if you look for a very complete community software that supports almost a... More »
Phorum Screenshot
7.3/10 (64 votes)

Phorum

July 10, 2012 08:59
Phorum follows guidelines for what is was developed: Speed and Efficiency. More »
Unclassified NewsBoard Screenshot
7.2/10 (31 votes)

Unclassified NewsBoard

January 18, 2011 22:48
Unclassified Newsboard is clearly a really good alternative to the main known forum softwares. More »
UseBB Screenshot
7.1/10 (16 votes)

UseBB

January 18, 2011 22:54
UseBB is a simple and useful forum software, which could be compared in terms of features to PunBB or FluxBB. This forum software, which respects W3C no... More »
IP.Board Screenshot
7.1/10 (299 votes)

IP.Board

October 10, 2012 07:57
Reviewing a forum software of a such high quality is one of the rare moment when you feel IT problems can all be fixed in a simple manner. More »
Wikid Forum Screenshot
7.1/10 (13 votes)

Wikid Forum

January 19, 2011 00:00
WikidForum is a really really young project, and for the time being, one has to admit it misses support from a base community. However, this project was... More »
XennoBB Screenshot
6.8/10 (60 votes)

XennoBB

April 16, 2013 22:58
XennoBB is a young project (begun in 2005) that already provides many features that other bulletin boards have. More »
MyProBB Screenshot
6.8/10 (5 votes)

MyProBB

April 16, 2013 22:57
MyProBB is a classic forum software. It would be hard to find another adjective that would classify it as well as classic. It's good but too much classic. More »
PunBB Screenshot
6.8/10 (100 votes)

PunBB

April 2, 2013 09:33
PunBB is a really good and simple forum software. More »
PhpBB Screenshot
6.5/10 (88 votes)

PhpBB 2

April 16, 2013 22:34
Very good and powerful forum. More »

Forum User Reviews between and .

Advanced Electron Forum Screenshot
6.3/10 (36 votes)

Advanced Electron Forum

October 16, 2012 08:24
AEF is a really good forum software, and particularly if you already know well what a forum software does and what could be configured. More »
Drupal Forum Screenshot
6.3/10 (67 votes)

Drupal Forum

September 9, 2011 22:20
The forum software available in Drupal is clearly powerful and well integrated. More »
MiniBB Screenshot
5.8/10 (43 votes)

MiniBB

August 11, 2011 21:27
MiniBB is a good forum software for people that loves customizing and installing only the features they would like to integrate. More »
IceBB Screenshot
5.6/10 (339 votes)

IceBB

May 27, 2013 08:49
IceBB is a good forum software, has many qualities and is really simple to use. More »
SEO-Board Screenshot
5.5/10 (16 votes)

SEO-Board

January 18, 2011 22:54
SEO-Board is really too simple in our opinion. More »
bbPress Screenshot
5.5/10 (51 votes)

bbPress

September 26, 2011 09:31
The bbPress follows the way of softwares which are looking for a simple core of thoughtful features that are all well implemented. More »
Extreme Message Board Screenshot
5.4/10 (119 votes)

Extreme Message Board

February 10, 2012 14:58
Extreme Message Board is good forum, but some users accustomed to vBulletin or IP.Board might be a little bit disappointed by this forum, which is good for... More »
vBulletin Screenshot
5.2/10 (112 votes)

vBulletin 3.8

April 16, 2013 22:31
It's clear, vBulletin is the most used forum software on Internet, and there are tons of reasons for this. More »

Forum User Reviews between and .

vBulletin 4 Screenshot
4.2/10 (441 votes)

vBulletin 4

May 22, 2012 12:39
vBulletin is definitely an amazing piece of software. More »
WowBB Screenshot
4.1/10 (72 votes)

WowBB

January 11, 2012 15:49
As we can see below, WowBB, even using a proprietary model (which is rare in forum software world), provides many unique features that will probably make y... More »
Quicksilver Forums Screenshot
4/10 (11 votes)

Quicksilver Forums

January 18, 2011 22:51
Quicksilver Forums is a good and simple forum software, but unfortunately, it does not benefit of a good advertisement. This review will maybe change co... More »
Simple Machines 2 Screenshot
4/10 (1165 votes)

Simple Machines 2

June 9, 2013 10:42
Simple Machines Forum team is one of the rare developers team that releases a version of their product only when everything is done. More »
Fruit Show Screenshot
3.2/10 (12 votes)

Fruit Show

April 16, 2013 22:57
Fruit Show could be used for only one reason on your website: replace a chat or a mailing list. More »
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