Developed with simplicity and usability in mind, UseBB is ideal for small to medium sized websites which need a clear and efficient forum package.

UseBB is easy to install, use and modify, so it can fit any web project and design requirements.

UseBB 1.x is for PHP 4.x, while UseBB 2.x is for PHP 5.x.

Here are some key features of "UseBB":

Categories and Forums:
· Virtually unlimited number of categories containing an unlimited number of forums
· Per forum level-based authorization settings: viewing, reading, posting new topics, posting replies, etc.

Posting:
· An unlimited or maximum number of replies per topic can be set per forum
· Supports the use of BBCode and smilies in posts
· Full HTML posting possibilities (by default admin only)
· Posting flood protection
· Enable/disable post count increasing per forum

Member Features:
· Virtually unlimited number of members possible
· Each member has his/her own personal profile page with a number of standard fields
· Separated displayed name
· Supports remote avatars
· Distinct contact forms for sending personal e-mail messages
· Global member list with username searching and sorting
· Online members/guests list, with current locations and user level filter

Moderation Features:
· Moderators can be set per forum
· Can move/close/reopen/delete topics
· Can edit/delete posts
· Can manage sticky topics
· Supports the staff hierarchy (moderators cannot edit administrator's posts)

Administration Interface:
· Set various configuration options
· Create/edit/delete categories and forums
· Prune forums (topics) and members
· Send mass e-mails
· Set up bad word censors
· Create/edit/delete member accounts
· Ban accounts and by member name, e-mail address or IP address
· ACP modules provide easy extension of the ACP and much more...

Access Control:
· Four fixed levels: guests, members, moderators and administrators
· Level based access to individual forums
· Level based access to active topics, member/staff/online list, search engine, etc.
· Disable guest access to entire forum, member profiles and/or contact information
· E-mail or admin based user activation
· Possibility to disable user registrations by guests

Security Features:
· Stop Forum Spam API integration
· DNSBL lookup and banning of IP addresses, with support for multiple servers (e.g. spammer databases)
· "Potential spammer" status hinders/avoids new users posting spam in profiles or topics
· Random math or custom anti-spam questions for unregistered post or registration attempts
· Quick deletion of spam accounts: deletes all posts and blocks e-mail address/domain and IP address
· DNS based e-mail address verification (check MX records on the domain – in addition to user activation via e-mail)
· Registration logging, logs detailed user info in a log file upon registering
· Hide never activated accounts from the member list, statistics, etc.
· Access to Admin Control Panel requires separate password verification and has manual and automatic logout

Various Features:
· Full-text cross-forum search engine with sorting
· Topic subscriptions via e-mail and on-line overview
· Active topics listing, including (admin defined) forum filter and last reply age cutoff
· Global (active topics), forum and topic RSS 2.0 feeds
· Cleaner (friendly) .html URL's
· Single forum modus for boards with only one forum (disables forum index and shows global statistics box on forum)
· Built-in frequently asked questions

Coding & Technical:
· Separated output templates from PHP code
· Default template uses standards compliant XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS
· Supports application/xhtml+xml content-type for XHTML aware browsers
· Supports user interface translations (English and Dutch available by default)
· Support for most ISO and other character sets (but no support for multibyte encodings such as Unicode, UTF)
· Supports Gzip output compression
· Implementation of Google's rel="nofollow" for BBCode
· Support for HTTP only cookies
· Form and URL token system to protect against CSRF
· Developed with PHP's E_ALL error reporting level
· PHP notices hidden to users, but can still be logged
· Limited size on server (± 1 MB)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A general improvement and maintenance release for the UseBB 1 light PHP 4 and MySQL forum package.