Introduction
OpenForum is an opensource forum using the language PHP to run forums on web server.
It is required to run PHP 5 with GD support.
This version of OpenForum does not require any database, it stores all information in the file system as XML files and ordinary directories.
The design philosophy behind OpenForum is based on simplicity, robustness and openness
Installation
In order to install OpenForum, follows the following steps:
- Unpack the zip file in the web site main directory.
- Run index.php in order to install the forum. Installation will start and report the result as web page.
- Create an administrator login as soon as you have installed the scripts in the web server.
Features
Openforum supports the following classes of users:
- administrator: users with full control of the configuration and users
- registered: any ordinary users
- banned: users that are banned, i.e. cannot do any post
- deleted: users that are removed from the system, meaning that they are not allowed to login anymore
Registered users are allowed to perform the following actions:
- view forums
- create a topic
- post items in the topics
- answer to other posts
- search for information in the forums
- view a subset of the profile of the other users
- update own profile
Screenshot
Please click to zoom the user interface:
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