Το SMF είναι ένα πολύ ευέλικτο λογισμικό για φόρουμ. Έχει πολλές δυνατότητες, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των παρακάτω:

Γενικά

• Χρησιμοποιεί PHP και ένα σύστημα βάσης δεδομένων: MySQL, PostgreSQL ή SQLite.
• Εκτεταμένο σύστημα προτύπων.
• Εξελιγμένο σύστημα διαχείρισης δικαιωμάτων και χρηστών.
• Υποστηρίζει την σύγχρονη χρήση πολλών γλωσσών.
• Ανοιχτός και καλά τεκμηριωμένος πηγαίος κώδικας.
• Παρακολούθηση παλαιών και νέων μη αναγνωσμένων θεμάτων, όχι μόνο από την τελευταία επίσκεψη.
• Σχεδιασμένο για ιδανική απόδοση και επεκτασιμότητα.
• Παροχή σε πολυμέσα: XHTML, XML, RSS, WAP
• Υποστήριξη σε πολλές γλώσσες από μια μεγάλη κοινότητα.
• Διαχειριστής πακέτων που εγκαθιστά ή απεγκαθιστά αυτόματα mods (γνωστά επίσης και ως πακέτα.)
• Αναζήτηση:
  • Αναζήτηση σ' ολόκληρο το φόρουμ, σε κατηγορία/πίνακα ή μέσα σε ένα θέμα.
  • Αναζήτηση στα προσωπικά σας μηνύματα.

Security

• All actions seamlessly require a session based authorization code.
• Administrative actions require the user's password (and do not rely solely on cookies.)
• Major actions are time and IP locked, preventing 'hammering'.
• The number of login attempts from a certain IP can be limited and time locked.

Ρυθμίσεις φόρουμ

• Ικανότητα εμφάνισης χρόνου δημιουργίας και αριθμού ερωτημάτων ανά σελίδα.
• Τοποθέτηση του φόρουμ σε κατάσταση συντήρησης, επιτρέποντας μόνο στους διαχειριστές την σύνδεση.
• Λογοκρισία λέξεων, ολόκληρων ή τμημάτων.
• Ικανότητα κατάτμησης μεγάλων λέξεων.

Πίνακες και κατηγορίες

• Ομαδοποίηση πινάκων σε κατηγορίες που μπορούν να συμπτύσσονται.
• Τοποθέτηση κατηγοριών ως μη πτυσσόμενες.
• Αναταξινόμηση πινάκων στις κατηγορίες ή αναταξινόμηση κατηγοριών.
• Δημιουργία θυγατρικών πινάκων κάτω από άλλους πίνακες. (υποπίνακες)
• Τοποθέτηση συντονιστών στους πίνακες.
• Δυνατότητα να επιτρέπεται για ορισμένες μόνο ομάδες μελών να έχουν πρόσβαση σε ένα πίνακα, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των επισκεπτών.
• Διαμόρφωση δικαιωμάτων για κάθε ομάδα μελών σε επίπεδο πίνακα.
• Ικανότητα ανάδειξης νέων μηνυμάτων σε θυγατρικούς πίνακες χωρίς τίποτα νέο στον γονικό.

Member Registration

• Require registration before forum entrance.
• Require a user to agree to terms before they register.
• Disable member registration completely (allowing only moderators to register people).
• Require email authentication by sending an authentication link.
• Require a moderator to approve registration.
• Register new members from the admin center.

Member Navigation and Authentication

• Several security checks during navigation.
• Password reminder option, by email with confirmation. (doesn't automatically reset your password.)
• Both cookie and session based authentication (works without cookies.)
• Cookies can be set local to a path, global to all subdomains, or normally.
• Adjustable expiration time for authentication cookies.

Member Tracking and Tracing

• Sortable and searchable public memberlist (accessible by a permission.)
• Powerful sortable and searchable admin memberlist.
• Show all (error) messages and IPs made by a member. (track user)
• Show all (error) messages from an IP address or range. (track IP)
• See who's doing what (accessible by permission.)

Statistics

• Several board statistics (accessible by permission.)
• Tracking of member's online time in seconds.
• Tracking of topics, messages, new members, and hits per day.
• Individual member statistics accessible from their profile.

News and Announcements

• Ability to create announcement boards (members receive a notification of topics automatically.)
• Member option to disable receiving announcements.
• Email or private message your members by membergroup.
• Show a news ticker or news fader.

Communication

• Ability to choose sendmail or SMTP (with or without authentication.)
• Ability to send a topic to a friend.
• Ability to view a "printer friendly" version of topics.

