mwForum
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 A default installation of mwForum 2.6 |
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| Developer(s) | Markus Wichitill |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.20.0 / 2009-12-16 |
| Written in | Perl, SQL |
| Operating system | Any |
| Type | Forum software |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.mwforum.org |
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
- Styling via CSS stylesheets, multiple user-selectable styles
- Language modules, user-selectable
- Unicode/UTF-8 support
- Searching, optionally with fulltext index
- Boards (sections inside the forum)
- Grouping by collapsible categories
- Email digest subscriptions
- Posting by unregistered users
- Topics
- Threaded or unthreaded
- Polls, with single or multiple votes per poll
- Manual and auto-locking
- Posts
- Editing, with optional time limitation
- Quoting in good old email/news style
- Configurable :tags: (for more smileys etc.)
- Auto-linking of URLs
- Censor words
- Users
- User info page with public profile
- Configurable user profile fields
