phpBB is a free open-source bulletin board written in PHP.

🧑🏻‍🤝🏻🧑🏽 Community

Get your copy of phpBB, find support and lots more on phpBB.com. Discuss the development on area51.

👨‍💻 Contribute

1. Create an account on phpBB.com
2. Create a ticket (unless there already is one)
3. Read our Coding guidelines and Git Contribution Guidelines
4. Send us a pull request

🏗️ Setting up a development build of phpBB

To run an installation from the repo (and not from a pre-built package) on a local server, run the following commands:

• Fork phpbb/phpbb to your GitHub account, then create a local clone of it:

  git clone https://github.com/your_github_name/phpbb.git
  

• Install phpBB’s dependencies (from the root of your phpbb repo):

  cd phpBB
  php ../composer.phar install
  

Alternatively, you can read:

• Our Vagrant documentation to find out how to use Vagrant to develop and contribute to phpBB.
• Our GitHub Codespaces documentation to learn about phpBB’s cloud-based development environment.

📓 Documentation

phpBB’s Development Documentation contains all the information you’ll need to learn about developing for phpBB’s core, extensions and automated testing.

🔬 Automated Testing

We have unit and functional tests in order to prevent regressions. You can view the bamboo continuous integration here or check our GitHub Actions below:

Branch	Description	GitHub Actions
master	Latest development version
3.3.x	Development of version 3.3.x

📜 License

GNU General Public License v2