Simple Machines Forum
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is an open source Internet
forum (BBS) application which lets you set up an online
community very quickly. The application is written in PHP and uses a
SQL database backend, from version 2.0 MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite are
supported.
It is designed to provide you with all the features you need
from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the
resources of the server.
SMF features a powerful Package Manager, allowing you to
quickly apply any of the hundreds of modifications that are available.
SMF 2.0.3
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Price
Free to download
Size
1.6MB
License
BSD License
Developer
The SMF Team
Website
www.simplemachines.org
System Requirements
PHP 4.1.0 or higher
MySQL 4.0.18 or higher, PostgreSQL 8.0 or higher, OR SQLite 1.x - 2.x
Optional:
Aspell 0.50 or higher
Apache 2.0.x or higher
GD Graphics Library 2.0 or higher
Support
Sites:
Manual,
FAQ,
Forums
Selected
Reviews:
Dr
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Features include:
- Comprehensive template system
- Advanced permission and user management
- Supports multiple languages at once
- Open and well-documented source code
- Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from your
last visit
- Designed for optimal performance and scalability
- Multi-media output (XHTML, XML, RSS, WAP)
- Multi-language support from a large community
- Package manager that automatically installs or uninstalls
mods (also known as hacks)
- Search the entire forum, a category/board or within a
topic
- Search within your personal messages
- Security features
- SMF is available in over 47 languages, including
Albanian, Arabic,
Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, English British, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German,
Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
Kurdish, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish,
Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese
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