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🛡

VaultUI
phpBB 3.3.x
Features Preview vaultbb.com VaultUI — $25 Soon

Premium Theme · v1.0.0

VaultUI A forum your members
will actually want to use.

VaultUI is a premium phpBB 3.3.x theme with 115 hand-written templates, full dark & light mode, and every setting you’d ever want reachable from the ACP — without touching a single file.

Get VaultUI — $25 Coming Soon Live Demo Soon

115

Templates

2

Full Themes

0

Core Deps

∞

Accent Colours

🔒 forum.yourcommunity.com

🌗

Dark & Light Mode

Toggle in the nav ↗

⚙️

ACP Controlled

No file edits required

115

Template Files

Every phpBB page covered

2

Fully Designed Modes

Dark & light, not a colour swap

$25

One-Time Purchase

Includes all future updates

∞

Accent Colours

Set yours from the ACP
Prosilver vs VaultUI

What phpBB ships with.
What your forum deserves.

phpBB 3.3.x — Prosilver (default)

−Design from 2007 — instantly recognisable, not in a good way

−No dark mode — one static colour scheme

−No ACP control over accent colour, logo, or hero

~Partially responsive — inconsistent on mobile & tablet

−Generic registration page — no hero, no conversion focus

−No sticky topbar with blur & backdrop effect

−Basic notification display — no dropdown panel

−No sidebar welcome widget, stats block, or recent posts

−No third-party plugin integration compatibility requests

VaultUI — Installed

+Modern design built for 2025 — immediately sets the tone

+Full dark & light mode — smooth CSS-variable transitions throughout

+ACP-driven: accent colour, logo, hero image, board display name

+Fully responsive — mobile, tablet, ultrawide, all properly handled

+Split-panel registration page with live member stats & feature list

+Sticky translucent topbar with backdrop blur

+Rich notification dropdown — mentions, quotes, replies

+Sidebar: welcome widget, recent posts, who’s online, birthdays

+Plugin compatibility requests welcome — before or after purchase

− Not available ~ Available but limited
Template Coverage

Hand-written.
All 115 of them.

Not a skin, not an override. Every template was written from scratch — though like most phpBB themes, prosilver is listed as the parent style for framework fallback.

vaultui / template /

📁 vaultui
  📁 template115 files
    overall_header.html
    overall_footer.html
    index_body.html
    forumlist_body.html
    viewtopic_body.html
    posting_layout.html
    memberlist_view.html
    memberlist_body.html
    posting_pm_layout.html
    register_body.html
    📁 mcp /13 files
    📁 ucp /31 files
    … and 60 more templates

📁 vaultui / theme
  stylesheet.css~350 kb
  stylesheet.css (en)

🔨

Written from scratch, not inherited

Every one of the 115 templates was written fresh. Like most phpBB themes, prosilver is used as the parent style for framework completeness — but no layout or markup is inherited from it.

🎨

CSS design token system

The entire theme is driven by CSS custom properties. Dark mode, light mode, and your chosen accent colour cascade across all 115 templates from a single root definition.

⚙️

ACP settings, not file edits

The included VaultBB Theme plugin renders your ACP settings — accent colour, logo, hero — directly into templates at request time. No PHP edits, no FTP trips after install.

📱

Responsive by design, not patch

Responsive layouts were part of the spec from day one. Every component adapts from 360px mobile to 2560px ultrawide — consistently, with no feature degradation at any breakpoint.

Features

Details that add up
to something different.

Every feature designed for admins who care about how their community feels to use — from the login screen to the deepest ACP panel.

F-01
🌗

Dark & Light Mode

Both modes are fully designed — not a colour inversion. Smooth CSS-variable transitions, OS preference detection, and user toggle. Toggle this page in the nav to see it live.

CSS Variables OS Aware Smooth Transition

F-02
🎛️

Full ACP Control

Set accent colour, logo, hero background, and board display name from phpBB’s native ACP. The bundled VaultBB Theme plugin handles rendering — no file edits needed, ever.

Plugin Included No File Edits

F-03
📱

Fully Responsive

Designed mobile-first from day one — not retrofitted. Every component adapts cleanly from compact 360px phones to ultrawide monitors with no layout degradation.

Mobile-First 360px → 2560px

F-04
🔔

Notification Dropdown

An animated notification panel that surfaces mentions, quotes, and replies at a glance — no full page reload. Cleanly integrated into the sticky, blur-backed topbar.

Animated Panel Mentions Quotes

F-05
🧑‍💼

Registration Page

A multi-step flow with a branded hero panel on the left — live member count, community stats, feature highlights — and a clean, focused form on the right. Built to convert visitors into members.

Split-Panel Multi-Step Live Stats

F-06
🗂️

Rich Forum Index

A collapsible category layout with a persistent sidebar: welcome widget, recent posts, who’s online, birthdays, and board stats — all styled, all ready the moment you install.

