Software Details:
Version: 2.0.9 / 1.1.19 / 2.1 beta1
Upload Date: 13 Apr 15
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 67
Size: 1924 Kb
It includes many custom templates for a personal and professional design of the message boards.
SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database.
It is designed to provide all the features needed from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server.
Features:
- General Features:
- Admin dashboard
- Comprehensive template system.
- Advanced permission and user management.
- Supports multiple languages at once.
- Open and well-documented source code.
- Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from the last visit.
- Designed for optimal performance and scalability.
- Multi-media output. (XHTML, XML, RSS, WAP)
- Multi-language support from a large community.
- Package manager that automatically installs or uninstalls mods (also known as hacks.)
- Security:
- All actions seamlessly require a session based authorization code.
- Administrative actions require the user's password (and do not rely solely on cookies.)
- Major actions are time and IP locked, preventing 'hammering'.
- The number of login attempts from a certain IP can be limited and time locked.
- Forum Settings:
- Ability to display page creation time and query count per page.
- Put a board into maintenance mode, allowing only admins to login.
- Word censoring, either full word or partial.
- Ability to break up long words.
- Boards and Categories
- Group boards into collapsible categories.
- Set categories as non-collapsible.
- Reorder boards within categories, or reorder categories.
- Create child boards under other boards. (sub boards)
- Assign moderators to boards.
- Allow certain membergroups to access a board, including guests only.
- Configure permissions for each membergroup on the board level.
- Ability to indicate new posts to child boards but nothing new in parent.
- Member Registration;
- Require registration before forum entrance.
- Require a user to agree to terms before they register.
- Disable member registration completely (allowing only moderators to register people).
- Require email authentication by sending an authentication link.
- Require a moderator to approve registration.
- Register new members from the admin center.
- Member Navigation and Authentication
- Several security checks during navigation.
- Password reminder option, by email with confirmation. (doesn't automatically reset the password.)
- Both cookie and session based authentication (works without cookies.)
- Cookies can be set local to a path, global to all subdomains, or normally.
- Adjustable expiration time for authentication cookies.
- Member Tracking and Tracing
- Sortable and searchable public memberlist (accessible by a permission.)
- Powerful sortable and searchable admin memberlist.
- Show all (error) messages and IPs made by a member. (track user)
- Show all (error) messages from an IP address or range. (track IP)
- See who's doing what (accessible by permission.)
- Statistics:
- Several board statistics (accessible by permission.)
- Tracking of member's online time in seconds.
- Tracking of topics, messages, new members, and hits per day.
- Individual member statistics accessible from their profile.
- News and Announcements
- Ability to create announcement boards (members receive a notification of topics automatically.)
- Member option to disable receiving announcements.
- Email or private message to the members by membergroup.
- Show a news ticker or news fader.
- Communication
- Ability to choose sendmail or SMTP (with or without authentication.)
- Ability to send a topic to a friend.
- Ability to view a "printer friendly" version of topics.
- Membergroups:
- Create membergroups to group members on permissions, access rights, and/or appearance.
- Assign several membergroups to a single member, with one membergroup as the primary group.
- Define membergroups that are auto-assigned based on the amount of posts a user has.
- Determine the maximum number of personal messages a membergroup is allowed to have by group.
- Assign graphical symbol(s) to a membergroup by primary group.
- Determine which membergroups are allowed to access a board.
- Banning:
- Ban members based on their username, email address, IP address or hostname.
- Support of wildcards for email address, IP address, and hostname.
- Include a ban reason (viewable for the banned user).
- Include a ban note (only viewable by the admins).
- Chose between full ban, 'no post' ban, or registration ban.
- Include an expiration time for bans.
What is new in this release:
- This patch focuses on fixing a few memory issues caused by some of the changes in 2.0.7, as well as fixing a crucial bug which caused the boards to appear in a seemingly random order for forums running on MySQL version 5.6 and above.
- It also fixes a rare bug that could cause a database error when invalid data is passed to the memberlist search form.
What is new in version 2.0.6 / 1.1.19:
- Several security issues were identified in both release lines and have been addressed with this patch.
What is new in version 2.0.5:
- A critical security patch.
What is new in version 2.0.4 / 1.1.17:
- A few critical security issues have been identified in the two maintained versions and are fixed with this update.
What is new in version 2.0.3 / 1.1.17:
- A security patch with version numbers: SMF 1.1.17 and SMF 2.0.3.
What is new in version 2.0.2 / 1.1.16:
- SMF 1.1.16 and SMF 2.0.2 contain security patches.
- A few bug fixes for SMF 2.0.x are also available with the patch.
What is new in version 2.0.1:
- A sensitive token was sent in the URL, allowing CSRF vulnerability (ModerationCenter.php).
- Html entities fixes for spoofing and injection prevention. (Load.php, Subs-Members.php).
- Fix undefined index (ManageMaintenance.php).
- Some versions may not contain a minor type. (Subs-Package.php).
- Some upgrades could fail due to file hash not existing in the attachments table. (upgrade_2-0_mysql.sql).
What is new in version 2.0:
- Fixes to login protection system
- Real name spoofing prevention
- MySQL 5.5 compatibility fixes
- Several PostgreSQL related fixes
- Fixes to integration hooks
- Several user interface fixes
- Fixes related to member profile updates
- Fixes to upgrade scripts
Requirements:
- PHP 4.1.0 or higher
- MySQL 3.23.4 or higher
- 512 kilobytes of storage space in the database
- two and a half megabytes of storage space on the web server
- Apache or IIS
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