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A fully robust and powerful CakePHP forum plugin. Integrates with an external user system, support for topic and forum subscriptions, and many more features listed below.

Requirements

• PHP 5.3.0
  • Multibyte
• CakePHP 2
  • Utility Plugin v1.4.0 - https://github.com/milesj/Utility
• Composer

Compatibility

• v3.3 - CakePHP 2.x, PHP 5.3, Composer
• v3.x - CakePHP 2.x, PHP 5.2
• v2.x - CakePHP 1.3, PHP 5.2

Contributors

• Jose Antonio Sanchez - Spanish Locale
• Kristoffer Darj - Swedish Locale

Documentation

Thorough documentation can be found here: http://milesj.me/code/cakephp/forum

Features

Forums

• Parent and children forums
• Activity and latest post tracking
• Auto-lock old topics
• Enable/disable post count increments
• Individual settings for reading, posting, replying, etc
• Access/private specific forums
• Create topics or polls
• Reply to topics, or quote previous posts
• Topic and forum subscription with email notifications

Moderation

• Moderators, Super Moderators and Admin levels
• Restrict moderators to specific forums
• Inline moderation and management
• Mass processing (Move, Delete, Close, etc)
• Ability to edit and manage users content

Administration

• Full admin panel using CakePHP Admin routing
• Utilizes ACL for permissions
• Can add, edit, order, delete all data
• Manage all reported content
• Promote, demote, create access levels, staff and moderators
• Manage all aspects and content

Security

• Utilizes CakePHPs Auth and Security Components
• Advanced flood protection (Posts and Topics)
• Hourly post limitations
• Registration security wall
• Form protection against bots and hackers

Miscellaneous

• BBCode support using Decoda
• Utilizes remember me features using AutoLogin
• Mark topics as read (Session)
• Log created topics and posts (Session)
• Access level verification
• Report system for topics, posts and users
• Search through topics (Title and Post)
• RSS feeds for each forum