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PHORUM MESSAGE BOARD

Phorum is a web based message board written in PHP. Phorum is designed with high-availability and visitor ease of use in mind. Features such as mailing list integration, easy customization and simple installation make Phorum a powerful add-in to any website.

1. Multiple forums on one engine. You can create different header, footer, censor, and bad* files for different forums. Simply fill in 'Config Suffix' when creating your forums with a string and then create files named header_suffix.inc where suffix is the string you gave the admin when creating the forum.

2. Database independence. Phorum currently supports MySQL and PostgreSQL.

3. Multi-leveled threading. This is enabled by default, but can be set off if desired on a forum by forum basis. Select the forum you want to enable it for, then select 'Edit Properties'. Change Thread Type from Multiple Levels to Single Level

4. Emailing readers when replies are posted to a thread.

5. Phorum Code and automatic URL linking. As of Phorum 3.3.2, users can use Phorum Code to spice up their posts. Phorum Code is much like the standard way many message board systems mark up posts. Examples:

• [url]http://phorum.org[/url] Creates a url that is linked.
• [url=http://phorum.org]phorum.org[/url] Links the text 'phorum.org' to http://phorum.org.
• [email]email@address.com[/email] Creates a linked email address
• [img]http://phorum.org/logo.gif[/img] Creates an image tag that will show that image.
• [b]Bold Text[/b] [u]Underlined Text[/u] [i]Italicized Text[/i] Makes the text bold, underlined, or italicized.
• [center]Centered Text[/center] Centers text.
• [quote]Does this quote text?[/quote] This will indent the text inside the tags.

Tags can be combined: [url=http://phorum.org][img]http://phorum.org/logo.gif[/img][/url]

Phorum will also automatically link urls that are inside <>. <http://phorum.org/>

6. Take Phorum up and down from the admin. This is great for maintenence. Select 'Down Phorum' from the main menu, enter the master password and hit 'Login'. All requests to the Phorum will now be sent to down.php. To bring Phorum back up, select 'Up Phorum' from the main menu, enter the master password and hit 'Login'.

7. Moderator Privileges. You can give a user moderator privileges through the useradmin. He can edit and delete posts, move and close threads then.

8. index, list, read, post, down, and violation file names as well as the extension are defined as variables. This can be changed in the
'Master Settings' section of the admin. NOTE: THIS DOES NOT CHANGE THE FILE NAMES. YOU MUST DO THIS MANUALLY.

9. User Banning. You can ban users by email, name, or their IP/HOST. See include/bad_*.php for details of use. These can be created for each forum. See number 1 for details.

10. Allows for censored posting. There are instructions in censor.php as to how to use it. By default the f word and sh-t are censored for example.

11. Allows for disallowing service to a given author, email or domain. Entries in bad_names.php, bad_hosts.php and bad_emails.php will be checked for when a message is posted. If any are present, the user will be forwarded to violation.php. There are instructions in those files as to how to use them.

12. Localized text (Multi-lingual). Additional language files are available at http://www.phorum.org/local.php

13. Ability to quote text from original message. This is not available if viewing the messages in "Flat View".

14. Colors, table sizes configurable in Admin

15. Control number of messages displayed in main list.

16. Edit a post or delete entire threads or individual messages.

17. Search Engine

18. Collapsible threads. This can be defaulted on or off in the forum admin section.

19. Float-To-Top, move the threads with the most current answers to the top (thread-type)

20. User-levels and user-groups, you can assign a user to groups and you can specify which groups are allowed to access the forum, the same for permission levels.

21. User-specifyable language, a user can define his preferred language for a forum. This is only used to change the navigation of a forum if the administrator allows this through the properties.

22. Smiley-Plugin, the ability to define smiley-replacements in the forum.

23. Each forum can be defined to be shown in each subfolder.