Forum Software Reviews

CMS / Blog software Integration

This information lists all blog and CMS softwares that can fully integrate a specified forum.

By integration, we mean that there is only one user base, the log in process must be the same (when a user is connected to the forum, it is automatically logged on the blog or CMS, and respectively)

You will generally find more information about forum integration by looking for a plugin of your CMS or blog solution. Some plugins contains a full installation of a forum software, but some others allow you to bind two existing installation. This solution is recommended, because you can update separately your softwares if one of them contains security issues.

• Drupal
• Joomla / Mambo
• Plone
• Dotclear
• WordPress

User base integration

Here is a list of existing integrations :

• LDAP
• NIS
• Active Directory
• System users
• To existing databases

Template Engine

This information is just for advanced webmasters who would like to know the inner technology used by a forum software. A template engine is in charge of rendering the website and merge the datas with the current theme (in fact the layout of the forum).

The template engines use a logical language to format and display datas, and this language is different in these engines. This information can determine the forum software choice if the webmaster has a preference for a template engine if it is known that a template engine is more powerful or faster than others.

Here is a list of existing template engines :

• PHPTemplate
• Smarty
• Velocity
• Freemarker
• Fast Template
• Custom

Web Services Supporting

Here is a list of existing remote access :

• No
• XML/RPC
• Web Services (WSDL)