Features

Some of the features of bbBoard v2 include:

• Underage user/parental permission options - users who are under the age you specify either cannot register, or must have their parent/guardian complete a parental permission form.
• Prevent automated registrations (users must type in letters they see in an image while registering), and/or prevent automated posts (users must type in letters they see in an image while posting). You can choose to make users enter the image every time they post, only once per session, or never.
• [email] bbCode optionally produces an image of the email address rather than the address itself.
• Payaccess, allowing you to control registration/access by an external billing/signup script.
• User and Thread ratings.
• Threaded and Flat post modes.
• Various Frontends, including: Web, NNTP, WAP, Telnet, MSN Messenger and Retro. All of these Frontends allow users to view/make posts via their preferred method - whether that's in their web browser, on their mobile phone, or in an MSN window.
• Javascript folding of forums, plus easy access folding for various other features.
• Powerful search, allowing you to enter conventional keywords, required keywords, exact matches and words to exclude. You can search in the whole board, a particular forum, a particular thread, and/or by posts made by a particular user.
• "Am I a member here?" feature, allowing users to easily remind themselves if they have registered or not.
• Various Database Backends, including: mySQL, postgreSQL, Oracle, CSV and flat-file. Plus an easy interface to create your own Database Backend.
• Who's online for the whole board, in the current forum and in the current thread. The who's online includes the guests' browsers (or spider/bot type), with easy access to toggle Anonymous mode.
• Bidirectional sorting in many places.
• Report individual posts to mods/admins.
• Download thread, print thread and powerful forum/thread subscriptions - allowing you to receive Emails/PMs when a certain thread or forum is posted in, with a simple interface to remove/edit subscriptions.
• Support for table prefixes.
• If enabled, users may change their usernames and, if needed and enabled, completely delete their accounts.
• Addons, allowing you to create any additional forum type you wish using the existing member authentication/registration system.
• Users can choose between HTML, bbCode or Plain text when making a post. The admin has the ability to control who can use HTML in each forum.
• Simple registration, with user activation system to ensure valid e-mail addresses.
• Multiple banning options, including the ability to ban users by IP address, email address or simply by their username.
• Custom Fields, allowing you to add your own fields for users to fill in on the posting forms. Custom Fields can be required, optional, text boxes, select menus or radio buttons.
• Custom bbCodes, allowing you to create your own bbCodes for users to add in their posts, per-forum.
• Forum-specific emoticons, with a simple interface to add/remove/edit them.
• Board FAQs, giving you an easy, yet powerful, FAQ management system.
• Multiple different poll types, including: Regular, Multiple Choice, Rating and Custom Rating polls. Users can specify exactly who can vote in their poll, and optionally allow other users to add options to the poll. Polls can be added to any post - new thread or reply.
• Threaded PM system, with the ability to send PMs to multiple users at once, and everyone can see the replies. PMs can have attachments, and regular bbCode/Emoticon rules apply. PMs can be deleted or moved to different PM folders.
• Replies can be added simply with "Instant Reply".
• Multiple signature support allows you to use bbCode, HTML or plain text for your sigs, set a default sig, or use a random sig for each post.
• Rich template system, with options to create template sets (different templates that users can choose from), edit the header/footer HTML, and change all colors/images.
• User Console - add your favorite User Area buttons to the main page.
• Full abilities for the admin to edit all user details/settings and change/reset passwords.
• Simple forum and category reordering.
• Patch system, allowing simple patching of the source code which withstands release upgrades.
• Post Archiving, with powerful options to specify archive rules.
• Assign other admins and mods easily, with a full Moderator ACL to specify which forums and powers moderators have.
• Attach multiple files to each post, with admin options to specify exactly who can attach files in each forum. You can also link/show attachments wherever you need in your post with the [attachment] bbCode.
• Enter your birthday and any important events on the public calendar.
• Board/forum Maintenance Mode, locking out users while you perform maintenance, edit templates etc.
• Easy options to edit the board terms. Terms are shown on the registration page, and beside each post form.
• Bulk email and bulk PM your users.
• Bump and sink threads, allowing you to control their position in the thread list.
• Delete all posts made by a certain user, or all posts in a specific forum at the same time.
• Post Moderation, allowing you to review posts made by users before they are shown to the public. You can choose to moderate all posts, or just certain ones. Limited moderation can be controlled by a blacklist (Posts are not generally moderated, unless they contain certain words) or a whitelist (All posts are moderated, except those containing certain words).
• Copy single posts and entire threads.
• Either admin or user-specified Custom Titles, with the ability to replace/delete all if needed.
• User Files, giving users a place to upload images/files for their avatar/signatures/posts.
• The ability to enable, disable or completely delete a user.
• Full optional logging system, allowing you to log all events, all admin/mod events, or simply suspicious events such as incorrect passwords to a password-protected forum.
• First View option, allowing you to show a message to users on their first view of the board, or make guests register before they can view at all.
• Flood control, including a flood-ban system which will ban a user for a specified amount of time after repeatedly breaching the flood control limits.
• Allow users to edit their posts, and moderators to edit anyone's posts.
• Cumulative and total post count, with the admin ability to edit users' post counts.
• The ability to log out any user, or all users who haven't been active in a certain amount of time.
• Admin Password and Moderator Password security features, requiring admins/mods to input an additional admin/mod password to access admin events.
• Enable/Disable signatures and avatars per-forum, with the option of allowing specific users to use them even when disabled.
• Clone & Merge forums and threads.
• Password-protected forums, plus the ability to specify forum access by user type.
• "Goto Newest Post" and "Goto Unread Thread".
• Ignore Lists - add someone to your ignore list, and you won't see any of their posts or threads.
• View threads posted in the last 24 hours, since your last visit and the last users seen online.
• Lock and read-protect threads depending on user type - for example, you can make it so that you can't reply to a certain thread unless you're logged in.
• Simulate User - an admin ability to log in as any user (without knowing their password) to test out, see what they see, etc.
• Session-based login - choose how long you want to be logged in for.
• Mark all forums, a specific forum, or just a specific thread read/unread.
• Important (bold) threads and pinned threads allowing you to bring attention to special threads.
• "Thread Recommendations" and "Similar Threads" features.
• "Poll of the Moment" and "Poll Watching" abilities.
• Full memberlist and who's online.
• Subforums, to an infinite hierarchy.
• Move threads and single posts to different forums.
• Admin ability to register multiple users at the same time.
• User address book.
• Preview your posts/PMs.
• Show a list of all admins/moderators, with contact details if needed.
• Multiple Profanity Filters, allowing you to filter bad words in specific forums, or all over the board.
• View and disable your ratings.
• Option to remove all sigs in a certain thread.
• Search & Replace in all templates.
• Daylight Savings option, and complete Time Zone functionality, ensuring all dates/times are shown in the users' local time zones.
• "Retrieve Login" feature, enabling users to get back into their account if they don't remember their password or username.
• Split & Merge threads.
• User Levels, allowing you to add special images or "pips" depending on the number of posts.
• User Memos.
• Board Stats, with monthly figures for a range of statistics.

...And much more.

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