Free forum script made in PHP

samforum

I have been working on this forum for a while, thought of adding couple premium features and sell it but due to lack of time I may or may not be able to finish it - so here, I am going to release what has been done, for free. Forum has been made with general security in mind, all queries in uses PDO and the best is that I have written all the code in Object Oriented style which will give you ability to extend of easily make modifications with ease.

Functionality:

• Sql injections protected(PDO)
• Basic XSS protected
• Registration
• Login
• Captcha(basic)
• Recover password
• Change password
• Chatbox
• Search
• Post threads
• Post replies
• Edit threads(edit own thread title/body)
• Create category(admin)
• Edit category(admin)
• Delete categories(admin)
• Edit threads(admin)
• Delete threads(admin)
• Delete replies(admin)
• Clicks tracker

Functionality that may be added in future.

• Mentioning system
• Private messaging
• Avatar
• Status update
• Design

How to guide.

Open connection_to_db.php file and write down your dataabse details, hostname, username, password and databse name. Change site_name name in form_registration_class.php on line 110 to your website/forum link, and "from" to your website's name, for example "sam forums".
There is no need to import database or table, I have written all the queries, that should make required tables for you. Just create a database named "forum".

Here's a link to my github samforum repository where you can download/clone it from.
https://github.com/phpdevsami/samforum