IceBB Review

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Install: PositivePositive (Easy) — Admin: PositivePositive (Easy)
Use: PositivePositive (Easy) — Themes: Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullFullFullHalfNone — Users : FullFullHalfNoneNone (Rate it)
— Fri, 2007-03-23 00:52 — lastnico

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Installation : PositivePositive (Easy)
Administration : PositivePositive (Easy)
Forum Use : PositivePositive (Easy)
Themes : Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullFullFullHalfNone
Users : FullFullHalfNoneNone (Rate it)
Released under : GPL License
Current version : 1.0-rc5 (December 22, 2006).
Demonstration : IceBB Demo
From IceBB website : IceBB is a powerful, fast, free, and open-source forum solution powered by the free PHP and MySQL. IceBB scales well, no matter how many users or posts, due to its clean and efficient code. It is also fully customizable, with full skin and language support, plus a powerful admin control center. IceBB also comes with a great community, willing to help you with any problems you encounter, in English, Spanish,or French. Some of IceBB's features include: ul>
  • RSS feeds
  • Favorite topics and forums
  • Optional calendar
  • Optional portal
  • Private messages
  • Search
  • Unlimited subforums
  • Redirect forums
  • Powerful admin control center
  • Inline moderation
  • Multi-quote
  • Full localization support (language system, full Unicode support)
  • Full feature list
    • Official web site : http://www.icebb.net
    Download Link : Download this forum software here : IceBB.

    Server Architecture

    Features Details
    Operating Systems Details
    Systems supporting this software.
    • Linux
    • Windows Server 2003
    • Windows XP
    Web Server Details
    Web Servers control the communication between the forum and the users.
    • Apache 1.3
    • Apache 2.0/2.2
    • Microsoft IIS
    Languages Details
    Main development language.
    • PHP 4
    • PHP 5
    Databases Details
    Applications which store forum datas.
    • MySQL
    IceBB is another classical LAMP alternative to PhpBB. The goal of the IceBB, according to its authors, was to create a free alternative to expensive Invision Power Board and vBulletin forum software.

    Technical Features

    Technical Features Details
    CMS / Blog softwares integration Details
    Web publishing tools which can be integrated with this software.
    		None
    User base integration Details
    This feature is useful when you would like to integrate your forum with an existing solution.
    		None
    Template Engine Details
    With known template engines, it is generally easier to customize forum and create new themes.
    		Custom
    Webservices / XML-RPC management Details
    Generally allow remote control from other softwares than browsers (program, etc...)
    		No
    IceBB has not a lot of integration features currently. Authors seems to focus their time to fix bugs and release the 1.0 version.