Phorum Review - Admin, Installation & Management

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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 Yes
Forum Migration
Is it possible to convert an old forum to Phorum?
Unknown Unknown.
Users Management
User Management Details
  • User Groups
  • Restricted access on specific forum
  • Multiple administrator allowed
  • Blacklist
  • IP Blocking
User Banishment Details Yes Yes
Mass Mailing
Send an email (newsletters, advertisements, information,...) to all users.
Yes Yes
Threads & Posts Management
Move Threads
Move Threads from Topics
Yes Yes
Close/Lock Threads
Close/Lock Problematic Threads
Yes Yes
Database Management
Backup Database
Backup forum datas that you could store somewhere else.
No No
Prune Database
Remove old and unused datas from your forum.
Yes Yes
Restore Database
Restore a backup of your database if the previous install crashed.
No No
Administration Tools
Statistics
Statistics about posts count, users, traffic...
Plugin Plugin
Error/Notice Log Viewer
Forum Logs could be consulted.
Plugin Plugin
Scheduled Tasks
Maintenance tasks are regularly launched and could be scheduled.
Unknown Unknown

W3C Norms & Accessibility

Norms & Accessibility
HTML / XHTML Details
Click on the image link to test that Phorum uses HTML norms.
Based on XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Stylesheets (CSS) Details
Click on the image link to test that Phorum uses CSS norms.
Based on CSS 2.
CSS 2
Accessibility (WAI) Details
Conformance to A level.
A
UTF-8 Support
Default encoding used to support all locales and countries.
Yes Yes
This software respects W3C Norms Details
Does Phorum correctly follow (X)HTML and CSS norms?
Yes Yes.

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

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