MercuryBoard is a bulletin board script written in Object-Oriented PHP. It utilizes a MySQL database. MercuryBoard aims to be the fastest, leanest, fully featured bulletin board system.

We are a light-weight flexible PHP forum package that uses object-oriented programming and the MySQL database. It's purpose is to act as a fast (and free) alternative to other forum packages which are noticably slow or have everything but the kitchen sink.<br> -Fast and secure with execution times averaging 0.2* seconds.<br> -Automated installer script for easy set up.<br> -Unlimited categories and forums, all with configurable permissions.<br> -Full Administrator Control Panel for managing the forum and its users.<br> -Full support for output "skinning".<br> -Default image set looks clean on all background colors (no white edges).<br> -Board index collapses to forum view when there in only one forum, meaning less overhead.<br> <small>* Execution time was calculated on a 400Mhz Pentium 2 box with 320mb SDRAM under Windows NT 5.0</small>

It's fast, simple and multilanguage message board. Easy too install. Based on TXT files (NON SQL) and have search engine, categories and category filtres. Full administration for topics, answers, categories, censure words, ban list and backup system.

With years of experiance in creating high quality web applications, our developers strive to bring you this new revolution in message board software. Our product is head to head with its competition, striving on its speed, efficency and overall ease of use. Our product is written in PHP and uses Mysql as the standard backend. Other database types can be purchased.

A free discussion board system with such features as the ability to manage template (multi template), smileys, members, moderators. It uses a database MySQL and runs with PHP 4.2.0 (minimum).

TheWebForum is a free PHP/MySQL message board system. Posts and threads are sorted into multiple forums in multiple categories. Every day there are more updates to the software, and all bug reports are dealt with as soon as possible.

Zorum is an easy to install Web-based forum, message board, or bulletin board. It requires a MySQL database,and the PHP4 script module. Features include: web based easy install, embedded administration, personalization, moderators, password reminder, post blocking rules, bb code, mark unread messages, subscriptions, attachments, ratings, polls, smilies, word censoring, search, statistics and more.

A simple web-forum script written in PHP. Requires PHP > 4.1 and a MySQL database. Features: * Classical thread view (message tree) as well as messagebord view to display the messages * Categories can be set up * Users can be registered * E-mail notification, when answered on one's posting * search function * Support for BB-code and smilies * Images uploadable * Spam-safe entering of e-mail addresses * Layout easily customizable by CSS-, header- and footer-file. * RSS-feed * Already available languages: English, German, Dutch

EFZ BBS : Easy and Simple Forum management system was built to provide a forum which was small and efficient and was easy to integrate it uses the standard forum style as of PHP BB but gets the work done under 100 K of code very easy to integrate and administer . Everything categories comments editing and layout can be controlled from a centralized control panel . Uses no data base right now works off CSV files .

Easy to install and run. Design of the board page is fully editable, you may also translate it to your language. Features: Easy installation; Design is fully adjustable; Password protected admin area; You can delete any message; You can select US or European time format; Ability to ban some words; Configuration by a web form.

FunkBoard is a free, full-featured, multi-thread, highly customisable, open-source bulletin board messaging system. Unlimited topics and messages, Private topics, private mail, avatars (both ready made and user uploadable), email when your message gets a reply, bad language filter and lots more features. It uses the powerful PHP language and either MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

UnknownForums is an advanced Bulletin Board, with many popular and even some origional functions. UnknownForums is fully customizable through a secure web-based control center with many features.

Tuvai Bulletin board is a growing Bulletin board, the first version has just been released but the project is still very active. While making the TBB, I mostly payed attention to user friendlyness and usage. The data usage is minimal and there is not more data used than necesary, which makes it fast. :) Improved versions coming up soon enough! Version 1.2 available! Check our website for more information about new additions, and for the upgrade patch.

RedKernel V.S. (Very Secure) Forum is a file based forum. It is very secure, very powerful and optimized for referencing. It write static Html pages so it do not need a powerful server and can handle a lot of traffic even on a slow server.

Netzbrett is a Web board / forum system written in PHP3/4 that can use flat text files, mysql or the PHP 4 db object (Interbase, MSQL, MSSQL, mySQL, Oracle 8, ODBC, PostgresSQL, Storage, Sybase) for data handling. The forum includes a simple Admin mode, which enables modifying and deletion of entries by the admin. It also includes a print view. The program is avaliable in English, German, Italian, Chinese (Taiwan) and many other languages. You can show the dates as C.A., B.E or Thai.

edgeBoard is a quick, full featured, highly customizable flatfile bb. Unlike other flatfile boards, edgeBoard is faster and more efficient. All it requires is PHP and a webserver. edgeBoard incorperates a admincp and IAI (Integrated Admin Interface). With the introduction of Genesis many features have been added and is the most stable of all EdgeBoard releases to date.

If there are defined only one category then forum shows automatically postings from this category, else if there are more categories then shows categories list, then postings list etc. There are users-system: user, moderator and admin, good admin-interface (even backup-system [tar/gzip]), multilingual etc..

CoolForum is a PHP/MySQL-driven discussion board program. It includes Web admin, moderation, templates, and more.

The alienhelpdesk BB is a small BB that doesn't have half the functions the big BB's out there have. It's kept simple/manageable and does the job. Members can edit/delete their own messages. You can edit/delete all & manage the BB from the administrator's section. No mysql support needed. No css forms used. It's only PHP and html. New in evolution 2: adds more functionality, security, and tracking features.

VenomBoard is a Full-featured web-discussion forum written entirely in php and html. Current version features: No graphics to load, making the load times for messages fast, Full administrative functionality (including specifying the amount of HTML allowed in posts, host blocking), and ability to show hostname/IP of posters. This particular forum uses MySQL as it's database backend, although the software could easily be adapted to work with other databases.