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Fud
Forum |
FUDforum
is a robust, fully customizable and extremely scalable
forums package. It uses a powerful & speedy
combination of PHP & MySQL to create a highly
portable solution that can run on virtually any
operating system. This highly optimized application is
an ideal community solution for any website or company.
Released under the GPL license, FUDforum empowers you to
change the design of the forum and customize its code
base for your particular needs.
Having
technical or installation problems? Assistance with
FUDforum can be found on our support
forum or you can contact us via email,
well be happy to help you out. You may also want to take
a look at the user's
guide.
We also offer support contracts, take a look in our services
section if you are interested
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Features |
FUDforum
is a highly customizable forum package, with a
large feature set. The easy to use
administration control panel allows the
administrator to easily configure and control
the many features available. The forum also
includes an interactive help package, which
helps to familiarize users with the full
potential of FUDforum.
Here are some of the core features offered by
FUDforum:
- 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
- Threaded
View (by default standard flat view is
used)
- 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
FUDforum
also supports all the standard features you may
come to expect from a modern forum.
- 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.
Many
other smaller features are avaliable, however
they are too numerous to list here. It is the
goal of FUDforum to provide a complete and
robust forum package that can satisfy all of
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