Features we are adding to this forum

[SaintHax]

We are not moving to the new software as planed we are upgrading this software as well as I'm going to be doing some re-coding myself the new features are listed below...

- Subforums, unlimited subforums have been introduced. You can nest these as far as you like. Each can be made postable or non-postable (which effectively equates to an old category) and assigned styles (hopefully!) and different permissions.

- Topic icons, a topic can now be assigned a unique icon ... we intend to make this admin controllable on a per forum basis.

- Non-parsing of URLs in posts, you can now specify whether to automatically parse URLS in posts. In addition a new message parser reduces the size of all output URLS to prevent rendering issues, e.g. w3w.something.somewhere.here.com/hello/image.jpg may become w3w.something.som...image.jpg

- Altered method of poll entry, while the system in 2.0 allowed simple entry and control of poll options it required submission every time an option was added. This was a rather unecessarily "intensive" operation in our view. So in 2.2 a simple textarea box is being used, one line = one option. Hopefully we'll also allow basic BBCode, images, etc. to be parsed in each option

- Updated and extended admin panel. One of the complaints levelled at 2.0 was a limited admin panel. In actual fact these limitations were somewhat "made up" in that 2.0 either had the option or simply didn't require it. However, in 2.2 the ACP has been greatly extended with numerous new options and functions. These include;

+ a user pruning system,
+ updated backup/restore (inc. backup/restore from local, server based file),
+ disable COPPA,
+ disable user registration completely,
+ limited editing time,
+ fulltext word size limiting (both min and max word size),
+ maximum chars per post
+ maximum number of smilies per post,
+ timed bans,
+ admin and moderator action logging,
+ new server, board and related controls (e.g. session limiting, load limiting, disable email boardwide, disable board message, IP validation extent, etc. etc,
+ authentication plugins (allowing username/password authorisation via the phpBB DB user table, LDAP, Apache realm or anything else.
+ and more (plus others to come)


* "Events", allowing the admin to define situations applicable to users and usergroups, e.g. "Usergroup X inherits Rank Y after Z days", "User A gains B forum permissions after C posts"

* Admin definable BBCode, a limited number of tags will be completely definable by the admin (you'll need knowledge of regular expressions to make use of this!)

* Attachments (i.e. per post attachments, editing of existing attachments, admin control panel module, etc.)

* Improved Private Messaging system, user definable folders, forwarding, send to multiple recipients, "archive" via email

* Admin definable profile fields

* Improved usergroup facilities, assign ranks, avatars, colours to all members of usergroup, prevent/allow user to select which usergroup settings apply to them (for users in multiple groups)

* Improved Moderator Control Panel, new features such as merge, find duplicates, whois info, forum permission control, notes, moderation queue

[Chief]

cool....whens this going too happen?

[SaintHax]

sometime around the first of the year

[Cozmo D]

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