Message Boards (Forums) Module

This message board system is one of the most robust systems available today. The best way to get a feel for it's usability and feature set is to demo it at www.duddingtonplace.com. For the sake of this proposal, the functions and features available at this website will serve as the 'included functionality' for this module. Any modifications of functionality may result in additional fees. So please play around with this demo thoroughly and make sure it works exactly how you would want your message board/forum to work. (Note that the colors, design and formatting are not considered to be the functionality) Your forum would of course be customized to match your site and not necessarily look like the implementation at www.duddingtonplace.com. Below are some feature highlights:

• Security
  • Designed with security as a priority
  • Powerful and extensive authorization system
  • Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
  • Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions
• Unlimited Forums & Categories
  • Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like
  • Private forums and those only for specified user groups
  • Powerful search facility
• Posting Messages
  • Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
  • Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
  • Polls can be simply added to posts
  • Email notification of replies to your topics
  • Powerful topic subscription capability
  • Original emoticons to portray emotions
• Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions
  • Powerful forum, user and group permission management
  • Control forum access to specified user groups
  • Control all aspects of the posting experience
  • Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options
• Member Features
  • Unlimited members
  • Personal profile creation
  • Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
  • Email-like private messaging system
  • Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars
• Moderation Features
  • Topic editing
  • Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
  • Topic splitting
  • Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis
• Easy to Use Administration Centre
  • General configuration
  • Forum & category setup
  • Easy database backup and restore
  • Disallowed usernames
  • User authorization
  • Word censoring
  • Complete member management
  • Emoticon setup
  • Optional new post verification
  • Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
  • IP tracking of posts and posters
  • Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator