YapBB

Yet Another PHP Bulletin Board (YapBB) allows you to set up a forum on your Web site

Features:
- A fully featured control panel for easy configuring of YapBB after it has been installed.
- Full configurability, server-side.
- Many user options using a cookie-based system.
- Design your own templates for a completely new look for your installation of YapBB.
- YapBB contains an advanced and speedy in-house designed template engine, PSPCooker.
- Different authentication levels.
- Optionally spread out long topic-lists and topics over multiple pages to save on load times.
- A complete set of emoticons for use in messages.
- Special tags that allows you to mimic HTML functionality ("YBB codes").
- See which people (who specified their UINs in their profiles) are online on ICQ (© Mirabilis.com) and send ICQ messages to those persons.
- See which people are logged in to the board.
- Certain malicious pieces of texts are automatically filtered out.
- Complete control over HTML-tags in various fields. This is to prevent users from deforming the layout of your forum.
- Blocking of clones. The same email address can't be used for more than one account.
- Blocking of spammers: lock out certain free web-based email providers.
- Topics can be shown on the frontpage as announcements.
- Optional GZIP compression of the output, to save on bandwidth.