Following are the features available in phpBB board making it one of the most popular board for forums owners.
- Availability of various font styles and multiple sizes which are compatible for many quoting styles, codes, inserting images and automatically converting the URLs in to links.
- Standard and extended BBCode tags and limited HTML tags are supported in phpBB boards.
- Participant can conduct polls with multiple options in the posts and can view the public opinion on specific subjects.
- Notifications through emails can be send whenever anyone replies to a post.
- Topic subscription is possible in more effective to know each update over it.
- Emotions can be from original to portray.
- Default search facility with many search options available.
- Private messages can be sent as emails to other members of the board.
- Multiple types of avatars like local, remote and uploadable are supported on board.
- Topic edition is possible after posting.
- Post can be deleted, moved, locked and unlocked for administration and moderation purpose.
- Topic can be divided in parts.