General Features
- Built using PHP and MySQL
- Comprehensive templating system, so you can customize the forum appearance
- Advanced permission and user management
- Supports multiple languages at the same time
- Open and well-documented source code
- Tracking of new and old unread topics
- Designed for optimal performance and scalability
- Supports all sizes and types of output: XHTML, XML, RSS and WAP
- Easily install modifications using a Package Manager system
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Security
- Session based authorization system
- Administrative actions always require the admin user's password
- Major actions are time and IP locked, preventing 'hammering'
- Limited Login attempts prevent password dictionary attacks
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Forum Settings
- Ability to display page creation time and query count per page
- Forum maintenance mode, allowing only admins to login
- Full or Partial word censoring
- Ability to break up long words
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Boards and Categories
- Group boards into collapsable or non-collapsable categories
- Reorder boards within categories, or reorder categories
- Create child boards under other boards
- Assign moderators to boards
- Limit board access by user group
- Configure permissions for each membergroup on the board level
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Member Features
- Optionally require registration before forum access
- Optionally require a user to agree to terms before they register
- Optionally require user email authentication on setup
- Optionally require a moderator to approve registration
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Navigation and Authentication
- Several security checks during navigation
- Password reminder system
- Both cookie and session based authentication
- Adjustable expiration time for authentication cookies
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Member Tracking and Tracing
- Sortable and searchable public and private memberlists
- Show all (error) messages and IPs made by a member
- Show all (error) messages from an IP address or range
- Statistics
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Banning
- Ban members based on their username, email address, IP address or hostname
- Support of wildcards for email address, IP address, and hostname
- Include a ban reason in bannings (viewable for the banned user)
- Include a ban note (only viewable by the admins)
- Chose between full ban, 'no post' ban, or registration ban
- Include an expiration time for bans
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With AssortedInternet.com Web Hosting, setting up an SMF forum on your web site is easy. Just use our Control Panel software! To install SMF, just follow the simple on screen instructions and your SMF message board will be installed, and ready to use.
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Please Note
(*) Since SMF requires a MySQL database, only web hosting plans that include MySQL database support can utilize the SMF feature. If you are unsure if your plan includes MySQL database support, please contact support via the Online Helpdesk for assistance.