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Chapter 1. Quick Start Guide
A quick guide through the first steps of installing and configuring up your very own phpBB 3.0
forum.
1. Requirements
phpBB has a few requirements which must be met before you are able to install and use
it. In this section, these requirements are explained.
• A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with
support for PHP
• A SQL database system, one of:
• FireBird 2.1 or above
• MySQL 3.23 or above
• MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL 7.x or above
• SQLite 2
• PHP 4.3.3+ (>=4.3.3, >4.4.x, >5.x.x, >6.0-dev (compatible)) with support for the
database you intend to use.
• getimagesize() function enabled
• The following PHP modules are optional, but will provide access to additional features.
• zlib Compression support
• Remote FTP support
• XML support
• Imagemagick support
• GD support
The presence of each of these required features will be checked during the installation
process, explained in Section 2, “Installation”.
