Administration - Forums edition

### Forums edition

This function will allow you to manage your Forums.
The first list displayed is actually a representation of the active categories and forums on your site.

#### Forum Editing:

A second page is displayed with the list of forums present in the category.
You can add a forum:

- Index: in the same way as for blocks, it is the possibility of classifying your different forums.
- Forum name
- Forum description (don't be too long)
- identification of the moderator(s) (required): if there are several moderators for the same forum, separate the names with , (commas).
- Access level for PUBLICATION:
  - Anonymous publication authorized
  - Registered user publication only
  - Moderator publication only
  - Closed (the forum is closed to any new publications or modifications)
- Forum type: Public, Private, PHP Script, Extended Text, Group or Hidden
  - Public = access to all
  - Private = password access
  - PHP Script=Forum for storing and displaying code (php, perl, c, ...).
    Be careful, some things don't work with this forum (Smilley, ...)
  - Extended text = Allows you to associate a SFORM form with a forum
  - Group = Allows you to associate a forum with N member groups
  - Hidden Text = visible only to members
  - The following Field takes different values:
    - Password (if Private Forum)
    - The name of the form file (if Extended Text Forum)
      in modules/sform/forum (for example: form.php)
    - The identifier of the member Groups (if Forum Group) separate the names with , (commas) // example: 5,12,56
- Forum mode: Standard or Tree
  - Tree mode allows specific management (tree structure) of posts but may require a certain amount of computing power
- Attachment: If in Administration / Forum Configuration, the option "Enable uploading in forums" is Yes, you can specify whether you authorize attachments for this forum .

To redirect to an external forum (a kind of link), simply enter a URL in the Forum Name!

Sub-Forum:
A forum whose name begins with <!> will not appear in the list. A meta-word allows you to obtain the reading status of a forum: forum_subfolder(forum_number).
Examples:

- imagine a forum whose number is 3 and whose name is: "<!>Just for NPDS"
- Imagine in the comment area of forum 1 a text like this: forum_subfolder(3) <a href="viewforum.php?forum=3">Just for NPDS</a>

You can edit a forum to modify it.

You can delete a forum (confirmation message).

#### Add a category:

Allows you to add a category in which you can insert forums. Click Add to finish.

#### Edit category:

Allows you to modify the category: its title AND its ID (which allows you to classify the categories). Click Ok to finish.

#### Clear category:

This function allows you to delete a category, all attached forums as well as all contributions.
A confirmation message is still displayed...

NPDS - Administration manual