What Is Simple Machines Forum (SMF) and How Is It Installed?

Simple Machines Forum is an open-source forum application developed with PHP and MySQL. The source mentions a 2.1 beta release in 2014. Its SSI feature integrates with other pages, allowing operations such as login from another page.

Languages listed in the source

Albanian, Arabic, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Norwegian, English, Finnish, French, Thai, Dutch, Japanese, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Softaculous provides a straightforward installation path.

Enter smf in the search field on the left and click Install Now.

Complete the form fields shown below to finish installation.

General features listed in the original article

• Extensive template system
• Permissions and user management
• Multiple languages
• Open, documented source code
• Tracking new and older unread topics with last-visit statistics
• Designed for performance
• Multimedia output: XHTML, XML, RSS and WAP
• Language management
• Automatic module installation through the package manager
• Advanced search
• Private-message search
• Additional features

This article was originally published in Turkish on 6 April 2017 and has been migrated from our previous website. This English version is a translation of the original article. The content may reflect information from that time.