bttlxeForum Features

bttlxeForum 2.0 is an entirely new product from the original bttlxeForum software, supporting amongst others the following features:

 

General

• Software-based installer that can download the latest version and configures the scripts for uploading to your web server.
• Support for installation in multiple languages
• Templates/Themes can be applied with one click to totally define the visual appearance of the forums. Custom templates are easy to create to slot the forums into your existing web site design.
• Confirmed to work in the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Opera (dynamic views behave as normal views in all but Internet Explorer 4.0 or later)
• Can currently use SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft Access to store its data
• Unlimited number of members, forums, groups and messages
• Full classic ASP/Jscript source code provided
  

 

Forums

• Active User list listing who's currently in the forums
  
• User definable forum views, ranging from the more traditional threaded views to the tree based views as used here on CodeProject
  
• Polls can be inserted with new threads
  
• Can be made private (only visible/accessible to members of a certain group)
  
• Collapsible forum categories
  
• Authors can choose to be notified by e-mail when they receive replies
  
• Forum Code (similar to safety-restricted HTML mark-up) can be used to enhance messages
  
• Toolbars for emoticons and common Forum Codes are shown when posting a message using a supported Internet browser
  
• Can be searched for keywords by forums, by user or by category
  
• Allows moderation rights to authorised members
  
• Protection against message flooding
• Entire threads or individual messages can be deleted or locked by moderators
• Bad word censor

 

Groups

• Group moderators can add and remove members from a group
  
• Can be given permissions ranging from forum moderation to restricted forum access (which can be used to hide forums from non-members)
  
• Can be either public or private (private group members are not viewable)
  
• Private Messages can easily be sent to all group members
  

 

Users

• Can be of either Member, Moderator or Administrator user account types (which are granted forum-wide permissions respectively)
  
• Private Messages can be sent between users
  
• Can include Instant Messaging details in their public profiles
  
• Can include a photo, biography and web site link in their public profiles
  
• Can define a display name to be their public name instead of their account name
  
• Can define a custom signature to be used in their messages
  
• Can choose not to have their e-mail address shared with other members (the default)
  
• Must activate their accounts before they can use them to validate e-mail addresses
  

 

Administration

• If it exists it can be configured
  
• Users can be viewed, updated and deleted
  
• Forums can be created, updated and deleted; categories can be defined
  
• Groups can be created, updated and deleted; group moderators can be assigned
  
• Members can be added to groups and groups can be granted permissions in forums
  
• Forum-wide settings such as the installation name, settings, mail server, default forum view, etc, can be set
  
• Old member accounts can be purged from the database, either if they have not been used in the last year or if they were created but not activated within the last week
  
• Automatic forum updating - one click will check if an update is available and let you download it immediately
  

 

Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2000/ Windows XP Professional/Windows Server 2003 (Windows XP Home is not supported).
  
• Microsoft IIS v5.0 or newer
  
• Microsoft SQL Server v2000 (or MSDE 2000) database or Microsoft Access 95 or later database (additional database types are planned and can be supported)
  
• Approximately 2mb hard drive space for web files (source code and image files)