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Welcome to the phpBB Modifications Database (MODDB). Here, you may find many MODs (short for “modifications”) for both phpBB2 and phpBB3. All MODs in our database have been validated against the applicable coding guidelines, as well as for a certain level of security.

Here we will see how to include the Smart Feed to our Forum by downloading the SmartFeed phpBB MOD from the below link,

SmartFeed phpMOD

http://www.phpbb.com/search/?q=smartfeed

The smartfeed is depends on the version of phpBB are you installing, so download the smartfeed MOD which is compatible to the your current phpBB version.

The below screen will show you the smart feed.zip for phpBB3,

SmartFeed 1.21

After unzipping the zipped SmartFeed  MOD , find the XML file of installation instructions which lists on the unzipped SmartFeed Folder and run the XML in any browser and you will see the instruction like below screen :

STEP1

STEP - 2

STEP - 3

STEP - 4

STEP - 5

STEP - 6

phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name “phpBB” is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free software.

HistoryphpBB was started by James Atkinson as a simple UBB-like forum for his own website on June 17, 2000. Nathan Codding and John Abela joined the development team after phpBB’s CVS repository was moved to SourceForge.net, and work on 1.0.0 began. A fully functional, pre-release version of phpBB was made available in July.

phpBB3 is the current stable version of phpBB. Following over three years of development and an eighteen-month beta/release candidate stage, it went gold on December 13, 2007.

Some of phpBB3′s major features include:
 
* Modular design for the Admin Control Panel, Moderator Control Panel,  
    and User Control Panel.
* Support for multiple database management systems, including MySQL, *
* Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, OpenLink
* Virtuoso, and other ODBC-accessible DBMS
* Support for unlimited levels of subforums
* Ability to create custom-defined BBCode
* Ability to create custom profile fields
* Permissions system

More info on phpBB can get from the below link,

phpBB

http://www.phpbb.com/

The latest updated version og PHPBB can download from the below links,

Download

 http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/?sid=0f6853d8fd8df13fe4588e7751ee7c3c

The FREE PHPBB Templates collection on various customization can download from the below site,

phpBB Templates

http://www.themesbase.com/?category=phpBB&page=1