Editing PhpBB (section)

{{Short description|Free and open-source Internet forum package written in PHP}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}
{{lowercase title|title=phpBB}}
{{Infobox software
| name = phpBB
| logo = phpBB logo cosmic.svg
| screenshot = PhpBB 3.2 Index page.png
| caption = A default installation of phpBB 3.2
| developer = phpBB Limited
| released = December 16, 2000
| programming language = [[PHP]]
| operating system = 
| platform = 
| language count = 54
| language footnote = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phpbb.com/languages/ |title=phpBB3 translation pack downloads |publisher=Phpbb.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref>
| language = American English, Arabic, Argentinian Spanish, Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Chinese, Mexican Spanish, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
| genre = [[Internet forum]]
| size = 7.54 MB (compressed)
| license = [[GNU General Public License version 2]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.phpbb.com}}
}}

'''phpBB''' is an [[Internet forum]] package written in the [[PHP]] [[scripting language]]. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of ''PHP Bulletin Board''. Available under the [[GNU General Public License]], phpBB is [[Free and open-source software|free and open-source]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.phpbb.com/about/ | title = About phpBB | access-date = 2010-08-22 }}</ref>

Features of phpBB include support for multiple [[database]] engines ([[MariaDB]], [[Microsoft SQL Server]], [[MySQL]], [[PostgreSQL]], [[SQLite]], [[Oracle Database]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://download.phpbb.com/pub/documentation/3.3/proteus_documentation.pdf|title=phpBB 3.3 Proteus Documentation|website=phpbb.com|access-date=10 March 2024}}</ref>  flat message structure (as opposed to threaded), hierarchical subforums, topic split/merge/lock, user groups, multiple attachments per post, full-text search, plugins and various notification options (e-mail, [[Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol|Jabber]] instant messaging, ATOM feeds).<ref>{{cite web|title=phpBB Features|url=http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/?from=submenu|access-date=2011-06-05}}</ref>