Forums

A forum is a tool utilized by many websites for community communication as well as an organized way to promote discussions and questions/answers for company products and services.

List of Current Features:

Administration

1. Unrestricted access for group 'administer forum'
2. Security system integration
3. Multiple custom private/public forum setups possible
4. Multiple administrator levels possible
5. Super-users can reply to locked threads
6. Admin-configurable directories for forum images - making it possible to change icon sets in seconds
7. System wide disable abilities for:
* BBCode
* Smilies
* Online status indicator
* User ranks
* Registered-date display
* Post counts
* Signatures
* (user) Post counts
* (forum) Thread + post counts
* Auto-greeting for new forums (whether or not a new forum will have a new post inserted by default)
8. Thread splitting/merging
9. Post moving between threads
10. Moderator access per-forum allows trusted users to help monitor posters

Forums

1. Multiple forums and subforums are possible
2. Forums are lockable
3. Forum listing includes forum title, number of threads within that forum (and any subforums), number of
4. Posts within that forum (and any subforums) and a link to the last post within that forum (or any subforum)
5. On the fly forum creation, deletion and moving
6. Forums and Threads are easily recognizable by different icons alongside their titles

Threads

1. Threads can be subscribed to by replying to them, and unsubscribed in the users's drupal control panel
2. Threads are lockable and stickyable (is that a word?)
3. Forums and Threads are easily recognizable by different icons alongside their titles
4. Thread listing denotes new threads, locked threads, stickied threads and hot topics
5. Thread listing includes thread title, creator, number of replies, number of views and a link to the last post in each thread
6. Threads with new posts are denoted by distinct icons

Posts

1. Post displays are in line with the 'accepted norm'
2. Online status indicator
3. User ranks available
4. Display of avatars alongside posts
5. Join date, post count, and user avatar display
6. New Post page allows for insertion of certain BBCode, and has a formatting tool bar as an aid
7. BBCode includes: QUOTE, CODE, IMG, URL, B(old), I(talic), U(nderline), RANT and more
8. Preview Post option
9. Editing of own posts (withing an admin-configurable time frame) is possible, and super-users can edit any post, at any time
10. Editing of posts creates extra information directly below post to show that it has been edited (and when/why)
11. Post-spam protection - Admin-configurable timeout prevents users from (accidentally?) posting more than one message in a given time frame
12. Signature support for the built-in signatures

Themes/Images

1. Smiley lists available and customizable
2. Fully customizable icon set - can be replaced with any other set you wish. Note that the default icons have an Unreal Tournament slant to them as www.unreal.ie is a UT site.
3. Forum Module is completely CSS customizable

General

1. "Latest posts" block allows for the last $num posts to be posted on any forum (that a given user has access to) to be listed in a block on a normal page ($num is admin-configurable)
2. Quick key support added for various buttons, eg: Alt+p = Preview, Alt+s = Submit, Alt+b = bold, Alt+i = italic
3. Window title contains current forum, or thread, or 'new post' to help to distinguish between history items and multiple windows
4. Forum searching is possible, and is secured via the same security system mentioned above

The price for our feature is a one time fee of $50.00 and a $5.00 per month fee.