Sidebar Widgets Collapsible Recent Posts

Preview

Two themes.
One codebase.

Toggle this page light/dark in the nav — these update too

Dark and light aren’t colour swaps of each other — both were designed as primary experiences.

🔒 forum.yourcommunity.com

Forum Index

🔒 forum.yourcommunity.com/ucp

User Control Panel
What’s Included

The theme. The plugin.
One download.

Bundled at no extra cost

VaultBB Theme
Plugin

The VaultBB Theme plugin ships inside your VaultUI download. It’s a lightweight phpBB extension that bridges ACP settings with the theme’s template layer — so your branding renders automatically without ever touching a file.

🎨
Renders your ACP accent colour into CSS custom properties at runtime

🖼
Logo and hero image configured via ACP — served directly to templates

🔧
Thin, single-purpose plugin — no VaultBB Core required, zero bloat

⚡
Enable once and forget — no ongoing maintenance

// In the box

🗂️ VaultUI Style (115 templates) Included

🎨 Master Stylesheet Included

🌗 Dark & Light Themes Included

🔌 VaultBB Theme Plugin Included

🔄 Future Updates Included

🛠️ phpBB Version 3.3.x

🔗 VaultBB Core Required No — standalone

📝 Templates Hand-Written All 115
Plugin Integrations

Using a third-party plugin?
Request support for it.

VaultUI is built to look great with the plugins your community actually uses. Submit integration requests — before or after your purchase — and we’ll review adding compatibility for your stack wherever possible.

✓ VaultMail s9e/TextFormatter Board Announcements Topic Prefix Post Thanks Group Manager + your plugin →

VaultUI for phpBB 3.3.x
One-time purchase — $25

Your community deserves
a theme worth logging in for.

115 hand-written templates. Dark & light, fully designed.
ACP-driven. Standalone. No Core dependency. Coming soon.

Get VaultUI — $25 Coming Soon Live Demo Soon

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March 2, 2026

VaultMail

Premium Extension · phpBB 3.3.x

phpBB email,
finally
professional.

VaultMail hooks into phpBB’s notification pipeline and replaces its plain-text mailer with a fully ACP-driven HTML email system — per-type templates, multilingual variants, three sending backends, and a privacy-first audit log.

Explore →

13 Email Types

3 Backends

∞ Languages

0 Bodies Stored

my_extension.php — VaultMail API

// Send any registered template from your extension
use vaultbb\vaultmail\vaultmail\api;

/** @var api $mailer */
$mailer = $this->container->get(‘vaultbb.vaultmail.api’);

if ($mailer->isAvailable()) {
  $ok = $mailer->send(
    ‘registration_welcome’,
    ‘[email protected]‘,
    [‘username’ => ‘Elara’],
    ‘my_extension’
  );
}

// Returns true — logged, templated, dispatched.
// ✓ sent · smtp · 0.43ms

phpBB vs VaultMail

What phpBB ships with.
What your forum deserves.

phpBB 3.3.x — Default

−Plain-text emails only — no HTML
−Hardcoded .txt template files
−No per-type control or enabling
~Multilingual via per-lang .txt files — no ACP editor, no per-type variant control
~PHP mail() + board SMTP — no per-send switching, no API/transactional providers
−No password-changed confirmation email
~Basic global test mode — no per-type sandbox, no catch-all address redirect
−No delivery audit log
−No developer API for third-party sends

VaultMail — Installed

+Full HTML templates with branded shell
+ACP template editor with live preview
+Enable/disable VaultMail per email type
+ACP-managed language variants — per type, with fallback chain
+Per-send backend switching: PHPMail · SMTP · Transactional API
+New types phpBB never had: mod queue alert, password changed
+Per-type sandbox with catch-all address redirect and log status
+Metadata audit log — body never stored
+DI-native developer API for third-party extensions

− Not available ~ Available but limited — VaultMail adds ACP control, flexibility, or missing capability

Architecture

How VaultMail intercepts
phpBB’s mail pipeline

📨

phpBB fires notification

Any outgoing email — activation, PM, report — passes through phpBB’s messenger class and notification system.

🎯

Hook captures context

The core.modify_notification_template event fires. VaultMail captures the template filename and raw phpBB variables via reflection.

🔍

Type is resolved

The Resolver maps the template file to one of 20 VaultMail keys via FILE_MAP — language-independent, zero body parsing.

🎨

Template is rendered

Your HTML template is fetched from DB, the correct language variant is selected, and variables are injected via two-layer extraction.

🚀

Sent & logged

Dispatched via your configured backend. Metadata written to audit log — recipient, template key, status, backend. Body never stored.

Features

Nine reasons your
forum email transforms.

