How To Install a PhpBB Mod on Your Bulletin Board System

If you've taken a moment or two to browse through the forums, otherwise known as bulletin boards, across the web, you'll notice that a vast majority of them use a system known as phpBB. phpBB is a free, open source bulletin board system that can be downloaded at no charge, with no spyware or adware attached, and uploaded to any personally owned hosting server and used "out of the box" for a quite functional message board. There are a vast number of other forum options: simple machine forums, vBulletin, and invision boards just to name a few, but it is commonly known that none is so used as phpBB.

One believed reason for this popularity is the immense number of "mods," or modifications, which are available to those that chose to use phpBB. If you go to the main phpBB website, you can see under the "mods" area that there are quite literally hundreds of "mods" available at all stages of development. As much as most people know of these "mods," many never attempt to use them because they just seem too difficult. Well I'm here to let everyone know that it is not as difficult as it looks! The tons of coding that you might see, the large size of some files, and odd code-speak like "php" and "sql" are intimidating to many, but as I've discovered myself it IS possible, if you know a few basic concepts, for almost anyone to install almost any mod. Now sit back, relax, and prepare to take notes and begin the simple, yet tedious, task of installing a phpBB mod!