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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
- Create an account on phpBB.com
- Create a ticket (unless there already is one)
- Read our Coding guidelines and Git Contribution Guidelines
- 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 |  |