The work on FUDforum has finally been completed, so I thought to let the PHP
users and developers know about it since they may be interested in this
project. It has finally reached the stage where I feel it is mostly bug free
and is ready for its debut.
You can download FUDforum tar ball from http://fud.prohost.org/download.php,
and should be pretty easy to install using the provided installation script.
I've also made a "demo" forum, which you play with, both as user and as admin
here, http://fud.prohost.org/dfrm/
Here is just a quick list of features that I can recall of the top of my head:
Core features.
* Ability to use FUDcode, HTML or Plain Text inside posts, configurable
by the admin
* Administrator definable ranks for the users bases on number of posts as
well as assign an unlimited number of custom tags to individual users
* Built in spell checker (using the pspell library)
* Private Messaging system, with post tracking & buddy lists
* Ignore list, allows forum members to ignore posts made by other users.
* CSS control panel, allowing the admin to easily customize the forum's
look & feel
* Optional Threaded View (by default standard flat view is used, like
UBB,VBulletin, phpBB, etc...)
* Customizable Find and Replace system, which fully supports both perl
regexp (preg) and php regexp (ereg) and even str_replace for extremely fast
simple replaces
The usual features you may have come to expect from forum software
* Posting/Replying and editing of topics and messages
* Sticky/Announcement messages which stay on top of the forum until they
reach their expire date
* Custom Avatars upload with administrator approval and automatic scaling
(if ImageMagick's mogrify utility is installed)
* Emoticon (smilies) Support, with an easy to use admin control panel,
which allows the admin to add/remove and edit smilies
* Post notification system, which can send notifications via Email & ICQ
* Unlimited number of forum moderators
* Hidden, Private, Moderated and Password protected forums
* Moderation queue, in moderated forums all unapproved messages can be
viewed by the moderator and approved or deleted on the spot.
* Email confirmation of registered users (can't post until the email
address is confirmed)
* Specialized HTML like FUDcode that allows styling of messages, the
advantage of FUDcode over HTML is that FUDcode will never break layout.
* Banning of users by their username and/or IP or IP Mask, Email address
filter or Login name filter (full regexp support)
* Multiple file uploads per post (configurable by the administrator for
each forum)
* File extension control, allowing/disallowing certain file extensions
* Fully customizable header & footer which can support PHP code
* Language filter (full regexp), which allows the admin to replace
certain offensive words
* Full support for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
* Automatic lost password retrieval
* Search Engine
* MD5 passwords (128 Bit encryption)
* Thread locking by Administrators & Moderators
* Easy to use installation PHP or Shell script
* Unread Posts Tracking, you can automatically see which posts you have
not yet read
* Extensive message filtering, by date, read/unread, forum, thread, reply
status
* Message reporting, allows visitors to report inappropriate messages to
the Administrator
* Robust MySQL back-end, with a virtually unlimited number of messages
(up to 2^32 messages)
* Cookie based tracking system backed by Sessions in the event the user
cannot use cookies.
* Polls if allowed, users can create on or more polls on their messages
* Forum & Thread subscription system with an easy to use control panel.
Allows users to subscribe & unsubscribe from forums & threads.
* I-SPY system, if enabled it allows forum members to see what the other
users on the forum are doing.
There are more, but I won't bore you more so then necessary, I am sure you'll
find'em out if you decide to try this thing out.
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Ilia Alshanetsky
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FUDforum - http://fud.prohost.org/
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