Membergroups

• Create membergroups to group members on permissions, access rights, and/or appearance.
• Assign several membergroups to a single member, with one membergroup as the primary group.
• Define membergroups that are auto-assigned based on the amount of posts a user has.
• Determine the maximum number of personal messages a membergroup is allowed to have by group.
• Assign graphical symbol(s) to a membergroup - by primary group.
• Determine which membergroups are allowed to access a board.

Banning

• Ban members based on their username, email address, IP address or hostname.
• Support of wildcards for email address, IP address, and hostname.
• Include a ban reason (viewable for the banned user).
• Include a ban note (only viewable by the admins).
• Chose between full ban, 'no post' ban, or registration ban.
• Include an expiration time for bans.

Εξωτερική ενσωμάτωση

• Ενσωμάτωση τμημάτων του λογισμικού του φόρουμ σε ένα υπάρχοντα ιστότοπο με χρήση SSI ή PHP.
• Πρόσφατα θέματα ή δημοσιεύσεις.
• Πρόσφατες δημοσιεύσεις νέων σε ένα πίνακα.
• Πρόσφατες ψηφοφορίες.

Εξαγωγή δεδομένων του φόρουμ με χρήση XML / RSS

• Πρόσφατα μέλη.
• Νέα.
• Πρόσφατες δημοσιεύσεις.

Wireless access

• Support for WAP, WAP2 and I-mode protocols.
• Browse through boards/topics/messages with reduced page size.
• Ability to login and logout (not with WAP 1.)
• Ability to see new topics/boards with new replies.
• Ability to jump to first unread reply.
• Ability to post new messages (not with WAP 1.)

Theming and Templating

• Ability to allow or disallow your users to select their own theme.
• Ability to reset all of your members to a certain theme.
• Ability to install a new theme via your administration center.
• Default templates are XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0 compliant.
• Admin can add smileys and smiley sets.
• Members can choose which smiley set they wish to use (or none.)
• Themes can be installed by way of the "latest and greatest themes" panel.
• SSI can have and show layers and the like from the template system.

Posting Features

• Spell Check.
• Quick Reply
  • Members can disable it or collapse it.
  • Can be used with "Quote".
  • Also contains "Spell Check".
• Vast number of "bulletin board codes" to use (including rtl, acronym, and others.)
• Optional editing grace period before a post is shown as modified.
• Insert Quote feature on posting screen to quickly quote previous replies.

Polls

• Can be added or removed to existing topics.
• Ability to set expiration date.
• Ability to hide results till expiration of poll.
• Ability to hide results until after people have voted.
• Ability to determine how many votes a user may cast.
• Polls can have up to 256 options.

Attachments

• Allowed on a per member group or board basis.
• The filename is hashed to increase the security (so you can upload .php files, etc.)
• Optional restriction on what filetypes may be uploaded.
• Ability to restrict such that only registered members can view them (disables hotlinking, mostly.)
• Images can be embedded into posts.

Calendar Support

• Shows Birthdays, Events and Holidays.
• Display calendar information on board index.
• Link an existing topic to the calendar.
• Allow only certain members/groups post events.
• Event poster can edit event.
• Events can span multiple days.

Moderation Tools

• Ability to lock and unlock a topic.
• Topics which are locked by an administrator can not unlocked by anyone else.
• Ability to allow members to use moderation on just topics they posted.
• Report to moderator" link.
• Delete or modify posts.
• Ability to Merge/Split topics.
• Move or delete topics.
• Sticky or unsticky topics.
• Recycle bin/board for all deleted topics and posts.
• Moderation log which shows moderation activity and disallows log removal outside of 1 day.
• AJAX editing:
  • Edit a post without page reloads.
  • Double click to edit topic subjects on message index.

User Profiles and User Options

• Ability to hide your email address from the public.
• Select their favorite theme among the activated forum themes.
• Select their smiley set from the ones available.
• Email notification
• New topics per board.
• Single topics.
• Private messages.
• Login with 'invisible' mode.
• Options to hide other members' avatars and signatures.
• Ability to download and resize uploaded avatars.
• Personal text, avatar, signature, and all the niceties of forums can be used and are kept up to date in all your posts.

User Resources

• Icons for topics you've posted to.
• Show new replies to your posts.
• Collapsible 'Additional Options' on post screen.
• Ability to view most recent messages.
• List all topics that have new replies since your last visit.
• See who is browsing the same boards or topics as you.
• Topics that span multiple pages have the page numbers listed as well as an "all" link.

Other features

• Several forum statistics
• List of users online.
• The menu bar.
• News.
• Search.
• Login/logout.
• Today's events/birthdays/holidays.

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