Beehive Forum Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Current version 0.9.1 (July 15, 2009).
Released under GPL License.
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Beehive Forum Features:

  • Frame-based layout, for easy navigation.
  • Reply-to-user posting and e-mail notification.
  • Powerful HTML posting, without security risks.
  • Extendable user profiles.
  • Flexible relationships system.
  • Private Messaging system.
  • Multiple style options, including dyslexia support.
  • Advanced word-filtering facility.
  • Comprehensive user permissions.
  • Full, easy to use admin tools.

Review Updates

  • March 9th, 2010: Review update with Beehive Forum 0.9.1.

Recommended Average Size of a Community

This chart represents the recommendation of an average community size hosted with Beehive Forum.

Beehive Forum
Community Size Average

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Server Technology
The technology on which this forum software is based on.
PHP
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
LinuxWindows XP
Web Servers
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
  • Microsoft IIS
Languages
Development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
  • MySQL
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
Mozilla FirefoxInternet Explorer
Google ChromeOpera
Apple SafariKonqueror
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
Javascript.
Languages supported by Beehive Forum.
Yes Yes.
Supported Languages:
English (American) English (American) English (British) English (British)
French French German German

Beehive Forum only works on a MySQL database, and does not use the PHP independent database connectivity API. This is not a specifical problem but more and more PHP softwares should really migrate to this system.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
No No
Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
  • Forum Categories
  • Sub Sections
Topic Tags
Could topics be organized by tags?
- -
Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
No No
Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
Yes Yes
Related Threads
List additional topics that may be related to the current one.
- -
Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
No No
Hidden Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
No No
Posts
Message Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Formatting Buttons
  • Preview Button
Emoticons Yes Yes
Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
No No
Image Attachment
How images can be attached and displayed in message posts.
No.
Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • Plain
  • HTML
Post by Email
Post to a topic directly from your email box.
- -
Message Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
Yes Yes Message Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes
Announcements
Administrators can post announcements that are displayed everywhere in the forum. It is even more powerful than a pinned topic.
- -

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
  • Portal
  • Website Home Page
Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
Yes Yes
Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
Yes Yes Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
Yes Yes
Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
No No RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
RSS 1.0
Calendar No No Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Yes Yes Friendly URLs
URLs are explicit and contains information about the topic (title, message,...). This is highly recommended for SEO purposes.
No No

Theming is possible using the theme generator provided by Administration page of Beehive Forum. This is in fact a simple CSS modification, which is really easy and fast to use.

 
 
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