MwForum
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| mwForum | |
 A default installation of mwForum 2.6 |
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| Developer: | Markus Wichitill |
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| Latest release: | 2.10.2 / 2007-01-14 |
| OS: | Any OS with Perl and a web server |
| Platform: | Perl with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite |
| Use: | Forum software |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | www.mwforum.org |
- The correct title of this article is mwForum. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
mwForum is an open source forum system. mwForum is based on Perl CGI scripts, uses a MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite database management system and is compatible with mod_perl 1.0 and 2.0 for optimal performance. mwForum's design goals are comfortable operation and administration, stability, security and speed, a professional and consistent look, and lean and clean code to make customization easy.
[edit] Features
This is an overview of the main features of mwForum, not a complete list.
- Forum
- Supports Perl CGI, mod_perl 1.x and 2.x.
- Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases
- Configurable via online form
- Valid HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML 1.1
- Styling via CSS stylesheets, multiple user-selectable styles
- Language modules, user-selectable
- Unicode/UTF-8 support
- Searching, optionally with fulltext index
- Private messages with email notifications
- Chat page
- Atom and RSS feeds
- Database event log, with configurable log level
- Plugin interfaces: authen, authz, uploading, event, email, logging
- OpenPGP email encryption
- Focus on performance and security over feature-bloat
- Boards (sections inside the forum)
- Grouping by collapsible categories
- Email digest subscriptions
- Jump-to-board dropdown list
- Read access: everybody, registered users, specific users or groups
- Write access: everybody, registered users, specific users or groups
- Moderated boards where only approved posts are visible
- Anonymous posting by registered users
- Posting by unregistered users
- Topics
- Threaded or unthreaded
- Polls, with single or multiple votes per poll
- Manual and auto-locking
- Auto-expiration
- Email notifications for new replies
- Collapsible branches in threaded topics
- Moving and deleting of whole topics and topic branches
- Topic merging
- Topic icons
- Posts
- Editing, with optional time limitation
- Quoting in good old email/news style
- Post preview
- Email reply notifications
- File attachments, with configurable size limit
- Reporting of rule-violating posts
- Personal ToDo lists of posts for later review
- Tracking of which posts are new/old in current session
- Tracking of which posts are unread/read independent of session
- Jumping from new/unread posts to next new/unread in threaded topics
- Overview pages containing all new and all unread posts, per board or for whole forum
- Smileys, with unobtrusive default images
- Markup [tags] with insertion buttons, no HTML for security reasons
- Configurable :tags: (for more smileys etc.)
- Auto-linking of URLs
- Censor words
- Users
- User info page with public profile
- Configurable user profile fields
- Avatars, uploaded and gallery, users can disable display
- Signatures, short & simple or long incl. markup, users can disable display
- User ignore function for private messages and public posts
- Admin-configurable user titles
- Ranks based on post count
- Display of newest and online users on main page
- Banning, per account or IP
- Auto-expiration, after x days absence and/or if never logged in
- Flood protection by x seconds pause between posts
- User list for admins, can display all user database fields
- User list for all users with public info
- User search for admins
- Bounced email filter
- GeoIP country detection
- Blogs
- Cookie-based and cookie-less login
- Birthdays
- Group permissions
