Invision Power Board (IPB)

Invision Power Board (abbreviated IPB, IP.Board or IP Board) is an Internet forum software is written in PHP and primarily uses MySQL as a database management system, although support for other database engines is available.

While Invision Power Board is a commercially sold product, there is a large modding community and many of these modifications are free. In addition, many groups offer the download or design of free and paid skins.

Board Features:

• Board Statistics:
• Active members and guests within the last x minutes
• Today's Birthdays
• Board Statistics (Member and post information)
• Delete cookies set by this board
• Mark all posts as read

Forums:

• Quick jump
• Quick search
• Easy navigation
• Topic icon legend
• Topic Title, Topic Starter, Replies, Views, Last Action fields
• Mark this forum as read
• Advanced post sorting

Posting:

• Poll posting
• Topic title and description fields
• Complete control over formatting:
• Bold
• Italic
• Underline
• Font
• Size
• Color
• Insert hyperlink
• Insert / upload image
• Insert email address
• Insert quote
• Insert code
• Insert HTML style list
• Guided and Normal modes
• Close all tags option
• Insert emoticons
• Post icons

AdminCP Home:

• Invite your Friends
• Promote your Forum
• Account Info
• Terms of Use
• System Settings
• General Configuration
• Security & Privacy
• Topics, Posts & Polls
• User Profiles
• Date & Time Formats
• PM Set up
• Board on/off
• Calendar/Birthday
• Board Guidelines
• Warning Set-up
• IPDynamic Lite Set-up