User:Pti/phpBB - Wikipedia

2.2 features

DBMS support
- MySQL
  - Version 3.x
  - Version 4.0.x (optimised with 4.0.x features)
  - Version 4.1.x (optimised with 4.1.x features and MySQLi extension)
- PostgreSQL
- Firebird
- Oracle
- SQLite
- DB2 (Possibly)
- MSSQL
  - Native MSSQL extension
  - MSSQL over ODBC
- MS Access
Internationalisation support
- All aspects of phpBB may be internationalised
- Translations are template-agnostic
- Translations may be selected by the user
- Both LTR and RTL locales are supported
- Translated images may be included with translations
Look & Feel
- Templating
  - Templates require no usage of PHP to edit
  - Compiled templates are cached for faster execution
  - Template features:
    - Simple variables
    - Nested, looping "blocks"; variables with multiple iterations which contain other variables
    - Conditional statements, with expression evaluation
    - Inclusion of other template files
    - Variable manipulation
      - Variables may be set within the template
      - Variables may be changed within the template
      - Variables may be unset within the template
    - If enabled by the administrator (off by default)
      - PHP code execution within the template
      - Inclusion of PHP files within the template.
  - Templates may be manipulated from the admin panel. The following facilities are available:
    - Editing of templates
    - Creation
    - Installation
    - Exporting (for backups and sharing with others)
    - Duplication
    - Deletion
  - Templates may be stored either in the database or as files
- Imagesets
  - Imagesets are groups of images (icons, buttons, etc), to be made available to a template
  - Imagesets may be manipulated from the admin panel. The following facilities are available:
    - Editing of imagesets
    - Creation
      - Creation from filesystem
      - Creation from uploaded images
    - Installation
    - Exporting (for backups and sharing with others)
    - Duplication
    - Deletion
- Themes
  - Themes are CSS stylesheets, to be made available to a template
  - Themes may be manipulated from the admin panel. The following facilities are available:
    - Editing of themes
      - "Simple" editing, where the properties of a CSS rule may be set or changed in a manner requiring no CSS knowledge
        For colour selection, a web-safe graphical colour selector is provided
        
        Selected colours are shown in a preview box when entered
      - Advanced editing, where the properties of a CSS rule may be directly edited in their raw form
      - Creation of custom CSS rules
    - Creation
    - Installation
    - Exporting (for backups and sharing with others)
    - Duplication
    - Deletion
- Styles
  - A style defines the look and feel of phpBB
  - Styles are created by applying a theme and imageset to a template
  - Styles can be created from any combination of theme, imageset and template
Forums
- May be created as or set to one of three types
  - Normal forum; a normal forum may contain posts, and also may contain any type of forum
  - Category; a category may contain any type of forum, but may not contain posts
  - Link; a link forum links to a specific URI, and optionally tracks "clickthroughs". Link forums may not contain other forums or posts
- Default styles can be set on a per-forum basis.
- Forums can be given a password, as a simple alternative to the permissions system
- Specific icons may be set to represent a forum
- Descriptions may be set for a forum, containing HTML if desired
- Forums may be locked, to prevent new posts
- Forums may be given specific rules, in the form of a URI or text, which will be displayed on any page within that forum
- Search indexing may be disabled on individual forums, to reduce load
- Topic icons may be enabled or disabled on a per-forum basis. If disabled, the topic icon column in forum display will not be shown
- Administrators may choose whether a subforum should be linked from the index
- Forums may be pruned, to remove topics that have not been "active" in a defined period
  - Pruning is set on a per-forum basis
    - The time since a topic was last posted in may be used to determine pruning
    - The time since a topic was last viewed may be used to determine pruning
    - Pruning can be enabled or disabled specifically for the following topic types:
      - Announcements
      - Polls (if they have not recieved votes in the maximum last-posted time)
      - Stickies
    - The frequency of automatic pruning may be set
  - Pruning may be performed manually or automatically
- The number of topics to display on one page may be set on a per-forum basis.
Posts
- Posts are organised into sequential sets called 'Topics', which take the name of the first post in the set
  - Topics can exist in different states
    - Priority states
      - Announcements
        Global announcements are displayed at the top of every page of every forum; they exist in all forums, though remaining only one topic
        
        Local announcements are displayed at the top of every page of the forum they exist in
      - Stickies are displayed at the top of the first page of the forum they exist in
      - Normal topics are displayed below the announcements and stickies, and sorted by the date of the last post in each topic. Normal topics are split onto multiple pages
      - A time limit can be set on Announcements and Stickies that will cause them to revert to normal topics at the expiration of the time limit, or they can remain forever
    - Functional states
      - Polls associate a multiple-choice poll with the topic
        A time limit can be set that will close the poll after a certain duration, or it can stay open forever
        
        The maximum number of options a user can select can be set for each poll
        
        The maximum number of poll choices is configureable by the admin
        
        The ability of users to change their vote can be disabled or enabled for each poll
      - Locked topics may not be posted to or edited, except by users with elevated privilidges
- Locked posts may not be edited, except by users with elevated privilidges
- Posts are formatted with "BBCode"; phpBB comes with the ability to create custom BBCodes, as well as many presets
  - Bold text
  - Italic text
  - Underlined text
  - Quotes
    - Quotes may be attributed to a person or entity, and the name of that person or entity may in turn be formatted with BBCode
  - Code
    - Everything except [/code] (the closing tag for the code BBCode) can be displayed within a code tag, including raw BBCode
    - Code is displayed in a monospaced font
    - Certain types of code (e.g. PHP) can be highlighted
  - Lists
    - Ordered lists
      - Numerical lists
      - Alphabetical lists
    - Unordered lists
  - Images
  - URLs
    - Alternate text can be specified
  - Font size
  - Font colour
    - A colour swatch is provided to choose colours
  - Flash embedding
  - BBCode can be disabled for individual posts
- Textual smilies, such as :), can be automatically replaced by a graphical icon
  - Administrators can define new smilies
  - Administrators can import smilie packs
  - Users can disable smilies in individual posts