Building Online Communities with PhpBB 2 : A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Online Discussion Forums with phpBB, the Leading Free Open Source PHP/MySQL-based Bulletin Board

phpBB is a free, open source Internet community application, with outstanding discussion forums and membership management. Written in the PHP scripting language, and making use of the popular MySQL database, phpBB is a standard among web hosting companies throughout the world, and is one of the most widely-used bulletin board packages in the world. phpBB short-circuits the need for you to be a web development master in order to create and manage massive online communities.