PunBB Discussion Board

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards. PunBB has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages.

Current Features (1.2)

  • Very fast loading.
  • Light on web server resources.
  • Not cluttered with unneeded features.
  • Simple layout and design.
  • Easy to administrate and moderate.
  • Doesn't output huge, non-valid, HTML pages.
  • Has source code you can read and understand.

Download the latest stable version.

Planned Enhancements (1.3-dev)

  • New markup and CSS.
  • Unicode (UTF-8) support.
  • Improved accessibility for both Public and Administration pages.
  • Administration interface gets language file support.
  • Search engine optimized "Fancy URLs" via mod rewrite.
  • Proper extension support - Extend the functionality without touching a line of PunBB's PHP code.
  • New topic read marking system.
  • Improved syndication - Feeds extended to include individual topics. Also feeds in the form of Atom and XML format.
  • Support for Microformats - hCard and MicroID.
  • Multiple moderator groups.
  • Board search improved with MySQL Full-Text Search.
  • Per-style templates - It will be possible to have one set of templates per style.

The timeline details the latest code changes.

PunBB Team

The SVN repository contains the latest development version.