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<h3>General</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
 
			<li>Uses <acronym title="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor">PHP</acronym> and MySQL.</li> 
			<li>Comprehensive template system.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Advanced permission and user management.</strong></li> 
			<li>Supports multiple languages at once.</li> 
			<li>Open and well-documented source code.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from your last visit.</strong></li> 
			<li>Designed for optimal performance and scalability.</li> 
			<li>Multi-media output. (<acronym title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym>, <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym>, <acronym title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</acronym>, <acronym title="Wireless Application Protocol">WAP</acronym>)</li> 
			<li>Multi-language support from a large community.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Package manager that automatically installs or uninstalls mods (also known as hacks.)</strong></li> 
			<li>Search:
				<ul> 
					<li>Search the entire forum, a category/board or within a topic.</li> 
					<li>Search within your personal messages.</li> 
				</ul> 
			</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Security</h3> 
 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>All actions seamlessly require a session based authorization code.</li> 
			<li>Administrative actions require the user's password (and do not rely solely on cookies.)</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Major actions are time and IP locked, preventing 'hammering'.</strong></li> 
			<li>The number of login attempts from a certain IP can be limited and time locked.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Forum Settings</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Ability to display page creation time and query count per page.</li> 
			<li>Put a board into maintenance mode, allowing only admins to login.</li> 
			<li>Word censoring, either full word or partial.</li> 
			<li>Ability to break up long words.</li> 
 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Boards and Categories</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Group boards into collapsible categories.</li> 
			<li>Set categories as non-collapsible.</li> 
			<li>Reorder boards within categories, or reorder categories.</li> 
 
			<li class="more"><strong>Create child boards under other boards. (sub boards)</strong></li> 
			<li>Assign moderators to boards.</li> 
			<li>Allow certain membergroups to access a board, including guests <em>only</em>.</li> 
			<li><strong>Configure permissions for each membergroup on the board level.</strong></li> 
			<li>Ability to indicate new posts to child boards but nothing new in parent.</li> 
 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Member Registration</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Require registration before forum entrance.</li> 
			<li>Require a user to agree to terms before they register.</li> 
			<li>Disable member registration completely (allowing only moderators to register people).</li> 
 
			<li>Require email authentication by sending an authentication link.</li> 
			<li>Require a moderator to approve registration.</li> 
			<li>Register new members from the admin center.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Member Navigation and Authentication</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
 
			<li>Several security checks during navigation.</li> 
			<li>Password reminder option, by email with confirmation. (doesn't automatically reset your password.)</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Both cookie and session based authentication (works without cookies.)</strong></li> 
			<li>Cookies can be set local to a path, global to all subdomains, or normally.</li> 
			<li>Adjustable expiration time for authentication cookies.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Member Tracking and Tracing</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Sortable and searchable public memberlist (accessible by a permission.)</li> 
			<li>Powerful sortable and searchable admin memberlist.</li> 
			<li>Show all (error) messages and IPs made by a member. (track user)</li> 
			<li>Show all (error) messages from an IP address or range. (track IP)</li> 
 
			<li>See who's doing what (accessible by permission.)</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Statistics</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Several board statistics (accessible by permission.)</li> 
			<li>Tracking of member's online time in seconds.</li> 
 
			<li>Tracking of topics, messages, new members, and hits per day.</li> 
			<li>Individual member statistics accessible from their profile.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>News and Announcements</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Ability to create announcement boards (members receive a notification of topics automatically.)</li> 
			<li>Member option to disable receiving announcements.</li> 
			<li>Email or private message your members by membergroup.</li> 
			<li>Show a news ticker or news fader.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Communication</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Ability to choose sendmail or SMTP (with or without authentication.)</strong></li> 
			<li>Ability to send a topic to a friend.</li> 
			<li>Ability to view a &quot;printer friendly&quot; version of topics.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Membergroups</h3> 
 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Create membergroups to group members on permissions, access rights, and/or appearance.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Assign several membergroups to a single member, with one membergroup as the primary group.</strong></li> 
			<li>Define membergroups that are auto-assigned based on the amount of posts a user has.</li> 
			<li>Determine the maximum number of personal messages a membergroup is allowed to have by group.</li> 
			<li>Assign graphical symbol(s) to a membergroup - by primary group.</li> 
 
			<li>Determine which membergroups are allowed to access a board.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Banning</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Ban members based on their username, email address, IP address or hostname.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Support of wildcards for email address, IP address, and hostname.</strong></li> 
 
			<li>Include a ban reason (viewable for the banned user).</li> 
			<li>Include a ban note (only viewable by the admins).</li> 
			<li>Chose between full ban, 'no post' ban, or registration ban.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Include an expiration time for bans.</strong></li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>External integration</h3> 
 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li> 
				Integrate parts of forum software into existing website using SSI or PHP.
				<ul> 
					<li>Recent topics or posts.</li> 
					<li>Recent news posts in a board.</li> 
					<li>Recent polls.</li> 
					<li>Several forum statistics.</li> 
 
					<li>List of users online.</li> 
					<li>The menu bar.</li> 
					<li>News.</li> 
					<li>Search.</li> 
					<li>Login/logout.</li> 
					<li>Today's events/birthdays/holidays.</li> 
 
