FUDForum Review - General Features & Requirements

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Web Site: http://www.fudforum.org
Download here: Download FUDForum
Community Forum: Support
Released under: GPL License.
Current version: 2.8.0 (February 22, 2009).
Sponsored By: Advanced Internet Designs Inc..
Price: Free.

From FUDForum website :

FUDforum is a highly customizable forum package, with a large feature set. The easy to use administration control panel allows the administrator to easily configure and control the many features available. The forum also includes an interactive help package, which helps to familiarize users with the full potential of FUDforum.

More details on FUDForum website.

Review Updates

  • March 10, 2009: This review has been updated for the 2.8.0 release of FUDForum.

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Operating Systems Details
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP
Web Server Details
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
  • Microsoft IIS
Languages Details
Development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Systems that store forum datas.
  • MySQL
  • Postgresql
  • SQLite
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
  • Mozilla Firefox 3
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Mozilla Firefox 1
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Konqueror
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Internet Explorer 6
  • Chrome
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies Details
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
  • HTML and Javascript
Localization Details
Languages supported by FUDForum.
Yes Yes.
  • English
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

FUDForum is a classical forum software, and can be installed on LAMP server or Microsoft IIS, with a MySQL backend and a PHP extension.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat/Threaded
Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
No.
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
Yes Yes
Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
  • Forum Categories
  • Trashcan Forum
Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
Yes Yes
Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
No No
Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
No No
Posts
Emoticons Details Yes Yes
Attachments Details
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes
Post Editing Form Details
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Rich Text Editor
Post Editing Format Details
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • HTML
  • BBCode
Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes
Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
Yes Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
Unknown Unknown

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
No.
Private Messages Details
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
Yes Yes
Instant Messaging Details
Users can communicate in the forum like in other IM softwares (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM,...)
No No
Calendar Details No No
Poll Creation Details Yes Yes
Users List Details
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
Yes Yes
Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
Yes Yes
RSS/Atom Syndication Details
New posts and threads available using aggregators (represented by the Syndicate icon)
RSS 2.0
Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
No No
Remote Control Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
Yes Yes

To enable Friendly URLs, simply set the PATH_INFO setting to true (Global Configuration / General Settings) and use a template based on the path_info feature.

 
 
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