Features:

The following details were taken directly from the ForumsPlace website.

ForumsPlace Forum Features:

• Unlimited forums and categories
• Unlimited members
• Unlimited messages
• No bandwidth limits
• Fully configurable, categorize your forums into categories.
• Over 50 languages pre–installed. (not all styles are language–aware)
• Forums can be made restricted to select groups of users.
• Personalized URL for your forum. (i.e. http://myforum.forumsplace.com)
• Customize your board with over 300 styles to choose from.
• Upload a custom logo for your forum header.
• Create and organize your members by user group.
• Focus on running your board without worrying about the technical details!
• Powerful search facility – find posts and threads quickly!
• Private Messaging (PM) system allows members to communicate without using e–mail.
• Members can create personal profiles.
• Members can post polls in messages.
• Members can add images in their posts with our included image hosting!

Useful and Exciting Pre–Installed Mods:

Super Quick Reply

Allow your forum members to respond to messages without clicking on the reply button. Three levels of quick reply are available; basic, enhanced, and off. Admins can choose to disable the Quick Reply on their forum altogether.

Arcade with Over 200 Games!

Give your users something fun to do! Every free phpBB forum comes with a fully–configured arcade with over 200 categorized flash games ready to play. As an admin, you can set arcade permissions, configure the games, reset high scores, or disable the arcade completely.

Calendar Lite

Adds a full–featured events calendar to your forum. With the user–level permissions you can decide who can post events, who can read them, and who can review them.

Enhanced Wireless Access (WAP) Support

Access your forum from your mobile phone with the ability to navigate your forum, read, post, send and receive PM’s, see who’s online, and more.

Automatic Language Detection for Guests

Makes your forum more open to new members. Automatically detects the language that unregistered visitors are using based on their browser preference.

Custom Rank Images

Assign special “rank” images based on number of posts. These images can be hosted at any free image hosting provider such as ThePixPlace.

Admin Userlist

Displays a list of all of your members for easy administration.

Admin User Search

Search for members by keyword, user group, name, e–mail address, rank, number of posts, and more.

Admin Forum Permission List

Displays a list of all of your forums and permissions in a nice summarized list.

Global Announcement Lite

Allows you to post important information such as rules and upcoming events that will appear on all forums by simply posting one message.

Auto–Lock Topics by Date

Keep your members from bumping old, outdated threads by automatically locking them after xx days without any new posts.

Appoint Junior Admins

Allows you to appoint administrators with limited administrative powers to help manage your forum. Perfect for larger forums.

Log Admin/Moderator Actions

Logs all locking, unlocking, moving, deleting, editing, and splitting of posts and topics done by other appointed Administrators and Moderators.

Force Email Update

Force a user to update their e–mail address before being able to post or check their PM’s.Admin Add Users

Create user accounts from the Admin Panel. Great for setting up accounts for people having difficulty registering!

Smilie Display Order

Arrange your smilies the way you want them! Change the order in which smilies are displayed quickly and easily.

Stop Post Count From Increasing

Don’t count posts added or deleted in selected forums against the users post count.

E–Mail Quick Search

Quickly locate a user by e–mail address with just a mouse click.

List Admins & Moderators

Show all of your boards Administrators, Junior Administrators, and Moderators in one list.

Topic Shadow Manager

Displays all topics that were moved with a shadow (redirect). Delete the shadow topics individually or over a range of dates without deleting the original post.

List E–Mail Addresses

Displays a simple list of usernames and e–mail addresses. Great for building a mailing list from your boards members.

Close Topic with Post

Allows Administrators and Moderators to close a topic by making a post containing a configurable command such as ~close~.

Resync User Post Counts

Updates user post counts to ensure accuracy. This is useful should you decide prevent posts in a particular forum from counting towards the post user post counts after the forum has been established.

PM Pop–up Blocker Fix

Allows members with popup blockers to receive new Private Message (PM) notifications. Uses a java script dialog box instead of opening a new window.

No Flood Limit For Admins & Mods

Eliminates the 30 second flood control delay for Administrators and Moderators between making posts, or making a post then editing it.

Slide Menu by phpMiX

Makes all of the options in the Administration Menu collapsible using DHTML. This allows for easier administration of your forum by keeping only the desired menu options visible.