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2016-09-30T15:36:11Z

Reverted edits by 89.178.207.116 (talk) (HG) (3.1.21)

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'''2.2 features'''
*DBMS support
**MySQL
***Version 3.x
***Version 4.0.x (optimised with 4.0.x features)
***Version 4.1.x (optimised with 4.1.x features and MySQLi extension)
**PostgreSQL
**Firebird
**Oracle
**SQLite
**DB2 (Possibly)
**MSSQL
***Native MSSQL extension
***MSSQL over ODBC
**MS Access
*Internationalisation support
**All aspects of phpBB may be internationalised
**Translations are template-agnostic
**Translations may be selected by the user
**Both LTR and RTL locales are supported
**Translated images may be included with translations
*Look & Feel
**Templating
***Templates require no usage of PHP to edit
***Compiled templates are cached for faster execution
***Template features:
****Simple variables
****Nested, looping "blocks"; variables with multiple iterations which contain other variables
****Conditional statements, with expression evaluation
****Inclusion of other template files
****Variable manipulation
*****Variables may be set within the template
*****Variables may be changed within the template
*****Variables may be unset within the template
****If enabled by the administrator (off by default)
*****PHP code execution within the template
*****Inclusion of PHP files within the template.
***Templates may be manipulated from the admin panel. The following facilities are available:
****Editing of templates
****Creation
****Installation
****Exporting (for backups and sharing with others)
****Duplication
****Deletion
***Templates may be stored either in the database or as files
**Imagesets
***Imagesets are groups of images (icons, buttons, etc), to be made available to a template
***Imagesets may be manipulated from the admin panel. The following facilities are available:
****Editing of imagesets
****Creation
*****Creation from filesystem
*****Creation from uploaded images
****Installation
****Exporting (for backups and sharing with others)
****Duplication
****Deletion
**Themes
***Themes are CSS stylesheets, to be made available to a template
***Themes may be manipulated from the admin panel. The following facilities are available:
****Editing of themes
*****"Simple" editing, where the properties of a CSS rule may be set or changed in a manner requiring no CSS knowledge
******For colour selection, a web-safe graphical colour selector is provided
******Selected colours are shown in a preview box when entered
*****Advanced editing, where the properties of a CSS rule may be directly edited in their raw form
*****Creation of custom CSS rules
****Creation
****Installation
****Exporting (for backups and sharing with others)
****Duplication
****Deletion
**Styles
***A style defines the look and feel of phpBB
***Styles are created by applying a theme and imageset to a template
***Styles can be created from any combination of theme, imageset and template
*Forums
**May be created as or set to one of three types
***Normal forum; a normal forum may contain posts, and also may contain any type of forum
***Category; a category may contain any type of forum, but may not contain posts
***Link; a link forum links to a specific URI, and optionally tracks "clickthroughs". Link forums may not contain other forums or posts
**Default styles can be set on a per-forum basis.
**Forums can be given a password, as a simple alternative to the permissions system
**Specific icons may be set to represent a forum
**Descriptions may be set for a forum, containing HTML if desired
**Forums may be locked, to prevent new posts
**Forums may be given specific rules, in the form of a URI or text, which will be displayed on any page within that forum
**Search indexing may be disabled on individual forums, to reduce load
**Topic icons may be enabled or disabled on a per-forum basis. If disabled, the topic icon column in forum display will not be shown
**Administrators may choose whether a subforum should be linked from the index
**Forums may be pruned, to remove topics that have not been "active" in a defined period
***Pruning is set on a per-forum basis
****The time since a topic was last posted in may be used to determine pruning
****The time since a topic was last viewed may be used to determine pruning
****Pruning can be enabled or disabled specifically for the following topic types:
*****Announcements
*****Polls (if they have not recieved votes in the maximum last-posted time)
*****Stickies
****The frequency of automatic pruning may be set
***Pruning may be performed manually or automatically
**The number of topics to display on one page may be set on a per-forum basis.
*Posts
**Posts are organised into sequential sets called 'Topics', which take the name of the first post in the set
***Topics can exist in different states
****Priority states
*****Announcements
******Global announcements are displayed at the top of every page of every forum; they exist in all forums, though remaining only one topic
******Local announcements are displayed at the top of every page of the forum they exist in
*****Stickies are displayed at the top of the first page of the forum they exist in
*****Normal topics are displayed below the announcements and stickies, and sorted by the date of the last post in each topic. Normal topics are split onto multiple pages
*****A time limit can be set on Announcements and Stickies that will cause them to revert to normal topics at the expiration of the time limit, or they can remain forever
****Functional states
*****Polls associate a multiple-choice poll with the topic
******A time limit can be set that will close the poll after a certain duration, or it can stay open forever
******The maximum number of options a user can select can be set for each poll
******The maximum number of poll choices is configureable by the admin
******The ability of users to change their vote can be disabled or enabled for each poll
*****Locked topics may not be posted to or edited, except by users with elevated privilidges
**Locked posts may not be edited, except by users with elevated privilidges
**Posts are formatted with "BBCode"; phpBB comes with the ability to create custom BBCodes, as well as many presets
***Bold text
***Italic text
***Underlined text
***Quotes
****Quotes may be attributed to a person or entity, and the name of that person or entity may in turn be formatted with BBCode
***Code
****Everything except [/code] (the closing tag for the code BBCode) can be displayed within a code tag, including raw BBCode
****Code is displayed in a monospaced font
****Certain types of code (e.g. PHP) can be highlighted
***Lists
****Ordered lists
*****Numerical lists
*****Alphabetical lists
****Unordered lists
***Images
***URLs
****Alternate text can be specified
***Font size
***Font colour
****A colour swatch is provided to choose colours
***Flash embedding
***BBCode can be disabled for individual posts
**Textual smilies, such as :), can be automatically replaced by a graphical icon
***Administrators can define new smilies
***Administrators can import smilie packs
***Users can disable smilies in individual posts

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