				</ul> 
			</li> 
			<li> 
				<strong>Export forum data using XML/RSS</strong> 
				<ul> 
					<li>Latest members.</li> 
					<li>News.</li> 
 
					<li>Recent posts.</li> 
				</ul> 
			</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Wireless access</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Support for WAP, WAP2 and I-mode protocols.</strong></li> 
 
			<li>Browse through boards/topics/messages with reduced page size.</li> 
			<li>Ability to login and logout (not with WAP 1.)</li> 
			<li>Ability to see new topics/boards with new replies.</li> 
			<li>Ability to jump to first unread reply.</li> 
			<li>Ability to post new messages (not with WAP 1.)</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Theming and Templating</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Ability to allow or disallow your users to select their own theme.</li> 
			<li>Ability to reset all of your members to a certain theme.</li> 
			<li>Ability to install a new theme via your administration center.</li> 
			<li>Default templates are XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0 compliant.</li> 
 
			<li>Admin can add smileys and smiley sets.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Members can choose which smiley set they wish to use (or none.)</strong></li> 
			<li>Themes can be installed by way of the &quot;latest and greatest themes&quot; panel.</li> 
			<li>SSI can have and show layers and the like from the template system.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Posting Features</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Spell Check.</strong></li> 
			<li> 
				Quick Reply
				<ul> 
					<li>Members can disable it or collapse it.</li> 
 
					<li>Can be used with &quot;Quote&quot;.</li> 
					<li>Also contains &quot;Spell Check&quot;.</li> 
				</ul> 
			</li> 
			<li>Vast number of &quot;bulletin board codes&quot; to use (including rtl, acronym, and others.)</li> 
			<li>Optional editing grace period before a post is shown as modified.</li> 
			<li><strong>'Insert Quote' feature on posting screen to quickly quote previous replies.</strong></li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Polls</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Can be added or removed to existing topics.</strong></li> 
			<li>Ability to set expiration date.</li> 
			<li>Ability to hide results till expiration of poll.</li> 
			<li>Ability to hide results until after people have voted.</li> 
			<li>Ability to determine how many votes a user may cast.</li> 
			<li>Polls can have up to 256 options.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Attachments</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Allowed on a per member group or board basis.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>The filename can be encrypted to increase the security (so you can upload .php files, etc.)</strong></li> 
			<li>Optional restriction on what filetypes may be uploaded.</li> 
			<li>Ability to restrict such that only registered members can view them (disables hotlinking, mostly.)</li> 
 
			<li>Images can be embedded into posts.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Calendar Support</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Shows Birthdays, Events and Holidays.</li> 
			<li>Display calendar information on board index.</li> 
 
			<li>Link an existing topic to the calendar.</li> 
			<li>Allow only certain members/groups post events.</li> 
			<li>Event poster can edit event.</li> 
			<li>Events can span multiple days.</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>Moderation Tools</h3> 
 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li> 
				Ability to lock and unlock a topic.
				<ul> 
					<li>Topics which are locked by an administrator can not unlocked by anyone else.</li> 
				</ul> 
			</li> 
			<li><strong>Ability to allow members to use moderation on just topics they posted.</strong></li> 
 
			<li>&quot;Report to moderator&quot; link.</li> 
			<li>Delete or modify posts.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Ability to Merge/Split topics.</strong></li> 
			<li>Move or delete topics.</li> 
			<li>Sticky or unsticky topics.</li> 
 
			<li><strong>Recycle bin/board for all deleted topics and posts.</strong></li> 
			<li>Moderation log which shows moderation activity and disallows log removal outside of 1 day.</li> 
			<li>AJAX editing:
				<ul> 
					<li>Edit a post without page reloads.</li> 
					<li>Double click to edit topic subjects on message index.</li> 
				</ul> 
			</li> 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>User Profiles and User Options</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Ability to hide your email address from the public.</li> 
 
			<li>Select their favorite theme among the activated forum themes.</li> 
			<li>Select their smiley set from the ones available.</li> 
			<li> 
				Email notification
				<ul> 
					<li>New topics per board.</li> 
					<li>Single topics.</li> 
 
					<li>Private messages.</li> 
				</ul> 
			</li> 
			<li>Login with 'invisible' mode.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Options to hide other members' avatars and signatures.</strong></li> 
			<li>Ability to download and resize uploaded avatars.</li> 
			<li>Personal text, avatar, signature, and all the niceties of forums can be used and are kept up to date in all your posts.</li> 
 
		</ul> 
 
		<h3>User Resources</h3> 
		<ul class="features"> 
			<li>Icons for topics you've posted to.</li> 
			<li class="more"><strong>Show new replies to <em>your</em> posts.</strong></li> 
 
			<li>Collapsible 'Additional Options' on post screen.</li> 
			<li>Ability to view most recent messages.</li> 
			<li>List all topics that have new replies since your last visit.</li> 
			<li>See who is browsing the same boards or topics as you.</li> 
			<li>Topics that span multiple pages have the page numbers listed as well as an &quot;all&quot; link.</li> 
 
		</ul>

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