From ACP-managed HTML templates to privacy-safe logging — every feature designed for forum admins who actually care about their members’ experience.

F-01

Per-Type Template Control

Each of phpBB’s email types gets its own HTML template in the ACP. Enable or disable VaultMail independently per type — disabled types fall back to phpBB’s native plain-text system.

Selective Override Graceful Fallback

F-02

Multilingual Variants

Create language-specific template variants per email type. VaultMail auto-selects based on the recipient’s board language with a configurable fallback chain — no extra code.

Language Detection Fallback Chain

F-03

Multi-Backend Sending

Switch between PHP mail(), direct SMTP with TLS/STARTTLS, or transactional API providers (Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark, custom) — entirely from the ACP settings page.

PHPMail SMTP+TLS API

F-04

HTML Shell Templates

A global branded shell wraps all emails. Edit header, footer, and styles in the ACP template editor. Individual templates can bypass the shell when full custom layout is needed.

Bypass Shell ACP Editor

F-05

Sandbox Test Mode

Enable test mode and set a catch-all address. Every outgoing email is silently redirected there, logged with status “test”. Configure and verify with zero risk to real members.

Catch Address Safe Setup

F-06

Privacy-First Audit Log

Every send is logged — recipient, template key, language, backend, status, triggered-by. Email body is never stored. Full ACP search, filtering, and log retention controls.

No Body Storage Searchable

F-07

Two-Layer Variable Extraction

Variables are resolved from both a pre-send ContextStore (captured via hook before phpBB renders the template) and a static VAR_MAP — zero language-dependency, zero body parsing.

ContextStore VAR_MAP

F-08

HTML Shell Templates

A global branded HTML shell wraps all outgoing emails. The default shell is a clean, table-based layout seeded on install and fully editable in the ACP template editor. Individual templates can bypass the shell for a fully custom layout.

ACP Editor Bypass Shell Table-Based

F-09

Developer API

Resolve vaultbb.vaultmail.api from phpBB’s DI container. Send any template programmatically — language, rendering, logging, and dispatch handled automatically.

DI Container isAvailable() Auto-logged

Coverage

Every email type,
under your control.

13 email templates covering registration, account management, subscriptions, messaging, and moderation. Some types — like password confirmation and moderation queue alerts — go beyond what phpBB sends by default.

Template Key	Description	Category	Origin
registration_welcome	Registration — Welcome Email	Registration	phpBB Core
registration_activation	Registration — Email/Admin Activation	Registration	phpBB Core
registration_admin_approve	Registration — Admin Approval Required	Registration	phpBB Core
password_reset	Account — Password Reset Request	Account	phpBB Core
password_changed	Account — Password Changed Confirmation	Account	VaultMail ✦
email_change_verify	Account — Email Address Change Verification	Account	phpBB Core
private_message_notify	Private Messages — New PM Notification	Messaging	phpBB Core
thread_subscription	Subscriptions — New Reply in Watched Topic	Subscriptions	phpBB Core
forum_subscription	Subscriptions — New Topic/Reply in Watched Forum	Subscriptions	phpBB Core
report_notification	Moderation — New Report Submitted	Moderation	phpBB Core
moderation_queue_alert	Moderation — Post/Topic Awaiting Approval	Moderation	phpBB Core
mass_mail	Admin Tools — Mass Email to Users	Admin	phpBB Core
contact_us_admin	Contact — Contact Form Submission to Admin	Contact	phpBB Core

✦ VaultMail registers this template — phpBB has no built-in email for this event. Showing all 13 templates. Shell template (shell_default) is omitted — it is the wrapper, not an email type.

Sending Backends

One extension.
Three ways to deliver.

Switch backends in ACP settings — no code changes, no reinstall. Live connection testing built in before you go live.

🐘

PHP mail()

backend: phpmail

Delegates to phpBB’s built-in mail handler. Zero configuration — ideal for shared hosting. Lowest friction to get started.

Zero configuration required
Shared hosting compatible
Instant setup

Recommended

🔒

Direct SMTP

backend: smtp

Connect directly to your SMTP server. Full authentication, TLS and STARTTLS support. Gmail, Outlook, Mailjet, and any standard provider.

TLS / STARTTLS encryption
Full SMTP authentication
Custom host and port
Live connection test

⚡

Transactional API

backend: api

Send via JSON API. Pre-built profiles for Mailgun, SendGrid, and Postmark. Or supply your own endpoint and auth configuration.

Mailgun · SendGrid · Postmark
Custom endpoint support
Bearer or custom header auth
Live connection test

Developer API

Send from any extension.
Zero boilerplate.

