A new Forum

All posts for one topic are stored on the same topic page. A breakpage function is used to break the page into smaller chunks, after n number of posts.

Posts can be quickly deleted using Fox's deletelinks.
Topic pages can have titles with special characters, dots etc.
Linebreaks are honoured in posts.
Posting markup directives is not enabled.
Error warnings are in place.
text in the textbox is preserved in case an error occurs and posting was not possible.

Display templates are on one page for easier editing.
They can be choosen from ForumConfig, or set from config.php, or authors can set their own preferences on their Profiles pages.

A ForumX version is included, which creates a forum where each post is stored on a separate page.

See Cookbook:FoxForum

Features

• one page per topic, or one page per post with the ForumX forum.
• topic name can include spaces and special characters.
• one forum per group, multiple fora possible.
• display layout of messages (posts) via templates, independent from posted content pages.
• possibility of different layout for first post (topic post) and subsequent posts (comment posts), useful for blogs.
• styling of display layouts via stylesheet, default classes included in fox.css (see Cookbook:Fox), colour integration with Gemini , FixFlow and Triad skins.
• author can set display preferences on the author's Profiles page.
• author can set email address and website url, as well as personal info including an avatar image on the author's Profiles page.
• individual posts can be deleted.
• post counter.
• access code field to prevent spam bots postings. Cookbook:Captcha could be integrated.
• subject (subheader), text and author name field.
• automatic breaking of page into subpages with easy navigation.
• easy creation of fora with different names (each in a different group).
• possible mail notification using Cookbook:FoxNotify, in various formats, including whole post content could be mailed to list of subscribers.

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