XMB (forum)

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This article is about the XMB message board system. For the Sony GUI system, see Cross Media Bar.

XMB
Developed by	The XMB Group
Latest release	1.9.8 SP2
OS	PHP
Genre	Forum software
License	GPL
Website	www.xmbforum.com

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.^[1]

Some important features:

Support for many languages
Buddy list
u2u messaging system
Thread subscriptions
Subforums

1 Modifications
2 Derivates
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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 Hacks
XMB Services
XMB Garage

[edit] Derivates

The Crossday Discuz! Board is a derivate of XMB, which is mostly popular in China. 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 is still in beta stages of development.