VaultMail is natively integrated with phpBB’s dependency injection container. Resolve the API service, check availability, and send — rendering, language selection, backend routing, and logging are all handled for you.

my_extension/event/main_listener.php

/**

 * @var \vaultbb\vaultmail\vaultmail\api

 */

protected $vaultmail;

// Resolve from DI container in constructor

public function __construct(

  \vaultbb\vaultmail\vaultmail\api $vaultmail

) {

  $this->vaultmail = $vaultmail;

}

public function on_user_registered($event) {

  if (!$this->vaultmail->isAvailable()) return;

  $this->vaultmail->send(

    ‘registration_welcome’,

    $event[‘user_row’][‘user_email’],

    [‘username’ => $event[‘user_row’][‘username’]],

    ‘my_extension’ // triggered_by label

  );

}

🧩

Native DI Container Integration

Resolve vaultbb.vaultmail.api directly in your service definition. No static calls, no global state — idiomatic phpBB extension code.

🛡️

Graceful isAvailable() Guard

Call isAvailable() before sending — returns false safely if VaultMail is not installed or is disabled. Your extension never breaks on boards without VaultMail.

🌐

Automatic Language Resolution

Pass an optional language code or let VaultMail auto-resolve the correct variant for the recipient. Your extension stays fully language-agnostic.

📝

Automatic Audit Logging

Every API send is logged with triggered_by set to your extension name — fully traceable and auditable alongside native phpBB sends.

🎨

sendRaw() for One-offs

Need to send a completely custom HTML email without a registered template? sendRaw() accepts subject and body directly — still logged, still dispatched via the configured backend.

Audit Log

Know what was sent.
And what wasn’t.

Metadata-only logging by design. Recipient, template key, language, backend, status, triggered-by source — all recorded. Email body never stored. Configurable retention, ACP search, and log purging built in.

Mail Log — Live

Timestamp	Recipient	Template Key	Lang	Backend	Status	Triggered By
2026-02-24 14:32	[email protected]	registration_welcome	english	smtp	● sent	phpbb_core
2026-02-24 14:28	[email protected]	private_message_notify	english	smtp	● sent	phpbb_core
2026-02-24 14:21	[email protected]	password_reset	english	smtp	● test	phpbb_core
2026-02-24 14:15	[email protected]	ban_notification	english	api	● sent	vaultmail_hook
2026-02-24 13:59	[email protected]	moderation_queue_alert	english	api	● failed	vaultmail_hook
2026-02-24 13:44	[email protected]	thread_subscription	french	smtp	● sent	phpbb_core
2026-02-24 13:30	[email protected]	registration_welcome	english	smtp	● delegated	my_extension

⚡

Requires VaultBB Core ≥ 1.2.0. VaultMail depends on Core for its registry, admin UI, logging, and security layer. Install Core first — it’s free.

Get VaultBB Core — Free →

VaultMail for phpBB

Your forum deserves
better email.

One extension. Every feature. The email system phpBB should have shipped with.

Get Core — Free

February 23, 2026

VaultBB Core
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VaultBB Core
for phpBB

N/A Requires phpBB 3.3.x · PHP 7.4+

The shared service foundation for the entire VaultBB premium extension ecosystem on phpBB 3.3.x. Provides the Registry, Logger, AdminUI, Error Handler, and more — install once, power everything.

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7

DI Services exposed

2

Database tables created

Free

Always open foundation
ext.php — is_enableable()

namespace vaultbb\myextension; class ext extends \phpbb\extension\base { public function is_enableable(): bool { // Require VaultBB Core to be present if (!$this->container-> has('vaultbb.core.registry')) { return new \phpbb\extension\exception( 'VAULTBB_CORE_REQUIRED' ); } $registry = $this->container-> get('vaultbb.core.registry'); // Verify minimum Core version if (!$registry->meetsVersion('1.0.0')) { return new \phpbb\extension\exception( 'VAULTBB_CORE_VERSION_REQUIRED' ); } return true; } }
Step 01

Download & extract

Extract the zip to get a vaultbb/core/ folder.

Step 02

Upload to server

Place the folder at ext/vaultbb/core/ in your phpBB root.

Step 03

Enable in ACP

Go to ACP → Customise → Extensions and enable VaultBB Core.

Step 04

Verify dashboard

Navigate to ACP → VaultBB → Dashboard to confirm it’s active.

Symfony DI Services

Seven services.
One install.

VaultBB Core registers seven Symfony DI services that every other VaultBB extension consumes out of the box. No manual wiring — just inject and build.

vaultbb.core.registry

Registry

Tracks all installed VaultBB extensions with version, status, and metadata. Backed by a 1-hour cache layer — getAll() hits the database once per hour across all requests.

1hr Cache Version check Active state

vaultbb.core.logger

Logger

Centralized audit log written to phpbb_vaultbb_logs. Supports per-extension filtering, pagination, and configurable retention with automatic purging.

