Features

General Uses PHP and MySQL. Comprehensive template system. Advanced permission and user management.  Supports multiple languages at once. Open and well-documented source code. Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from your last visit.  Designed for optimal performance and scalability. Multi-media output. (XHTML, XML , <acronym title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS , <acronym title="Wireless Application Protocol">WAP )</li> Multi-language support from a large community.</li> Package manager that automatically installs or uninstalls mods (also known as hacks.) </li> Search: <ul> Search the entire forum, a category/board or within a topic.</li> Search within your personal messages.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> Security All actions seamlessly require a session based authorization code.</li> Administrative actions require the user's password (and do not rely solely on cookies.)</li> Major actions are time and IP locked, preventing 'hammering'. </li> The number of login attempts from a certain IP can be limited and time locked.</li> </ul> Forum Settings Ability to display page creation time and query count per page.</li> Put a board into maintenance mode, allowing only admins to login.</li> Word censoring, either full word or partial.</li> Ability to break up long words.</li> </ul> Boards and Categories Group boards into collapsible categories.</li> Set categories as non-collapsible.</li> Reorder boards within categories, or reorder categories.</li> Create child boards under other boards. (sub boards) </li> Assign moderators to boards.</li> Allow certain membergroups to access a board, including guests only .</li> <li> Configure permissions for each membergroup on the board level. </li> <li>Ability to indicate new posts to child boards but nothing new in parent.</li> </ul> Member Registration <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> Member Navigation and Authentication <li>Several security checks during navigation.</li> <li>Password reminder option, by email with confirmation. (doesn't automatically reset your password.)</li> Both cookie and session based authentication (works without cookies.) </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> Member Tracking and Tracing <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> Statistics <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> News and Announcements <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> Communication Ability to choose sendmail or SMTP (with or without authentication.) </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> Membergroups <li>Create membergroups to group members on permissions, access rights, and/or appearance.</li> Assign several membergroups to a single member, with one membergroup as the primary group. </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> Banning <li>Ban members based on their username, email address, IP address or hostname.</li> Support of wildcards for email address, IP address, and hostname. </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> Include an expiration time for bans. </li> </ul> External integration <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> Export forum data using XML/RSS <ul> <li>Latest members.</li> <li>News.</li> <li>Recent posts.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> Wireless access Support for WAP, WAP2 and I-mode protocols. </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> Theming and Templating <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> Members can choose which smiley set they wish to use (or none.) </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> Posting Features Spell Check. </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> 'Insert Quote' feature on posting screen to quickly quote previous replies. </li> </ul> Polls Can be added or removed to existing topics. </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> Attachments <li>Allowed on a per member group or board basis.</li> The filename can be encrypted to increase the security (so you can upload .php files, etc.) </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> Calendar Support <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> Moderation Tools <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> Ability to allow members to use moderation on just topics they posted. </li> <li>&quot;Report to moderator&quot; link.</li> <li>Delete or modify posts.</li> Ability to Merge/Split topics. </li> <li>Move or delete topics.</li> <li>Sticky or unsticky topics.</li> <li> Recycle bin/board for all deleted topics and posts. </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> User Profiles and User Options <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> Options to hide other members' avatars and signatures. </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> User Resources <li>Icons for topics you've posted to.</li> Show new replies to your posts. </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>