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Beehive Forum Demo

By lastnico, July 9, 2006 - 16:44 |
Demonstration

Demonstration

 http://demo.forum-software.org/beehiveforum/

Please click on the banner to go to demonstration site.

Do not hesitate to modify, delete, customize and add anything to correctly test this software.

Accounts and passwords

Administrator login / password
ADMIN / demo
User login / password
USER / userdemo

Additional Notes

  • The logins are not case sensitive.
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Your opinion on Beehive Forum

By lastnico, July 9, 2006 - 16:44 |
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Beehive Forum Review

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Install: Negative (Hard) — Admin: Positive (Normal)
Use: Positive (Normal) — Themes: Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullHalfNoneNoneNone — Users : FullFullFullFullNone (Rate it)
By lastnico, July 9, 2006 - 16:44 |

Brief Description of Beehive Forum

Released under : GPL License.
Current version : 0.6.3 (February 12, 2006).
Live Demonstration : Beehive Forum Demo.
Web Site : http://beehiveforum.sourceforge.net/
Download here : Beehive Forum.
Installation : Negative (Hard)
Administration : Positive (Normal)
Forum Using : Positive (Normal)
Our Opinion : FullHalfNoneNoneNone
Users : FullFullFullFullNone (Rate it)
More details about rating...

From Beehive Forum web site :

Beehive Forum Features

  • Frame-based layout, for easy navigation.
  • Reply-to-user posting and e-mail notification.
  • Powerful HTML posting, without security risks.
  • Extendable user profiles.
  • Flexible relationships system.
  • Private Messaging system.
  • Multiple style options, including dyslexia support.
  • Advanced word-filtering facility.
  • Comprehensive user permissions.
  • Full, easy to use admin tools.

Server Architecture

Features Details
Operating Systems Details
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • 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
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Systems storing forum datas.
  • MySQL

Beehive Forum only works on a MySQL database, and does not use the PHP independent database connectivity API. This is not a specifical problem but more and more PHP softwares should really migrate to this system.

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 Frameset HTML.
Frameset HTML
Stylesheets (CSS) Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those CSS norms.
Based on CSS 2.
CSS 2
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.

Frames are really outdated in our Web 2.0 century, and however, Beehive Forum uses them.

More over, Beehive Forum uses its own DTD file, which complies with W3c norms, but very strange for interoperability.

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
Upgrade Method
How this forum software could be upgraded
CMS / Blog integration Details
Web publishing tools which can be integrated with this software.
None
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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