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

Unlimited forums, categories, and topics
Support for several popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLServer and HSQLDB
Karma - Rate messages and users
Bookmarks - save your favourite threads and share with other users
Easy migration from phpBB
Friendly URLs (no more long and hard-to-remember links!)
Listing of currently online users
Listing of the Most Recent topics from the whole forum
Fast and scalable, perfect for busy sites - unlike most message board systems, JForum caches frequently accessed data to avoid excessive querying of the database
Up to 3 banners can be displayed each at the top and/or at the bottom of pages
Easy and privacy-conscious sharing on the most popular social networks

Posting Messages

File Attachments, with fully customizable options
HTML and BBCode support
Automatic parsing of links in messages
Integrated private message system
Email notifications for topics on private messages
Unlimited emoticons (a.k.a smilies or emojis), administerable via a configuration panel
RSS syndication
Sticky topics and announcements
Post preview
Wiki topics that can't be replied to, but which can by edited by everyone
Watches (a.k.a notifications) can be set up for specific topics or entire forums

Moderation

Easy to moderate
Moderated Categories and Forums - Administrators may allow new messages be posted only after the approval of some moderator or administrator
Topics can be locked and unlocked
Topics can be moved between forums
Spam words or phrases can be set up that can't be used in posts

Permissions & Security

Read-only forums - Forums where is not possible to post new messages, just reading
Reply-only forums - Forums where only reply to existing posts are allowed
Robust security system
Forum moderators can be granted varying levels of control
Advanced HTML filter, for increased security

Customization & Extensiblity

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

Users

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