phpBB Forum Software

MOD requests are common with each version of phpBB. Every user wants something different to make their board unique. The problem, however, is that there are more users than MOD Authors. However, with an understanding of PHP and phpBB, you can create your own! I started out just like everyone else; I knew nothing about PHP [...]

I touched on this in an article at my own site last month, but it is worth mentioning here as well. This blog currently covers a wide range of topics relating to how to run your forum (How many forums should I create?, How Many Moderators Do You Really Need?, etc), to technical aspects about phpBB [...]

Because phpBB is a very large product, it needs to be supported. People who have a problem/question and they come here to find an answer or solution. Have you ever looked at the support forums? If so, you might have seen that there are many many topics a day and just a few people answering [...]

Hi,The Modifications Team is pleased to once again announce a release candidate for UMIL. The second RC features a number of bug fixes and makes use of some features of the upcoming phpBB release. We hope to get more feedback on this tool.As always ... [More] , more information and downloads can be found on the UMIL page. Please submit any bugs you find to the MOD Team Tools bugtracker.The MOD Team [Less]

I touched briefly on this in the very first blog post here at phpBB.com. If you’ve just set up phpBB, how many forums should you create? As I said in that blog post, the key is to start small and increase the number of forums you have over time. There is nothing worse than going to [...]

No! I’m not talking about military bases or U.S. conspiracy theories, but rather phpBB’s very own Area51 - http://area51.phpbb.com Area51 is phpBB’s official testing ground, and as stated on the site it is the home of “bleeding edge developmental code”. The site was established in 2001 - the brainchild of psoTFX, the former leader of the [...]

The license on the wiki has been changed to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. Authors who have text within the wiki and do not agree to this new license should contact any member of the Management Team. From this point ... [More] forward anyone who wishes to make changes to the wiki agrees to release their work under this new license. [Less]

Despite being among the easiest of vulnerabilities to understand, injection vulnerabilities are also among the most common. For most users, they will simply manifest themselves as an error when select characters are used, but a sufficiently adept ... [More] user may be able to take that error and exploit it to their advantage. To prevent this from happening, [...] [Less]

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen As you probably know, we were attacked for unknown reasons by an individual using an exploit against our PHPList installation within hours of the exploit being publicly posted on a well-known exploit site. ... [More] Facilitated by mistakes and - in retrospect mistaken - performance considerations in our server setup, the attacker was able to steal all email addresses from our mailing list, as well as the password hashes from this board's database. In a reckless act of showmanship, he later posted all this information on a blog. We urge all our community members to change their passwords as soon as possible. If you have used the same password on any other site, then we strongly recommend changing it there as well. The public disclosure of private data is an unspeakable attack against all of our users. We cannot comprehend the attacker's motives. The phpBB teams are entirely composed of volunteers working on an honour basis to provide the web with a scalable, secure and user-friendly free forum software. We are not, however, so easily cowed. More so than ever, we are here to create communities with and for our users.We are greatly pleased to once more provide support in the environment we all love so much. In the past ten days, countless hours have been spent by team members and helpers to restore and sanitise the website and the database. We especially want to thank OSUOSL for providing us with a temporary server for the remainder of the investigation. We welcome everyone to show our community's appreciation by sending them a donation.We are deeply sorry about the unavailability of the collected resources of phpbb.com and the damage caused. We hope that the improvised support on area51 was enough to keep you all afloat. Let's, once more, make this community the lively place of support, development and discussion it has been for so many years.The phpBB teams [Less]

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen As you probably know, we were attacked for unknown reasons by an individual using an exploit against our PHPList installation within hours of the exploit being publicly posted on a well-known exploit site. ... [More] Facilitated by mistakes and - in retrospect mistaken - performance considerations in our server setup, the attacker was able to steal all email addresses from our mailing list, as well as the password hashes from this board's database. In a reckless act of showmanship, he later posted all this information on a blog. We urge all our community members to change their passwords as soon as possible. If you have used the same password on any other site, then we strongly recommend changing it there as well. The public disclosure of private data is an unspeakable attack against all of our users. We cannot comprehend the attacker's motives. The phpBB teams are entirely composed of volunteers working on an honour basis to provide the web with a scalable, secure and user-friendly free forum software. We are not, however, so easily cowed. More so than ever, we are here to create communities with and for our users.We are greatly pleased to once more provide support in the environment we all love so much. In the past ten days, countless hours have been spent by team members and helpers to restore and sanitise the website and the database. We especially want to thank OSUOSL for providing us with a temporary server for the remainder of the investigation. We welcome everyone to show our community's appreciation by sending them a donation.We are deeply sorry about the unavailability of the collected resources of phpbb.com and the damage caused. We hope that the improvised support on area51 was enough to keep you all afloat. Let's, once more, make this community the lively place of support, development and discussion it has been for so many years.Please note that the search is currently unavailable. It will be enabled in the following days.The phpBB TeamsYou can discuss this topic here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1436625 [Less]