FUDforum
FUDforum is a free and open source Internet forum software produced by Advanced Internet Designs Inc. The name “FUDforum” is an abbreviation of Fast Uncompromising Discussion forum. It is comparable to other forum software. FUDforum is highly customizable and has a large feature set relative to other forum packages .
FUDforum runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP programming language, including Unix, Linux and Windows systems. To store its data, FUDforum relies on either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite. The interface is based on XHTML with CSS, jQuery and AJAX to provide a more flexible user interface.
The code is released under the GNU General Public License and Internet sites can use the software royalty-free.
Requirements
FUDforum requires the following components to function:
A web server that will run PHP like the Apache Web Server or Microsoft’s Internet Information Services;PHP versions 4 (4.3.0 and above) or 5;A database like MySQL 4 or 5, PostgreSQL or SQLite. SQLite is supported via PHP’s PDO driver.
Features
Some of FUDforum’s more important features include:
The software supports an unlimited number of members, forums, posts, threads and attachments.Ability to load USENET and E-mail list messages and sync forum replies back to these groups and lists.Customizable theme system based on templates.Translated into several languages (including German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and several other languages).Search engine friendly URL’sFlood control and Captcha spam protection.Blacklisting of users and IP blocking.Messages can be stored within the database or on filesystem for extra performance.Topics can be listed in flat or threaded mode.User Avatars.Private messaging system.Poll creation.Built-in search engine.RSS-feed syndication.Message and Quick Reply editors that support BBCode, HTML and Smilies.User, Moderator and Admin Control Panels.A permission based user/group management system.A plugin system that can be used to extend the forum’s functionality.
Integration
A Mediawiki extension and Drupal CMS module is available to provide FUDforum integration. FUDforum can also be integrated with systems like DokuWiki and eGroupWare (not with eGroupware version 1.6).
Custom integration of third party tools can be achieved via FUDforum’s provided API, called FUDAPI.
Security and vulnerabilities
The current version of FUDforum doesn’t have any known security vulnerabilities.