Features:

TalkThis uses phpBB open source technology, the following information was taken directly from the phpBB website.

Database Server Support

phpBB uses a database abstraction layer to enable seamless support of several database servers:

• MySQL 3.2x,
• PostgreSQL 7.x,
• Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000
• Microsoft Access (via ODBC)

• Designed with security as a priority
• Powerful and extensive authorization system
• Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
• Support for both cookie and URI–based sessions

• Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups
• Powerful search facility

• Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
• Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
• Polls can be simply added to posts
• Email notification of replies to your topics
• Powerful topic subscription capability
• Original emoticons to portray emotions

• Powerful forum, user and group permission management
• Control forum access to specified user groups
• Control all aspects of the posting experience
• Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options

• Unlimited members
• Personal profile creation
• Post counting and administrator–definable ranks for users
• Email–like private messaging system
• Supports local, remote and up loadable avatars

• Topic editing
• Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
• Topic splitting
• Option of auto–pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per–forum basis

• General configuration
• Forum & category setup
• Easy database backup and restore
• Disallowed usernames
• User authorization
• Word censoring
• Complete member management
• Emoticon setup
• Optional account verification
• Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
• IP tracking of posts and posters
• Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator

• Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
• Templates separated from the PHP code so that new layouts can easily be created or integrated with your current site design
• Complete control of fonts and colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)
• Active community creating add–ons and specialized modifications
• Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C