XMB (forum)
This article is about the XMB message board system.For the Sony GUI system, see XrossMediaBar.
XMB is short for eXtreme Message Board and is an open source forum system written in the PHP 4 scripting language and using the database management system MySQL to store dynamic content. It is being distributed under the GNU General Public License. Out-of-the-box, the forum is quite simple compared to its commercial competitors, but a substantial amount of modifications exist to add new features.
Some important features:
Support for many languagesBuddy listu2u messaging systemThread subscriptionsSubforums
Modifications
A substantial amount of modifications or hacks exist for XMB. Most of these are made by administrators of other XMB boards. The XMB forum software can be considered quite easy to modify compared to some of the other forums.
Currently, the main sources for modifications are:
XMB Forum
XMB Services
XMB Garage
Derivatives
The Crossday Discuz! Board is a derivative of XMB, which is mostly popular in China and heavily rewritten with new code.
MyBulletinBoard (MyBB) is another forum software created by some of the original developers of XMB, but based on new code.
Another board software derived from XMB is UltimaBB, which has now been discontinued and TPB (TPB) (Techz Power Board) which is still in development.