FUDForum Review

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Install: Negative (Hard) — Admin: PositivePositive (Easy)
Use: PositivePositive (Easy) — Themes: Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullFullHalfNoneNone — Users : FullFullHalfNoneNone (Rate it)
By lastnico, August 23, 2006 - 12:15 |

Brief Description of FUDForum

Released under : GPL License.
Current version : 2.7.7 (April 23, 2007).
Live Demonstration : FUDForum Demo.
Web Site : http://www.fudforum.org
Download here : FUDForum.
Installation : Negative (Hard)
Administration : PositivePositive (Easy)
Forum Using : PositivePositive (Easy)
Our Opinion : FullFullHalfNoneNone
Users : FullFullHalfNoneNone (Rate it)
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From FUDForum web site :

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.

Server Architecture

Features Details
Operating Systems Details
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP
Web Server Details
Web servers provide the forum software to the users.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
  • Microsoft IIS
Languages Details
Main development language.
  • PHP 4
Databases Details
Systems storing forum datas.
  • MySQL
  • Postgresql

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

W3C Norms and Accessibility

Type Norms
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
All
Technologies or plugins required Details
The information helps you to know what the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
HTML and Javascript
HTML / XHTML Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those HTML norms.
Based on HTML 4.01.
HTML 4.01
Stylesheets (CSS) Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those CSS norms.
Based on CSS 1.
CSS 1
Accessibility (WAI) Details
No accessibility.
This software respects W3C Norms Details
Does this software correctly follows (X)HTML and CSS norms.
No No.
Localization Details
The forum software exists in several languages.
Yes Yes.

English

Technical Features

Technical Features Details
UTF-8 Support
Default encoding that could be used for all locales and countries.
Unknown Unknown
Installation Method
How this forum software could be installed
Advanced Wizard (remote copy,...)
Upgrade Method
How this forum software could be upgraded
Advanced Wizard
CMS / Blog integration Details
Web publishing tools which can be integrated with this software.
Drupal
Users Database integration Details
This feature is useful when you would like to integrate your forum with an existing solution.
None
Template Engine Details
It is generally easier to theme a forum using a famous template engine (more docs, more examples,...)
Web Services / XML-RPC Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No

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