mjohnson/forum

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A CakePHP forum plugin.

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Type:cakephp-plugin

5.1.0 2014-12-09 04:26 UTC

README

A fully robust and powerful CakePHP forum plugin. Integrates with an external user system, support for topic and forum subscriptions, and many more features listed below.

Requirements

Compatibility

  • v3.3 - CakePHP 2.x, PHP 5.3, Composer
  • v3.x - CakePHP 2.x, PHP 5.2
  • v2.x - CakePHP 1.3, PHP 5.2

Contributors

  • Jose Antonio Sanchez - Spanish Locale
  • Kristoffer Darj - Swedish Locale

Documentation

Thorough documentation can be found here: http://milesj.me/code/cakephp/forum

Features

Forums

  • Unlimited Parent and child forums
  • Activity and latest post tracking
  • Auto-locking of old topics
  • Individual settings for reading, posting, replying, etc
  • Access/private specific forums through ACL
  • Create topics or polls
  • Reply to topics, or quote previous posts
  • Topic and forum subscription with email notifications
  • Post up and down ratings

Moderation

  • Moderators, Super Moderators and Admin levels
  • Restrict moderators to specific forums
  • Inline moderation and management
  • Mass processing (Move, Delete, Close, etc)
  • Ability to edit and manage users content

Administration

  • Full admin panel using CakePHP Admin plugin
  • Utilizes ACL for permissions
  • Can add, edit, order, delete all data
  • Manage all reported content
  • Promote, demote, create access levels, staff and moderators
  • Manage all aspects and content

Security

  • Utilizes CakePHPs Auth and Security Components
  • Advanced flood protection (Posts and Topics)
  • Hourly post limitations
  • Registration security wall
  • Form protection against bots and hackers

Miscellaneous

  • BBCode support using Decoda
  • Mark topics as read (Session)
  • Log created topics and posts (Session)
  • Report system for topics, posts and users
  • Search through topics (Title and Post)
  • RSS feeds for each forum