Audit trail Filterable Auto-purge

vaultbb.core.admin_ui

AdminUI

Complete ACP component library: brand headers, metric tiles, status rows, alerts, badges, extension rows, and log rows. All VaultBB ACP modules are built exclusively with this.

Components Dark theme Twig

vaultbb.core.error_handler

Error Handler

Production-safe exception management. Re-throws in debug mode for inspection; silently logs and suppresses in production so your forum stays online even when something goes wrong.

Debug mode Auto-log Safe wrapper

vaultbb.core.settings

Settings Store

Per-extension key-value configuration store. All VaultBB extensions should use this for their own config values rather than directly touching phpBB’s config table.

Per-extension Cached Typed

vaultbb.core.update_checker

Update Checker

Compares registered extension versions against the latest available from the VaultBB API. Results are cached for a configurable TTL (default 6 hours) to avoid hammering the API.

6hr cache API-ready Per-ext

vaultbb.core.notifier

Admin Notifier

Persistent notification queue displayed on the VaultBB ACP dashboard. Extensions post notifications via notify(); admins dismiss them through the UI.

Persistent Dashboard Dismissable
Developer API

Clean contracts.
Zero boilerplate.

Every service exposes a consistent, documented PHP API. Inject via Symfony DI, call the method, move on. No global state, no magic, no surprises.

Registry lifecycle register() on enable · setActive(false) on disable · unregister() on purge

Structured logging log(source, action, context) — consistent action names across the ecosystem

Safe callable wrapper error_handler->safe(fn, source, default) — swallow or rethrow based on debug mode

Cross-extension checks registry->isActive('vaultbb/other') before touching another extension’s services

phpBB event integration Hooks core.user_setup, core.page_header, and core.adm_page_header — no polling

my_extension/acp/main_module.php

// Inject Core services via DI public function __construct( registry $registry, logger $logger, admin_ui $admin_ui, error_handler $error_handler ) {} // Render branded header $this->admin_ui->brand_header( 'My Extension', 'Overview' ); // Show live metrics $this->admin_ui->metric('Items', $count, '#0c6e46'); $this->admin_ui->metric('Today', $today, '#2563eb'); // Log the page view safely $this->error_handler->safe( fn() => $this->logger->log( 'myext', 'settings_updated', ['user_id' => $user_id] ), 'myext', null );
Release Notes

What’s shipped.

Compact view of all framework releases. Follows Semantic Versioning.
Extension Architecture

phpBB-native.
Symfony-powered.

VaultBB Core is a proper phpBB 3.3.x extension: PSR-4 autoloaded, wired through the Symfony DI container, and using phpBB’s migration system for all database changes. No monkey-patching, no global state.

01
Must be installed first Every VaultBB extension checks for Core via is_enableable() before phpBB lets it activate.

02
Single ACP tab for the whole ecosystem Core creates the ACP_VAULTBB tab once. All other extensions add their modules under it — never a new top-level tab.

03
Migrations handle everything Tables, default config, and ACP modules are all created and torn down through phpBB’s migration runner. Zero manual SQL.

04
Purge Core last Always purge all dependent extensions before purging Core. Dropping Core drops phpbb_vaultbb_registry and phpbb_vaultbb_logs — irreversible.

ext/vaultbb/core/

vaultbb/core/ ├── acp/ │ ├── main_info.php │ └── main_module.php ├── adm/style/ │ ├── acp_vaultbb_core_dashboard.html │ ├── acp_vaultbb_core_logs.html │ ├── acp_vaultbb_core_settings.html │ └── vaultbb_core_base.html ├── admin_ui/ │ └── admin_ui.php ├── config/ │ └── services.yml ← 7 DI services ├── error/ │ └── error_handler.php ├── event/ │ └── main_listener.php ├── language/en/ │ ├── common.php │ └── info_acp_core.php ├── logger/ │ └── logger.php ├── migrations/ │ ├── install_schema.php │ ├── install_data.php │ └── v102…v104… ├── docs/ │ ├── README.md │ ├── INSTALL.md │ ├── DEVELOPER.md │ ├── CHANGELOG.md │ └── EVENTS.md ├── composer.json └── ext.php
Pricing

The Core is Free.
Naturally.

The foundation of the VaultBB phpBB ecosystem will never be paywalled.
VaultBB Core — phpBB Edition

€0 / forever

No account required. No license key. Just download, upload, enable.

7 Symfony DI services for the whole ecosystem

Shared ACP tab & dashboard for all VaultBB extensions

Centralized audit log with retention controls

Full ACP component library (AdminUI)

Production-safe error handling

Settings Store, Update Checker & Admin Notifier

phpBB 3.3.x · PHP 7.4+ · PSR-4 autoloaded

Full documentation: README, INSTALL, DEVELOPER, EVENTS

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February 21, 2026

Post Forms

Premium phpBB Extension

Give your forums
a structured
voice.

