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IceBB Review Available

By lastnico, March 29, 2007 - 09:46 |
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IceBB Test and Demonstration are now available on Forum-Software.org.

This vBulletin and Invision Power Board competitor tries to challenge proprietary softwares. The review will help you to see if this open source alternative could fulfill your needs.

You can consult it here :

The next step will now be the Drupal 5 migration of Forum-Software.org, which should takes many times, so, unfortunately, do not expect in the next weeks other reviews...

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IceBB Review

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Install: PositivePositive (Easy) — Admin: PositivePositive (Easy)
Use: PositivePositive (Easy) — Themes: Yes Yes
Our Opinion : FullFullHalfNoneNone — Users : FullFullHalfNoneNone (Rate it)
By lastnico, March 23, 2007 - 00:52 |

Brief Description of IceBB

Released under : GPL License.
Current version : 1.0-rc5 (December 22, 2006).
Live Demonstration : IceBB Demo.
Web Site : http://www.icebb.net
Download here : IceBB.
Installation : PositivePositive (Easy)
Administration : PositivePositive (Easy)
Forum Using : PositivePositive (Easy)
Our Opinion : FullFullHalfNoneNone
Users : FullFullHalfNoneNone (Rate it)
More details about rating...

From IceBB website :

IceBB is a powerful, fast, free, and open-source forum solution powered by the free PHP and MySQL. IceBB scales well, no matter how many users or posts, due to its clean and efficient code. It is also fully customizable, with full skin and language support, plus a powerful admin control center.

IceBB also comes with a great community, willing to help you with any problems you encounter, in English, Spanish,or French.

Some of IceBB's features include:

  • RSS feeds
  • Favorite topics and forums
  • Optional calendar
  • Optional portal
  • Private messages
  • Search
  • Unlimited subforums
  • Redirect forums
  • Powerful admin control center
  • Inline moderation
  • Multi-quote
  • Full localization support (language system, full Unicode support)
  • Full feature list

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
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Systems storing forum datas.
  • MySQL

IceBB is another classical LAMP alternative to PhpBB. The goal of the IceBB, according to its authors, was to create a free alternative to expensive Invision Power Board and vBulletin forum software.

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 AJAX
HTML / XHTML Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those HTML norms.
Based on XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
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
Conformance to AA level.
AA
This software respects W3C Norms Details
Does this software correctly follows (X)HTML and CSS norms.
Yes Yes.
Localization Details
The forum software exists in several languages.
Yes Yes.

IceBB respects W3C norms, and uses some Scripaculous / Prototype features, which makes it sexy to use and see.

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

IceBB has not a lot of integration features currently. Authors seems to focus their time to fix bugs and release the 1.0 version.


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IceBB Demo

By lastnico, March 23, 2007 - 00:52 |
Demonstration

Demonstration

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

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.

Administration Panel

The Administration Panel is available here : http://demo.forum-software.org/icebb/admin/

Accounts and Passwords

Administrator login / password
admin / demo
Moderator login / password
moderator / demo
User login / password
user / demo

Additional Notes

  • No additional notes.
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