Open Source Living » Forums http://osliving.com Open Source resources, community and discussion. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:07:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Yet Another forum http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/yet-another-forum/ http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/yet-another-forum/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:48:53 +0000 admin http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/yet-another-forum/ YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

Its main features include the following: 100% C# ASP.NET ; Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 database support; User configurable cultures. See dates and numbers the way you are used to; Unlimited number of categories, forums and messages; Includes private messaging and private messaging notification features; Possibility to hide forums when user has no access; Unlimited user groups, with option to automatically promote users based on number of posts; Access rights based on groups; Polls can be added to posts; Administrators can mass email to all users or specific group; Template for easy integration with your current site design and more…

]]> http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/yet-another-forum/feed/ 0 PunBB http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/punbb/ http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/punbb/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:35:51 +0000 admin http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/punbb/ PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards.

PunBB has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages.

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Here are some of it’s core features:

Works on PHP 4.1 and up as well as MySQL 4.x and up!

Fast, secture and free.

Multi-level forums, polls, attachments, internal messaging.

Elegant administration center

Fully skinnable and comes packed with a skin importing / exporting system

Designed by Onelotus Creative

]]> http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/mytopix/feed/ 0 Vanilla http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/vanilla/ http://osliving.com/content-management/forums/vanilla/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:26:48 +0000 admin http://osliving.com/home/content-management/forums/vanilla/ Vanilla is W3C standards compliant forum software with valid XHTML and CSS. It includes a templating system which allows Vanilla to be easily integrated into an existing site layout.

Vanilla’s most ground-breaking feature is the framework upon which it is built: the Lussumo Framework.

This framework allows developers to create and add new extensions to the core software.

The basic installation of Vanilla comes with very few features, but there is an add-on site at http://lussumo.com/addons where you can get all of the latest new extensions.

Here are some of the most popular extensions for Vanilla:

RSS and Atom feeds

Whispers, for private conversations.

Intelligent search and search bookmarking system, for users to bookmark their most used searches.

Search-engine friendly URLs

Forum announcements

Animations using JavaScript

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Some of its core features are as follows:

Fast and light, simple interface, customizable templates,
highly extensible through plugins, built in spam protection, RSS Feeds, easy integration with blogs.

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phpBB3 is the current release of the phpBB bulletin board system.It contains new features that are not found in its older sibling, phpBB2. phpBB3 also provides administrators with much more control over every aspect of the forum software, from how it is displayed to management of user and group permissions.

Some of phpBB3′s major features include:

Modular design for the Admin Control Panel, Moderator Control Panel, and User Control Panel.

Support for multiple database management systems, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Firebird.

Support for unlimited levels of subforums.

Ability to create custom-defined BBCode.

Ability to create custom profile fields.

Greatly expanded permissions system.

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