Replace the freeform new-topic editor with purpose-built, field-driven forms. Admins design them, users fill them in, phpBB posts them — clean every time.

Paid phpBB 3.3.x PHP 7.2+ Requires VaultBB Core

Coming Soon View Docs →

forum.example.com/postform?f=12

Bug Report

Fill in all fields accurately so we can reproduce your issue.

Bug Title *

Affected Version *

— Select a version —

Severity *

Low

High — site breaking

Critical

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to /login 2. Enter credentials 3. Click submit

Options

Notify me

Signature

Post Topic

Cancel

* required

Field types

text → date

Multi-Form

Per-forum assignments

user picks from list

BBCode Out

Output templates

{field_key} placeholders

Extra queries

cache-backed forum map

How it works

Admin designs. User fills.
phpBB posts.

Six clean steps from first setup to a perfectly structured topic — and not one of them touches replies or edits.

01 📋

Create a Form

ACP → VaultBB → Post Forms → Forms. Name it, write a description, define subject and output templates.

02 🔧

Add Fields

Build field by field from 9 types. Set labels, placeholders, validation rules, and display order.

03 📌

Assign to Forums

Link your form to one or more forums by Forum ID. Multiple forms per forum are fully supported.

04 🔀

User is Redirected

“Post New Topic” in an assigned forum lands the user on your custom form — not the standard editor.

05 ✅

Form is Validated

Required fields enforced. Lengths checked. Formats verified — URL, email, number, date. Errors shown inline.

06 🚀

Topic Created Natively

Field values assemble into BBCode via your template, then phpBB’s own submit_post() creates the topic.

Field types

Nine ways to collect
exactly what you need.

Every field supports labels, descriptions, placeholders, default values, sort order — and maps to a {field_key} placeholder in your output template.

✏️

Text

Single-line input with min/max length, placeholder and default value. For titles, versions, names, identifiers.

type: text

📝

Textarea

Multi-line text area with the same validation as text. For descriptions, reproduction steps, long-form answers.

type: textarea

🔽

Dropdown

Select from a predefined list. Options entered one per line in ACP. Outputs the selected value to the template.

type: dropdown

⚪

Radio

Radio button group built from your options list. One visible selection — ideal for severity, category, priority.

type: radio

☑️

Checkbox

Single on/off toggle. Outputs “yes” or “no” in the assembled post body. For confirmations and boolean flags.

type: checkbox

🔗

URL

Text input with server-side URL format validation. Accepts https:// and http://. Invalid entries clearly rejected.

type: url

📧

Email

Email address input with format validation. Useful when a contact or coordination address needs capturing.

type: email

🔢

Number

Numeric input validated on submission. For counts, order numbers, port numbers, quantities.

type: number

📅

Date

Native date picker stored and validated as YYYY-MM-DD. Perfect for deadlines, events, schedules.

type: date

Output templates

You write the template.
It fills the blanks.

Full control over both the post body and the topic subject via {field_key} placeholders — wrapped in any BBCode you like.

output_template — Bug Report

[Bug] {title} — v{version}

[b]Title:[/b] {title}
[b]Version:[/b] {version}
[b]Severity:[/b] {severity}

[b]Description:[/b]
{description}

[b]Steps to Reproduce:[/b]
[list]
{steps}
[/list]

[b]Repro URL:[/b] {repro_url}

🔑

{field_key} placeholders

Every field gets a key. Use {that_key} anywhere in the output or subject template and it will be swapped with the user’s submitted value on post.

📌

Subject line templates

Define the topic title with the same {field_key} syntax — e.g. [Bug] {title} — v{version}. Leave blank and the first required text field value is used automatically.

✨

Full BBCode freedom

Wrap placeholders in any BBCode — [b], [list], [quote], [url]. The assembled result is standard phpBB post content processed normally.

🔁

Auto-format fallback

Leave the template blank and Post Forms outputs each field as [b]Label:[/b] Value on its own line — clean and readable with zero configuration.

Multi-form support

One forum. Multiple forms.
User’s choice.

Assign as many forms as you need to a single forum. When a user starts a new topic, they see a clean selection page — or land directly on the form if only one is active.

forum.example.com/postform?f=5

Select a post template

Choose a template below to structure your topic.

🐛

Bug Report

Report a problem or unexpected behaviour

→

💡

Feature Request

Suggest a new feature or improvement

→

❓

General Question

Ask the team or community anything

→

Assign as many forms as needed

From ACP → Assign to Forums, link any number of forms to a forum. Sort order controls how they appear to the user.

Single form? Direct redirect.

When only one active form is assigned, users skip the picker entirely. The selection page only appears with two or more active forms.

Disable without unassigning

Toggling a form’s Enabled switch off removes it from user-facing views instantly. The assignment is preserved — toggle it back on when ready.

