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IV. Features:
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- Full
featured bulletin board system.
- A
fully featured control panel for easy configuring of YapBB after it has
been installed.
- Full
configurability, server-side.
- Many user
options using a cookie-based system.
- Design
your own templates for a completely new look for your installation of
YapBB.
- YapBB
contains an advanced and speedy in-house designed template engine, PSPCooker.
- Different
authentication levels.
- Optionally
spread out long topic-lists and topics over multiple pages to save on load
times.
- A complete
set of emoticons for use in messages.
- Special
tags that allows you to mimic HTML functionality ("YBB codes").
- See
which people (who specified their UINs in their profiles) are online on
ICQ (© Mirabilis.com) and send ICQ messages to those persons.
- See
which people are logged in to the board.
- Certain
malicious pieces of texts are automatically filtered out.
- Complete
control over HTML-tags in various fields. This is to prevent users from
deforming the layout of your forum.
- Blocking
of clones. The same email address can't be used for more than one account.
- Blocking
of spammers: lock out certain free web-based email providers.
- Topics
can be shown on the frontpage as announcements.
- Optional
GZIP compression of the output, to save on bandwidth.
- Though
highly optimized for PHP4, YapBB runs on both PHP4 and PHP3.
See the demo forum for an impression of the
possibilities:
http://yapbb.sourceforge.net/forum/