Phorum Review - Users, Security & Customization

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User Profiles & Options

Some details about what users can do and are able to use in Phorum.
User Profiles & Options
User Profile Details
User Information and Configuration.
Yes Yes
Avatars Details
Pictures of users, useful to easier identify their posts.
Plugin Plugin
Signatures Details
Signatures added in the bottom of each message.
Yes Yes
Ranks Details
Tags and labels identifying users, depending on different criteria (posts count, credits, moderation levels...)
Plugin Plugin
Unread Topics
Once connected, a user could know which are the topics he has never read.
Yes Yes
Bookmark Threads
List of interesting topics and posts in user profiles.
Yes Yes
Email Notifications Details
Receive an email when messages are posted in followed threads.
Yes Yes
Export private messages
All private messages could be downloaded by users.
No No
Payment Subscriptions
Paying Membership Subscription.
Unknown Unknown

Various Phorum features are quite poor, but this matches the speed requirement of this software. Live chatting and smileys for example are typically features than can slow down a lot a forum, by loading multiple contents (for images), and eventually need some reloading (with or without AJAX) (for chatting).

Security & Spam Protection

Security & Spam Protection
Captcha Protection Details
Captcha protects your forum against spam bots.
Example: Syndicate
Plugin Plugin
Words Filtering Details
Offensing Words are automatically replaced.
Plugin Plugin
Guest Posting Details Yes Yes

Hacking & Vulnerabilities Reports

Vulnerabilities Advisories Criticality

Secunia Criticality

Secunia Advisories severity affecting Phorum.

Vulnerabilities Impact

Secunia Impact

Secunia Advisories impact affecting Phorum.

Customization

Customization
Plugins Details
Add new features to your forum installation.
Yes Yes
Themes Details
Modify the style of your forum easily.
Yes Yes
Cache System
Cache pages to optimize bandwidth and load times.
Unknown Unknown
Custom BBCodes Details
Add new custom BBCode keywords (packs, web interface,...)
No No
Custom Emoticons
Add new custom Emoticons (packs, web interface,...)
Yes Yes
Custom Thread Icons
Add new custom Thread Icons (packs, web interface,...)
Plugin Plugin
Custom User Profile Fields
Add new fields to user profile, to know more about them, and specialize your forum.
Yes Yes
User Accounts Integration Details
Do users be able to log in with their corporate, Google, Facebook,... accounts?
CMS / Blog Bridges Details
Integration with existing Web publishing tools.
  • Drupal
  • WordPress
Template Engine Details
It is easier to theme a forum using a known template engine (more docs & examples,...).
  • Custom Template Engine

The Phorum integration has a dedicated forum discussion in the Community Forum of Phorum. Unfortunately, we was not able to test integration with other softwares, so do not hesitate to report any success story about integration of Phorum with another web tool.

The Phorum software has an huge additional modules list.

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