Simple Bulletin Board 1.57 2010-01-17

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New since V1.57: Small security update, instructions can be found here

New since V1.56: Small watch topic / watch forum bugfix

New since V1.55: User management is now part of the Board Administration, ability for the board admin to send messages to all users, added password forgotten function, added watch topic function, added watch forum function, ... more infos in the changelog further down

New since V1.5: SEO links and titles, board can be categorized with different forums, online Board Administration, search function – all updates can be found further down in the changelog – New including procedure

New since V1.46: Eliminated quoting troubles with consideration of PHP magic_quotes (will be bypassed now)

to update from V1.45 to V1.45.1 just follow this instructions: click here

New since V1.45: captcha alternative w/o GD necessity but the same lookalike
extended and improved BB-Code support
more infos to the profiles on topicview
BB-Code support for signatures

New since V1.4: Doublepost-Prevention
Ability to create sticky topics
Ability to lock and unlock topics
Templates are more CSS controlled

New since V1.3: Avatars can be uploaded by users to their profiles
Signatures can be defined by the users

New since V1.2: Editing of posts for Amins and Mods
Increased the flexibility of the paging function

New since V1.1: CAPTCHA protection for registration
Page turning function for the topics overview

I’m using a framebuster for the demo to leave the TF-frame, cause there could be some troubles with Sessions and Frames of different domains

An easy to implement bulletin board for your homepage. Just add a view lines to one of your php-sites (e.g. myforum.php) and you have the board integrated to your website.

You are able to manage your members (activate, deactivate, delete them, edit them), nominate members to moderators or administrators, ...

It’s really new and reacts and wishes are welcome to improve the SBB .

Features

• Protecting forum from non-registered users
• Enable/Disable registration since V1.5
• Online board Administration since V1.5
• Enable/Disable user to user messaging since V1.5
• SEO links and titles since V1.5
• Categories (forums) for your board since V1.5
• Overall search function since V1.5
• Protecting from doubleposts caused by reloading or double-clicks or smthg. else since V1.4
• Topics can be made to sticky ones since V1.4
• Threads can bed locked (closed) since V1.4
• enable/disable CAPTCHA -protection for registration (thx phpcaptcha.org -> GD Library with GIF Support required) since V1.1
• GD-CAPTCHA alternative, for those their server doesn’t support the GD-Library – same lookalike since V1.45
• enable/disable/set number of topics per page since V1.1
• Avatars can be uploaded by users to their profiles since V1.3
• Signatures can be defined by users since V1.3
• Own templates can be defined
• PNG -sources for the buttons are integrated
• Users can register themself and are able to post topics immediately after registration and logging in
• Administrators can make users to Administrators, Moderators and Default users
• Moderators are able to delete posts, delete complete topics, activate/deactivate/edit/delete users
• Users can enable/disable board and user notifications
• Users can contact other users via the board (if notification enabled)
• Users will be notified if one of their active topics got a new post
• BB-Code for topics and posts is implemented
• English and German language support (can be changed in the config-file)
• Ready to add more languages
• ...

Examples of integration

• http://mac.homac.net/projects/TF_SimpleBB/index.php

Boardadmin

username: admin
password: pass

Current Version Simple Bulletin Board 1.57 2010-01-17

Update instructions are included

Updates V1.57 2010-01-17

• Small security update
  Now it’s not possible to add own HTML or JS Codes
  Update instructions can be found here

Updates V1.56 2009-12-29

• fixed watch forum / watch topic bug
  was accessible for non-logged in users too – no impact but unattractive

Updates V1.55 2009-12-26

• Already documented avatar width bug fixed
• Added image dimensions to every image in the templates to prevent of some IE troubles
• The usermanagement is now part of the board administration
• Added ability for board admins to send a message to all active users
• Added forgotten password function
• Added watch topic / watch forum function
• Moderators can edit users through the users profile
• Some small fixes
  - Redirecting to active forum after deleting topic
  - Redirecting to active forum after lock/unlock topic
• Ability to disable/enable avatars

Updates V1.5 2009-12-03

• Most settings can now be defined in the Board Administration and are stored in the database
• Fixed relative path calculation for Windows machines
• Added ability to define maximium width of images in posts to prevent breakout of the content
• Added posibility to enable/disable registration of new users
• !!! New integration method for the sbb into your site !!!
• Enabling/Disabling user messaging boardwide
• Enabling/Disabling board notification
• Added SEO option (can be enabled/disabled) – requires mod_rewrite
  Most of the links will be transformed into search engine friendly ones
• Now categories (forums) can be defined within the board
• Added Board description
• Added more infos for user (website, interests, birthday (age), place of residence, occupation)
  Information can be found next to posts, and in profiles
• Added ability to quote posts by one click
• Added overall-search function

Updates V1.46 2009-11-05

• Fixing troubles with magic_quotes, double_escapes
  PHP magic_quotes will be no longer supported with PHP 5 .3
  so SBB now will check if magic_quotes are enabled or not and uses mysql_real_escape_string for SQL -Queries

Updates V1.45.1 2009-10-19

• Small bugfix
  More information can be found here

Updates V1.45 2009-10-15

• Added CAPTCHA alternative for servers which doesn’t support GD-Library
• Improved and extended BB-Code support
  Now supporting

        [b][/b] ... bold
        [i][/i] ... italic
        [u][/u] ... underlined
        [list][/list] ... list
        [list][*][/list] ... list
        [*] ... element of list
        [quote][/quote] ... quoted text
        [code][/code] ... codeblock
        [img]URL[/img] ... image
        [url]URL[/url] ... url
        [url=URL]DESCR[/url] ... url with description

• Signatures supports BBCode now too
  all BBCodes, expect the [url]-BBCodes,
  cause SBB detects links and make them clickable within the signatures
• Added total posts and joining date to poster’s info (below avatar) on topic view

Updates V1.4 2009-10-08

• Re-coded the default-template
  Almost all Style-definitions are now controlled by the template stylesheet
  Expect some margins, floats, widths, heights
• Protecting from doubleposts caused by reloading or double-clicks
• Ability to make single topics sticky
  Sticky topics are marked and ranked at the top in the topic overview
  Can be set by moderators and administrators
• Ability to lock and unlock topics
  Locked topics are marked in the topics overview and cannot be extended till the topic is unlocked

Updates V1.3 2009-09-24

• Added signature function
  now the users can create their own signatures which will be shown below the user’s posts
  URLs in Signature will be transformed into clickable links
• Added avatar upload function
  users can upload their avatars
  allowed max-dimensions of the allowed avatars can be defined within the conf.php
  avatars will be shown next the username in topic views and profile views
• new setup routine

Updates V1.2 2009-09-18

• Increased the flexibility of the paging function
  e.g. for page 7 of 21:
  1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 21
• Added possibility to edit posts
  currently only available for ADMINs and MODs
• Updated CSS -file from the default template
  all definititions are only assigned to the CSS -ID sbb – this should prevent from overruling parent style definitions
  the ‘old-styled’ CSS -file is still included (V1.2)
• Some small fixes

Updates V1.1 2009-09-17

• Added CAPTCHA protection for the registration of new users (thx phpcaptcha.org -> GD Library with GIF Support required)
  Can be enabled/disabled within the config file
• Added topics-per-page option
  The value can be set in the config file
• Some small fixes

1st Release V1.0 2009-09-15

hope you like it

bye
mac

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