Forum Bulletin Board

Forum Manager Features

What is Forum Manager?
Forum Manager is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable forum/bulletin board package. It has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, Forum Manager is the ideal community solution for all web sites.

Key Features
Supports popular database servers
Unlimited forums and posts
Multiple language interface
Private or public forums
Powerful search utility
Private messaging system
Complete customization with templates

We install Forum Manager on our MySQL database server and integrate it to your web site. MySQL server is one of the most powerful database servers in the world.

Security

• Designed with security as a priority
• Powerful and extensive authorization system
• Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
• Support for both cookie and URL-based sessions

Unlimited Forums & Categories

• Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups
• Powerful search facility

Posting Messages

• Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
• Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
• Polls can be simply added to posts
• Email notification of replies to your topics
• Powerful topic subscription capability
• Original emoticons to portray emotions

Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions

• Powerful forum, user and group permission management
• Control forum access to specified user groups
• Control all aspects of the posting experience
• Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options

Member Features

• Unlimited members
• Personal profile creation
• Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
• Email-like private messaging system
• Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars

Moderation Features

• Topic editing
• Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
• Topic splitting
• Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis

Easy to Use Administration Center

• General configuration
• Forum & category setup
• Easy database backup and restore
• Disallowed usernames
• User authorization
• Word censoring
• Complete member management
• Emoticon setup
• Optional new post verification
• Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
• IP tracking of posts and posters
• Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator

Style and Customization

• Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
• Templates separated from the PHP code so that new layouts can easily be created or integrated with your current site design
• Complete control of fonts and colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)
• Active community creating add-ons and specialized modifications
• Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C