Features

JForum has a growing number of features, with a lot more being asked and developed each day. Here you will find a list of the most useful and common features currently available.

Installation

Easy installation through graphical web interface

General

    <li>Unlimited forums, categories, and topics</li>
    <li>Support for several popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and HSQLDB</li>
    <li>Karma - Rate messages and users</li>
    <li>Bookmarks - save your favourite threads and share with other users</li>
    <li>Easy migration from phpBB </li>
    <li>Friendly URLs (no more long and hard-to-remember links!)</li>
    <li>Listing of currently online users</li>
    <li>Listing of the Most Recent topics from the whole forum</li>
    <li>Fast and scalable, perfect for busy sites - unlike most message board systems, JForum caches frequently accessed data to avoid excessive querying of the database</li>
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Posting Messages

    <li>File Attachments, with fully customizable options</li>
    <li>HTML and BBCode support</li>
    <li>Automatic parsing of links in messages</li>
    <li>Integrated private message system</li>
    <li>Email notifications for topics on private messages</li>
    <li>Unlimited emoticons, easily administered via a configuration panel</li>
    <li>RSS syndication</li>
    <li>Sticky topics and announcements</li>
    <li>Post preview</li>

Moderation

    <li>Easy to moderate</li>
    <li>Moderated Categories and Forums - Administrators may allow new messages be posted only after the approval of some moderator or administrator </li>
    <li>Topics can be locked/unlocked and moved between forums</li>
    <li>Topics can be moved between forums</li>

Permissions & Security

Read-only forums - Forums where is not possible to post new messages, just reading

    <li>Reply-only forums - Forums where only reply to existing posts are allowed</li>
    <li>Robust security system</li>
    <li>Forum moderators can be granted varying levels of control</li>
    <li>Advanced HTML filter, for increased security</li>

Customization & Extensiblity

    <li>Easy and fast development for any other data source</li>
    <li>Familiar and attractive layout</li>
    <li>Highly customized permission control, allowing fine control over access to any forum and category, by group and by user</li>
    <li>Easy to support new bbtags via a XML configuration file</li>
    <li>Uses the simple and powerful Freemarker templating system which allows unlimited control over layout and theming</li>
    <li>Supports individual themes/templates for users</li>
    <li>Support for different languages; easy to add new languages</li>

Users

    <li>Member Listing</li>
    <li>User defined avatars</li>
    <li>User banning</li>
    <li>Unlimited users, groups, and groups per user</li>
    <li>User profile</li>
    <li>User ranks</li>
    <li>Language preferences may be set on a per user basis</li>
    <li>Remembers last read messages and tracks new posts</li>