Replies and edits? Untouched.

The redirect fires on new topic creation only. Replies, quote-replies, and post edits always use the standard phpBB editor.

Validation

Server-side. Always.
No workarounds.

Every field validated on submission regardless of client-side state. Errors surface inline per-field and as a top-level summary banner.

Bug Title *

⚠ This field is required.

Reproduction URL

not-a-valid-url

⚠ Please enter a valid URL (e.g. https://example.com).

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open settings…

🔒

Required / optional per field

Mark any field as required. The form will not submit until every required field has a valid, non-empty value.

📏

Min / max character length

Set character limits on text, textarea, url, and email fields. A hint is shown below the input. Set to 0 to disable either limit independently.

🎯

Format checks

URL, email, number, and date fields each carry a dedicated server-side format validator with clear, localised error messages.

📍

Inline per-field errors

Each error is attached to the specific field that failed — users know exactly what to fix without scanning the entire form.

Developer reference

Injectable service. Clean API.
Full extensibility.

The central vaultbb.postforms.manager service is injectable into any Symfony DI-aware service. Build on top of forms, fields, and assignments programmatically.

form_manager — public API

Method	Returns	Description
get_forms_for_forum($forum_id)	array	Active forms for a forum — cached
forum_has_forms($forum_id)	bool	Fast cached presence check
create_form($data)	int	Creates a form, returns its ID
create_field($form_id, $data)	int	Adds a field to a form
validate_submission($fields, $values)	array	Returns error keys by field_key
assemble_post_body($form, $fields, $values)	string	Renders the BBCode post body
assemble_subject($form, $fields, $values)	string	Renders the topic subject
assign_forum($forum_id, $form_id, $sort)	void	Adds a forum↔form assignment

phpBB Events

vaultbb.postforms.form_submitted

Fires after a validated submission — the topic has already been created via submit_post(). React to new structured posts from your own extension.

form_idforum_iduser_idpost_bodysubject

core.posting_modify_template_vars

Post Forms listens here to detect new-topic mode in assigned forums and fire the redirect — no core hacks, no file edits.

native phpBBhook-based

⚡

Cache-backed forum map — zero query overhead

The forum↔form lookup is cached under _vaultbb_postforms_forum_map with a 30-minute TTL. Normal page loads add exactly zero extra queries. Any write operation invalidates the cache automatically.

Installation

Standard install.
Up in minutes.

No Composer, no shell access required. Standard phpBB extension install — but make sure VaultBB Core is running first.

⚡

VaultBB Core is required

Post Forms depends on VaultBB Core for its admin UI integration, registry, and license layer. Install and enable Core first — it’s free.

Get Core — Free →

Install and enable VaultBB Core first if you haven’t already.

Download and unzip the Post Forms package.

Upload the vaultbb/postforms folder to ext/vaultbb/postforms/ on your phpBB board.

Go to ACP → Customise → Manage Extensions, find Post Forms, click Enable. Migrations run automatically.

Open ACP → VaultBB → Post Forms, create your first form, add fields, and assign it to a forum.

Requirements

phpBB3.3.x

PHP7.2+

VaultBB Core1.0.0 or higher

LicenseProprietary

Package

Composer namevaultbb/postforms

Install pathext/vaultbb/postforms/

Version1.0.0

Release Notes

What’s changed.

Compact view of the latest Post Forms releases.

Structured topics.
Happier moderators.

Stop reading half-formed posts. Give your community the forms they need to say it right the first time.

Coming Soon Get Support →

February 21, 2026

Minimum Post Characters

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Free phpBB Extension

Minimum Post
Characters.

Enforce meaningful post length on a per-forum basis. No filler, no one-word replies — your forums, your standards.

Free & Open Source phpBB 3.3.x PHP 7.2+

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Per-Forum

Granular control

0 Deps

No Core required

Full Unicode

mb_strlen aware

What it does

Keep control 👀

A focused extension that solves one problem well — keeping post quality up without getting in the way of your community.

📋

Per-Forum Minimums

Set a different character minimum for each forum, directly from ACP → Forums → Edit Forum. Set it to 0 to disable for that forum entirely.

Global setting auto-merge Per-forum

👥

Group Bypass Permissions

Exempt any combination of user groups via phpBB’s native group permissions. Administrators are always unconditionally bypassed — no config needed.

Group permissions Admins auto-exempt

🏷️

BBCode-Stripped Counting

Tags are stripped and whitespace collapsed before counting — so users can’t pad posts with hidden markup. [b]Hi[/b] counts as 2, not 9.

Anti-padding Whitespace collapsed

Under the hood

Smart counting 🧮

Before comparing against the minimum, the extension strips all BBCode and collapses whitespace. What you see is what actually counts — no way around it.

