Phorum Review - Moderation, Admin & Installation | Forum Software Reviews

Show »

Pros & Cons

Live Demonstration

Phorum Live Demonstration

Explore the Demo »

Siteground

Compare with:

	Phorum	No Selection.
Plugins	Yes	-
Themes	Yes	-
Captcha	Plugin	-
Syndication		-
Avatars	Plugin	-
Attachments	Yes	-
Emoticons	Yes	-
Quoting	Yes	-
Rating	Plugin	-
Calendar	Plugin	-
Polls	Plugin	-
PM	Yes	-
IM	No	-

Full Comparison »

Phorum Review - Moderation, Admin & Installation

Fri March 20, 2009 10:24 |

Moderation & Users Management

Moderation & Threads Management
	Moderation How moderation is supported.	No.
	Moderator per section	No
	Global Moderator	No
	Move Threads Move Threads from Topics	Yes
	Shadow Topics When a thread is moved, the previous position is kept in order to inform users of this modification.	No
	Close/Lock Threads Close/Lock Problematic Threads	Yes

Users Management
User Groups Organize and define groups of users, and apply different actions and settings on them. Common Groups: Guests, Members, Moderators, Administrators,...	Yes
User Registration	No.
Limit Features for new users By limitating possible actions of new members with a minimum number of interesting posts, it ensures that a user will not spam with private messages other members, create stupid polls or access to some important forum categories (announcements, community news,...) The signature or the WWW address fields (where many members love to put their own website) could even follow the same rules, and be displayed only after, for example, 10 valid posts. Click for more information... Features are limited if a user has created a small number of posts.	-
Guest Posting This option is useful for webmaster who wants to allow non logged users to post messages to their forum. This can be however dangerous if the forum is being attacked by spam bots. Click for more information...	Yes
Several Administrators	Yes
Send Warnings to Users Inform users by email or PM that they infringe the board rules, and could be excluded for such behavior.	No
Forum/Section Restricted Access ACL could be use to determine if a user or a group of users can access (in read only, post message) to some sections and topics.	Yes
User Banishment User banishment is an option that allows administrators remove posting rights to users that do not respect the rules of the community. This is also really useful if you are not sure that a user has only subscribed to promote its own website or spam the users of your community. Click for more information...	Yes

Administration & Support

Some details about security capacities of Phorum.

Installation & Upgrading
Installation Method How this forum software could be installed.	Installation Wizard
Upgrading Method How this forum software could be upgraded.	Upgrade Wizard
Updates Notifications The Admin Panel informs you when a new version is released.	Yes
Forum Migration Convert an existing forum to Phorum.	-.

Database Management
Backup Database Backup forum datas that you could store somewhere else.	No
Prune Database Remove old and unused datas from your forum.	Yes
Restore Database Restore a backup of your database if the previous install crashed.	No

Administration Tools
Statistics Statistics about posts count, users, traffic...	Plugin	Error/Notice Log Viewer Forum Logs could be consulted.	Plugin
Tasks Scheduler Maintenance tasks are regularly launched and could be scheduled.	-	Mass Mailing Send an email (newsletters, advertisements, information,...) to all users.	Yes
Cache System Cache pages to optimize bandwidth and load times.	-	Template Engine 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) Examples: Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Plone, Dotclear, WordPress, eGroupWare, e107, XOOPs, iGaming CMS. Click for more information... It is easier to theme a forum using a known template engine (more docs & examples,...).	Custom Template Engine

W3C Norms & Accessibility

Norms & Accessibility
HTML / XHTML Markup Possible HTML and XHTML norms. Examples: HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01, Frameset HTML, XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.1 Strict, XHTML 1.1 Transitional, XML/XSL. Click for more information... See W3C HTML Definition.	XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Click to see if it respects HTML norms.
CSS Stylesheets The forum software could be compatible with the currently CSS norms. Examples: CSS 1, CSS 2, CSS 3, CSS with extensions. Click for more information... See W3C CSS Definition.	CSS 2. Click to see if it respects CSS norms.
Accessibility (WAI) Existing Levels of Accessibility. Examples: A, AA, AAA. Click for more information... Web Accessibility ensures that the forum is usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.	Conformance to A level.
UTF-8 Support Default encoding used to support all locales and countries.	Yes
Conformance to W3C Norms If the software respects norms, then links on W3C images (i.e. : of the review must not return errors. Click for more information... Does Phorum correctly follow (X)HTML and CSS norms?	Yes.

Norms are correctly respected by Phorum, and theme creation is quite easy (mainly simple CSS modifications).

Read 24 Comments...

PHP Free Forums				PHP (Commercial)		Forum Hosting		Java / JEE	Microsoft .Net
bbPress Beehive Forum Drupal Forum esoTalk Extreme Message Board FluxBB Fruit Show FUDForum	IceBB Joomla Forum MiniBB MyBB MyProBB Phorum PhpBB 2 PhpBB 3	PunBB Quicksilver Forums SEO-Board Simple Machines 1.1 Simple Machines 2 Unclassified NewsBoard UseBB Vanilla	Viscacha XennoBB	Advanced Electron Forum IP.Board MesDiscussions UBB.threads UltraBB vBulletin 3.8 vBulletin 4 Woltlab Burning Board	WowBB	BulletinBoards Forumotion FreeForums Google Groups Lefora Nabble Tal.ki Website Toolbox	ZetaBoards Zoho Discussions	JavaBB JForum jGossip JsForum MVN Forum Nemesis Forum SKForum Yazd	NearForums Yet Another Forum
									Perl
									E-Blah YaBB

Follow us:

RSS -

About Us - Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Credits - Review Badges - Next Reviews

Copyright © 2006 - 2010 Forum Software Reviews.