PhpBB2 was the predecessor of the present-day phpBB3. After a year of development and extensive testing, phpBB 2.0.0, dubbed the 'Super Furry' version, was released on April 4, 2002, three days later than intended. Doug Kelly joined the team shortly afterward.

In February 2001, phpBB 2.0.x began development entirely from scratch the developer's ambitions for phpBB had outgrown the original codebase. A fully functional, pre-release version of phpBB was made available in July. Nathan Codding and John Abela joined the development team after phpBB's CVS repository was moved to, and work on version 1.0.0 began. PhpBB was founded by James Atkinson as a simple UBB-like forum for his own website on June 17, 2000. įeatures of phpBB include support for multiple database engines ( MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle Database), 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, Jabber instant messaging, ATOM feeds).

Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free and open-source.

The name 'phpBB' is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. PhpBB is an Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language.

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