Note: quoted content from other posts does count toward the total. Only the BBCode markup itself is stripped, not the body text inside quote tags.

character_count_examples

[b]Hi[/b] → Hi 2 chars

[b]Hello[/b] → Hello 5 chars

[quote=”X”]quoted[/quote] reply → quoted reply 12 chars

こんにちは → こんにちは 5 chars

Whitespace is also collapsed — extra spaces between words don’t inflate the count.

💡

phpBB’s global minimum always takes precedence

phpBB ships with its own board-wide Minimum characters per post setting under ACP → General → Post Settings. This extension’s per-forum values layer on top of it — if the global minimum is 10 and a forum’s is 5, users still need 10 characters. The higher threshold always wins.

Get started

Up in two minutes 🕐

Okay, maybe five. Anyway, it’s a standard phpBB extension install — no shell access, no Composer required… and no VaultBB Core needed.

1

Download and unzip the extension package.

2

Upload the vaultbb/minpostchars folder to your board under ext/vaultbb/minpostchars/

3

Go to ACP → Customise → Manage Extensions, find Minimum Post Characters and click Enable. Database migrations run automatically.

4

To exempt a user group, go to ACP → Permissions → Groups, select the group, and toggle the Can bypass minimum post characters permission.

5

Edit any forum under ACP → Forums → Manage Forums and set the Minimum characters per post field. Done.

Requirements

phpBB3.3.x

PHP7.2+

LicenseGPL-2.0

Package

Composer namevaultbb/minpostchars

Install pathext/vaultbb/minpostchars/

Changelog

Release Notes

A compact view of every update to Minimum Post Characters.

Just a free extension.
Take it.

No account needed, no license key, no catch. Unzip, upload, enable.

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VaultUI A forum your memberswill actually want to use.

What phpBB ships with.What your forum deserves.

Hand-written.All 115 of them.

Details that add upto something different.

Two themes.One codebase.

The theme. The plugin.One download.

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phpBB email, finally professional.

What phpBB ships with.What your forum deserves.

How VaultMail interceptsphpBB’s mail pipeline

phpBB fires notification

Hook captures context

Type is resolved

Template is rendered

Sent & logged

Nine reasons yourforum email transforms.

Every email type,under your control.

One extension.Three ways to deliver.

Send from any extension.Zero boilerplate.

Know what was sent.And what wasn’t.

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VaultBB Core for phpBB

Download & extract

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Seven services.One install.

Clean contracts.Zero boilerplate.

What’s shipped.

phpBB-native.Symfony-powered.

The Core is Free.Naturally.

Post Forms

Give your forumsa structuredvoice.

Admin designs. User fills.phpBB posts.

Create a Form

Add Fields

Assign to Forums

User is Redirected

Form is Validated

Topic Created Natively

Nine ways to collectexactly what you need.

Text

Textarea

Dropdown

Radio

Checkbox

URL

Email

Number

Date

You write the template.It fills the blanks.

One forum. Multiple forms.User’s choice.

Server-side. Always.No workarounds.

Injectable service. Clean API.Full extensibility.

Standard install.Up in minutes.

Requirements

Package

What’s changed.

Structured topics.Happier moderators.

Minimum Post Characters

Minimum PostCharacters.

Keep control 👀

Per-Forum Minimums

Group Bypass Permissions

BBCode-Stripped Counting

Smart counting 🧮

Up in two minutes 🕐

Requirements

Package

Release Notes

Just a free extension.Take it.

VaultUI A forum your members
will actually want to use.

What phpBB ships with.
What your forum deserves.

Hand-written.
All 115 of them.

Details that add up
to something different.

Two themes.
One codebase.

The theme. The plugin.
One download.

VaultBB Theme
Plugin

Using a third-party plugin?
Request support for it.

Your community deserves
a theme worth logging in for.

phpBB email,
finally
professional.

What phpBB ships with.
What your forum deserves.

How VaultMail intercepts
phpBB’s mail pipeline

Nine reasons your
forum email transforms.

Every email type,
under your control.

One extension.
Three ways to deliver.

Send from any extension.
Zero boilerplate.

Know what was sent.
And what wasn’t.

Your forum deserves
better email.

VaultBB Core
for phpBB

Seven services.
One install.

Clean contracts.
Zero boilerplate.

phpBB-native.
Symfony-powered.

The Core is Free.
Naturally.

Give your forums
a structured
voice.

Admin designs. User fills.
phpBB posts.

Nine ways to collect
exactly what you need.

You write the template.
It fills the blanks.

One forum. Multiple forms.
User’s choice.

Server-side. Always.
No workarounds.

Injectable service. Clean API.
Full extensibility.

Standard install.
Up in minutes.

Structured topics.
Happier moderators.

Minimum Post
Characters.

Just a free extension.
Take it.